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Germany warns of Second Wave of Immigration Bigger than 2015
Europe may soon face a massive inflow of refugees and migrants that will be even bigger than at the peak of the infamous crisis, Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has warned, urging to assist Greece and Turkey.
“We must do more to help our European partners with controls on the EU external borders. We have left them alone for too long,” the minister told German Bild am Sonntag newspaper...
Germany to Italy: "Open your ports to the 3rd world!"
Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer has called on his counterpart in Italy, Matteo Salvini, to reopen the country’s ports to migrant transport vessels as NGOs increase their people-trafficking operations off the Libyan coast.
Seehofer, an open borders politician, has asked Italy’s national populist interior minister why he has closed his country’s ports when most of the migrants eventually...
Malta Admits German NGO Boats Loaded With Migrants
After weeks of waiting, 49 North African refugees on two rescue vessels have received permission to disembark.
Germany has agreed to accept 60 refugees in total amidst ongoing political wrangling within the EU.
Malta has announced that two German NGO rescue ships will be allowed to enter port after being stuck in limbo for weeks in the Mediterranean.
The Sea Watch 3 and the Professor Albrecht Penck...
‘I would join protests if I wasn’t minister’: Merkel interior chief Seehofer on Chemnitz unrest
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s interior minister has said he would have taken to the streets to protest the killing of a German man in Chemnitz if he wasn’t a minister – and has branded immigration the “mother of all problems.”
Leader of the CSU – the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU – Horst Seehofer has spoken out about massive riots in the city of Chemnitz, where...
Germany's Seehofer Delays Resignation Amid Clash With Merkel on Migration
German Interior Minister and head of Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) Horst Seehofer said Monday he had postponed his resignation, which he threatened over dissatisfaction with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy.
“I have said that I would resign from both jobs, that I would do it in the next three days. And that, nevertheless, we have made another step toward reaching...
Merkel on brink in Germany, ‘facing Mutiny’ over disastrous migrant policy
Angela Merkel is facing a potential mutiny over her mad, dangerous open door migration policy.
As Westmonster reported earlier this week, Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, was due to unveil a new 63 point “migration master plan” which was kicked into the long grass after a falling out with the Chancellor.
Merkel disagreed with sending migrants back to the border if they had already been registered...
Europe Worried New Syria War Could Lead to New Refugee Crisis
The Interior Minister of France Gerard Collomb and German Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer have expressed concern that U.S. led airstrikes in Syria against the Assad regime could fuel a new wave of mass migration to Europe.
The two Interior Ministers expressed their concern Thursday during a meeting in Paris with Seehofer saying, “We both would like the conflicts to be solved diplomatically...
Bavarian PM Threatens to Sue Berlin if Merkel Fails Control German Borders
Bavaria’s migration-skeptic Prime Minister Horst Seehofer said Saturday that he would file a lawsuit in Germany’s Constitutional Court if Chancellor Angela Merkel fails to restore contol over Germany’s borders.
Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in October to take the federal government to court if it did not manage to curb the record inflow of refugees into the...
Merkel defends state premier's controversial integration statements
Merkel defended Seehofer's comments which seemed to be against more Muslim immigrants.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Bavarian state premier, Horst Seehofer, after he called for restrictions on the number of Turkish and Arab immigrants to Germany. Merkel said he was misconstrued.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the state premier of Bavaria’s controversial call for...
Senior German politician calls to stop Muslim immigration
Christian Democratic Union party leader stirs controversy following racial remarks; says ‘we don’t need additional immigrants from ‘foreign cultures’.
A German official on Saturday called to stop Muslim immigration into the country, stirring public controversy.
Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CSU), which is a member of the coalition government in...