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Germany is to start returning asylum-seekers to Greece from mid-March, effectively ending a five-year suspension of transfers, according to reports.

Under the so-called Dublin regulations migrants must seek asylum in the European Union member-state they first arrived in.

At the German government’s daily press conference the ministerial officials are coming under huge pressure to explain why Anis Amri was able to move freely in Germany and plan his attack under the nose of authorities, particularly following the emergence of the footage showing that he was monitored entering an Isis (Islamic State)-associated mosque in Berlin on 14 and 15 December and again leav

Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation for offences including assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve with the perpetrators of sexual assaults yet to be identified, Germany's interior ministry said Jan. 8.

A German official on Friday more-or-less revealed something that has been an “open secret” amongst European law enforcement and news media in recent months: roughly one-third of asylum seekers arriving in Germany and claiming to be from Syria hail from other countries.