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Republican U.S. presidential frontrunner Donald Trump branded Angela Merkel?s welcoming of migrants to Germany ?insane? and said the policy will only spark riots in the country.

?What?s happening in Germany, I always thought Merkel was, like, this great leader,? Trump said in comments aired Oct. 11 on CBS?s ?Face the Nation.?

The historic joint appearance of French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the European Parliament in Strasbourg is still in progress.

German ARD TV network was accused of racism after broadcasting a photoshopped image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel garbed in a headscarf as she stood in front of a mosque. The image was used as a backdrop to a debate on immigration during the show Report from Berlin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a hot contender for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize after opening her country’s doors to refugees fleeing from war. German tabloid Bild declared that the German leader had a good chance of entering the ranks of nobel laureates due to her response to Europe’s migrant crisis and the situation in Ukraine.

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has said no member state could be imposed to set up a migrant hotspot.

Kuneva has told the Bulgarian National Television's Friday weekly program Panorama that hotspots are "an opportunity to show solidarity" - points where Frontex officials will be additonally deployed to help process migrants' personal data and asylum requests.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated her position that Europe had to improve EU border controls, especially with Turkey, arriving at the EU extra-ordinary Summit on the migration crisis, Wednesday. “We must see how to improve the protection of our borders, how to set up the right refugee reception centers”, she said.

During a joint press conference with Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sipila, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged EU member-states to ‘respect their moral obligation’ and offer their support Greece in guarding her borders from the influx of refugees and migrants.

Angela Merkel has "rejected the notion that Germany encouraged yet more migrants to set off toward Europe by sending welcoming signals to refugees."

The German chancellor said on Tuesday that "the images that went around the world weren't of her but of ordinary Germans welcoming people to stations in Munich and elsewhere earlier this month."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s weekly video message on Saturday urged refugee women arriving in Germany to learn the language and make new contacts. She said that refugee women “have often experienced terrible things and are also traumatized” upon entering Europe.

As we have written in a past article, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has managed to gain a spot in the hearts of many refugees entering Germany.