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German immigration

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    German politics
    Germany upsets its neighbours with border clampdown

    Berlin plans to carry out checks at all land frontiers in a bid to stem illegal migration

    German Federal Police officers are seen stopping a white van on a highway along the border with Poland. The officers are in high-visibility vests and black uniforms.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Germany to cut benefits for refugees facing deportation

    Measures, which include a ban on knives at public events, follow outrage over terror attack in western city last week

    People hold banners that read ‘Direct democracy’ and ‘No to mass immigration, yes to remigration’ in Solingen, Germany
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    German politics
    German chancellor Olaf Scholz urges talks on tougher immigration policy

    Call for dialogue with opposition and regions follows deadly knife attack by a suspected Syrian national

    Far-right protesters hold a banner as they march through the streets of Solingen, Germany on August 26 2024
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
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    Knife attack puts immigration top of German political agenda

    Far right seizes on arrest of Syrian immigrant suspected of killing three people ahead of regional elections

    Herbert Reul, Hendrik Wuest, Olaf Scholz, Tim Kurzbach, and Mona Neubaur stand at a makeshift memorial for the victims at the site of a knife attack in Solingen, western Germany, on August 26, 2024. The memorial is adorned with flowers, candles, and messages.
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
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    Far right Alternative for Germany seizes on crime perpetrated by Afghan migrant to stoke fear

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  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
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    German chancellor weighs in on far-right ‘remigration’ ideas

    Olaf Scholz responds to reports of AfD politicians secretly meeting Austrian white supremacist

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  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
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    Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni  and Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama shake hands at Chigi Palace in Rome
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    German politics
    Olaf Scholz seeks ‘pact for Germany’ to stave off far right

    Bitter immigration debate has pitted Scholz’s coalition and opposition parties against each other

    German police officers frisk a group of migrants near Forst on the Polish border.
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Germany to tighten immigration rules amid rising support for far-right

    Government seeks to make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers who are still in the country

    People wait to enter a registration centre for asylum seekers in Berlin, Germany
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    EU immigration
    Elon Musk wades into German-Italian migration spat

    Billionaire spars publicly with Germany’s foreign ministry on his social media platform

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  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    News in-depthGerman politics
    German far-right party surges on immigrant ‘dystopia’

    Alternative for Germany is stoking anti-migrant sentiment in the town of Görlitz — and nationwide

    Sebastian Wippel speaks at an AfD election campaign event in Görlitz
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    EU immigration
    Germany suspends voluntary deal to take in migrants arriving in Italy

    Berlin says Rome is not meeting its obligations under the EU’s Dublin asylum rules

  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    German politics
    Regional CDU leader calls for Germany to restrict right to asylum

    Saxony’s prime minister claims constitutional change to limit numbers of arrivals would help avert the rise of the far right

    Saxony’s prime minister Michael Kretschmer
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Laura Pitel
    German regions debate cost of a liberal refugee policy

    After witnessing the pressures on Turkey, I find it hard to hear of a wealthier nation worrying about integration

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Germany
    Germany faces repeat of 2015 refugee crisis as 1mn Ukrainians seek safety

    Figure exceeds number of migrants who arrived in the country in 2015-16

    Ukrainians fleeing the war arrive in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘Hybrid identities’: why Germany is updating its citizenship rules

    Sponsors of the bill say the idea of having ‘only one homeland is completely outdated’

    Naturalized people stand with black-red-gold umbrellas in front of the Saxon state parliament after the naturalization festival
  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    EU immigration
    ‘The system is overwhelmed’: Europe confronts fresh migrant influx

    Surge comes on top of the arrival of millions of Ukrainian refugees

  • Friday, 20 August, 2021
    News in-depthGlobal migration
    European leaders fear repeat of 2015 crisis with Afghan refugees

    Politicians fear large numbers of asylum seekers could give a boost to rightwing populism

    Afghan refugees in eastern Turkey
  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    FT Wealth
    The German scion who sees it as his duty to house refugees and young offenders

    ‘Property entails obligations,’ says Tobias Merckle, an heir to a pharma fortune who lives in the prison he founded

  • Sunday, 20 September, 2020
    News in-depth
    German towns unite to offer refugees shelter from the storm

    Safe Harbour movement wants to take in more asylum seekers but issue is political minefield

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    EU immigration
    Germany to take in 2,750 migrants from Greek camps

    Merkel set to restart EU debate over relocation of asylum seekers following fire on Lesbos

    Asylum seekers left homeless on Lesbos after a fire destroyed the Moria camp where 13,000 people had been living
  • Thursday, 2 April, 2020
    German economy
    Germany lifts coronavirus ban on seasonal workers

    U-turn comes after agricultural lobby criticises move and retailers warn of food shortages

    A worker covers asparagus plants at a farm in Beelitz, east of Berlin
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    News in-depthGerman economy
    Germany’s thirst for workers reveals a paradox in its slowdown

    Labour market remains solid despite economy going into reverse

    epa06710663 A worker seen at a construction site of an apartment building with the European Central Bank, ECB, on the background, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04 May 2018. Official German statistics for 2017 state housing prices in Frankfurt rose from 3.034 euro per square meter in 2012 to 5.110 euro per square meter in 2017, making it the third most expensive cities to live in Germany after Munich on first and Stuttgart on second position leading the list. EPA-EFE/MAURITZ ANTIN
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2019
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Lingering divide: why east and west Germany are drifting apart

    Economic disappointment and historic grievances fuel anger ahead of crucial elections

    People walk along the embankment of river Spree next to the remains of the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery during a sunny warm day in Berlin, Germany, February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RC13B5F61EC0
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    German radical right threatens the survival of democracy

    Some domestic security agencies appear unwilling or unable to tackle the threat of extremism

    FILE PHOTO: An honour guard made of Police and Federal Armed Force officers stands next to the coffin of the Kassel District President, Walter Luebcke, during his funeral at the St. Martin Church in Kassel, Germany, June 13, 2019. Swen Pfoertner/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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