Angela Merkel Under Fire in Bavaria - BBC Newsnight

Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Bavaria where German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under fire over her refugee policy.

Steve Hilton: Merkel Accepted Refugees for Personal Vanity

Dec. 21, 2016 - 2:54 - Fox News contributor says the German chancellor's policy is 'incredibly irresponsible' for the whole world

German MPs Slam Merkel’s Refugee Policy ahead of Re-election Bid

Angela Merkel is expected to announce her bid for a fourth term as Germany's leader today. That's ahead of her party's annual congress, where it's thought she'll outline her strategy for winning the 2017 election.

Merkel Walks Tightrope on Refugee Policy | DW News

Speaking before the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her refugee policy, which has been attacked from both the left and the right. Her party lost to the AfD in regional elections in her home state. Can she restore public trust?

Merkel Vows to Stick to Open-door Policy, Faces Uproar

Germany’s online community has been in a furor since Chancellor Merkel said she will still stick to an open-door policy for refugees, maintaining Germany is still “safe,” despite the recent deadly attacks there, most of which were committed by migrants.

Merkel Must Go! Germans Plan ‘Huge’ Demonstration over Leader’s Open-door Asylum Policy

EXPRESS: GERMAN activists are planning to hold a “huge” protest in Berlin tomorrow against Angela Merkel’s open door asylum policy.

Thousands are expected to gather in the capital’s historic Washington Square for an anti-immigration rally, where they will be addressed by right-wing politicians. News of the gathering is being spread under the hashtag #Merkelmussweg - meaning Merkel must go - which has been used more than 1,500 times in 24 hours reaching hundreds of thousands of people.

Police are preparing for crowds of around 5,000 people from across the country to gather in the capital city from 3pm, with counter-demonstrations by anti-fascist groups also expected.

The march is being organised by a coalition of anti-immigrant groups in Germany, where fears have been stoked by a succession of terrorist attacks carried out by refugees. » | Nick Gutteridge | Friday, July 29, 2016

Merkel's Last Stand? Chancellor Running Out of Time on Refugee Issue

The mood in Germany is rapidly shifting, and
Chancellor Merkel is under fire.

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Angela Merkel has repeatedly said that it will take time to solve the refugee crisis. But impatience is growing, particularly following the sexual assaults in Cologne. Voices of discontent are getting louder and the chancellor's hold on power may be weakening.

The most unusual tribunal in the republic meets around 25 times per year, usually on Tuesdays in the gray-panelled conference room on the third floor of the Reichstag where conservative parliamentarians often meet. At the front sits the defendant, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her accusers sit at the long rows of tables before her, the three or four dozen back benchers who are increasingly adopting the tone of a public prosecutor when addressing Merkel's refugee policies.

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But then came New Year's Eve in Cologne, and since then everything has changed -- both in Merkel's party and across the country. The occasionally shrill debates in talk shows, on the Internet and on the streets have become even shriller. Among politicians in Berlin, calls for something to be done have grown both in number and volume. And within the population, where attitudes toward Merkel's policies have for months wavered between sympathy and skepticism, concerns are growing: Will the effort to integrate more than a million refugees overwhelm German society? Can the government still guarantee the safety of its citizens? Is the state failing?

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But Merkel has failed to promptly impose order on the streams of refugees flowing into the country. Now, even her supporters are concerned that her plan for a European solution to the problem could fail. Former allies, such as the government of Sweden, have reintroduced tight border controls. Conservative German Constitutional Court justices such as Udo Di Fabio and Hans-Jürgen Papier have accused Merkel of making grave mistakes. And even a center-left paper like the New York Times, which for much of 2015 couldn't praise Merkel's refugee policies enough, recently published a column describing her course as a "high-minded folly." Read the whole article » | By SPIEGEL Staff | Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Germany: AfD Protest Merkel's Refugee Policy in Wildbad Kreuth

Around 100 supporters of the eurosceptic Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) (Alternative for Germany) party rallied in Wildbad Kreuth, Wednesday, to protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government. Merkel is in the town for the party conference of her Bavarian sister party, the CSU, which UK Prime Minister David Cameron is also attending. Party delegates are due to discuss potential caps on immigration into Germany and the results of Merkel's hitherto, more open policy.

The protesters rallied across the street from behind barriers holding signs reading "Merkel must go," and demanding new elections, while the police stood on the other side of the road. Upper Bavaria AfD regional chairman Mario Buchner gave a speech condemning Merkel's asylum policy and the country's sometimes-open borders.

Close The Borders: Angela Merkel's Own Party Turn On Leader's ‘Open Door’ Refugee Policy

EXPRESS: GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing another mutiny in her own party after politicians demanded Germany closed its borders to asylum seekers.

More than 40 politicians in Merkel’s Christian Democrat Party signed a petition to close its doors to refugees following the sex attacks in Cologne.

The chancellor has come under intense pressure to change her “open-door” policy after it was revealed asylum seekers were among suspects in the vicious New Year’s Eve attacks.

More than 650 women have now come forward to file criminal complaints over the attacks, around 45 per cent of them for sexual assault. » | Charlie Peat | Thursday, January 14, 2016

Refugee Policy U-turn: Merkel to Limit Asylum Seekers Inflow

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had previously welcomed refugees, said on Sunday in an interview to the country's ARD channel that the flow of migrants needs to be limited.

Geert Wilders: “We Should Not Have to Pay for the Stupidity of Angela Merkel"

Hundreds of Germans Are Trying to Bring Treason Charges agaist Angela Merkel over Migration Policy

BREITBART.COM: Hundreds of Germans are attempting to bring criminal charges against Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of treason by opening the borders of Germany to mass migration.

The Federal Prosecutors office in Karlsruhe, Germany, has received over 400 letters calling for it to open an investigation into Chancellor Merkel, the elected leader of the German government for high treason. The complaints cite the chancellor’s decision to open the borders of the nation to all comers in September, since when they claim “an unhindered flow of refugees have poured into Germany”.

Under German law, anyone who attempts to affect change to the German republic or damage the constitutional order by force or threat of force is guilty of high treason. The letter, of which dozens more are received by the state prosecutor every day and is reproduced by Compact magazine, insists the migrant flood satisfies the conditions, as demographic change is altering the existence of the republic. » | Oliver Lane | Thursday, October 29, 2015

Germany: Thousands of AfD Supporters Rally against Merkel's Refugee Policies

An estimated 4,000 people attended a rally opposing Germany's refugee policy on Wednesday in the city of Erfurt.