Apr
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer gained Cabinet backing Wednesday for his Orderly Return Bill. The plan will go to parliament for debate, and could pass before the summer recess. However, German states do not all approve of the plan which would see asylum seekers who are to be deported being held in state jails rather than pre-deportation holding […]
Apr
The German government has approved the export of certain military equipment and technology to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at a secret meeting of the Federal Security Council, the Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing documents of the country’s economic affairs ministry. According to the newspaper, Saudi Arabia will not receive German-made military […]
Apr
Among Germany’s nearly 4.5 million Muslims, around 3 million are of Turkish origin. Almost 90 percent of imams in Germany are educated outside the country. The majority of them come from Turkey. The German Islam Conference, convened by Germany’s interior minister since 2006, set a goal last November to address the education and financing of local imams. […]
Mar
The protection of the Constitution should be allowed to save according to the will of the German interior Minister, Horst Seehofer (CSU), in the future, information about radicalised children. This is yet prohibited. Situations where it comes to children, shall be now held in the files of the Federal office for the protection of the […]
Mar
Berlin wants to sever the financial and institutional ties between local Muslim communities and the Turkish government as part of a bold campaign to help German Muslims develop a homegrown version of Islam. “What we need now is an Islam for German Muslims that belongs to Germany,” Markus Kerber, the top civil servant in the German interior […]
Mar
The deportation of refugees under EU law from northern European countries to their southern counterparts has come under criticism in recent years. The court ruled however that such deportations were justified under the ‘mutual trust’ principle. The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Germany can more easily deport asylum seekers to other European […]
Mar
A giant in BMW’s Facting Garching move near Munich had banned Turkish staff from speaking Turkish. 7 workers from 50 different nations who worked in the factory banned the ban from Turkey. According to the newspaper Bild, workers on the barrier from speaking Turkey were even in social areas. The factor was only allowed to […]
Mar
The Bavarian constitutional court on Monday rejected an appeal by an Islamic religious community to overturn a ban on judges and prosecutors wearing headscarves, saying that justice officials in particular were obliged to be neutral in questions of religion and ideology. The judge voiced the opinion that the ban, which also forbids officials to wear […]
Mar
For foreign clergy who wish to work in Germany, to be proof of German language skills according to the will of the government of the future obligation. The government is planning to do a corresponding Change in the entry conditions, said a spokesman for the Federal interior Ministry of the German press Agency. The design […]
Mar
Officials in Germany have defended their decision to seize an indebted family’s pet pug and sell it on eBay, saying the move was a last resort because authorities were unable to find anything else to take. The incident in the western town of Ahlen prompted criticism on social media from people who felt the decision […]
