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German Interior Minister blocks states from taking refugees from Greek camps

August 13, 2020 Politics, Refugees Comments Off on German Interior Minister blocks states from taking refugees from Greek camps

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has blocked individual German states from rescuing refugees from Greek refugee camps. The state governments are up in arms and are considering legal action. Several of Germany’s 16 states are considering banding together to defy the federal government’s plan to block them from bringing in refugees …

German Asylum plan: Greece & Italy to keep carrying the migration burden

February 8, 2020 FEATURED, Greece 4

Greece and Italy will keep carrying the whole burden of migration should the European Union approve the German asylum reform plan that wants asylum-seekers to be stuck for a long period of time in the countries considered as “EU’s external borders.” On Friday, the German coalition government partners have agree …

Germany prepares new Asylum regulation focusing on EU’s “external borders”

October 30, 2019 Politics, World 1

German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer (CSU) is promoting a new EU Asylum legislation plan aiming to scrap the Dublin Regulation and have future asylum-seekers stay out of Europe, Seehofer’s central idea is that asylum procedures start in the countries at the EU external borders and end in other EU states. …

CSU chief Seehofer : “Bavarians ruled Greece, better it was not temporary”

October 9, 2018 Greece Comments Off on CSU chief Seehofer : “Bavarians ruled Greece, better it was not temporary”

It was supposed to be a joke from man to man, from a Bavarian arch-conservative to his like-minded compatriots. One of these brusque and disdainful jokes cracker-barrel men in traditional green tracht garments exchange over a half-liter beer at their regular’s Thursday pub table in a remote mountain village. But …

German-Greek deal on refugee returns advancing but not easy

August 14, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on German-Greek deal on refugee returns advancing but not easy

Talks between Germany and Greece on a deal for refugees returns are fairly advanced, said Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, highlighting that an agreement with Italy still has some time yet. “We are in the process of negotiations,” she said during a joint press conference she gave in Berlin with …

Merkel & Seehofer agree on “migrants’ transit centers” in the borders with Austria

July 3, 2018 Uncategorized Comments Off on Merkel & Seehofer agree on “migrants’ transit centers” in the borders with Austria

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and her rebellious interior minister from Bavarian CSU, Horst Seehofer, reached a compromise on migration at almost literally the eleventh hour Monday, averting a government crisis for the time being. Mr. Seehofer, who threatened to resign the previous day, will stay in office. The two agreed …

Kurz calls for an “Axis of the Willing between Rome-Berlin-Vienna” to combat migration

June 14, 2018 Refugees Comments Off on Kurz calls for an “Axis of the Willing between Rome-Berlin-Vienna” to combat migration

Austria’s conservative chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, called for an “axis of the willing” between Rome-Berlin-Vienna” in order to fight illegal migration. A new Axis of Evil like in 1940? For sure the word choice with the terms axis and willing burdened with ugly connotation and war is not a fortunate one. …

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