An honor guard at the coffin of the murdered German politician Walter Lübcke during his memorial service this month in Kassel, Germany.CreditCreditSean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN — The death threats started in 2015 when Walter Lübcke defended the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her conservative party, he would go to small…
An honor guard at the coffin of the murdered German politician Walter Lübcke during his memorial service this month in Kassel, Germany.CreditCreditSean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN — The death threats started in 2015 when Walter Lübcke defended the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her conservative party, he would go to small…
An honor guard at the coffin of the murdered German politician Walter Lübcke during his memorial service this month in Kassel, Germany.CreditCreditSean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN — The death threats started in 2015 when Walter Lübcke defended the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her conservative party, he would go to small…
Many EU member states did not agree with her refugee policies, others criticized her austerity stance. Brussels now regards Angela Merkel’s step-by-step withdrawal as a chance for new beginnings, says DW’s Bernd Riegert. For many observers in Brussels, the twilight of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship in Berlin, which has now begun with her decision not to run again for…
A Syrian refugee at a German Railway training workshop. Critics of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy said that her permissiveness would cripple the country, as the incomers—more than 1 million asylum seekers since 2015—couldn’t contribute to society by getting jobs. Figures released today by Germany’s federal labor agency, however, showed that 306,574 asylum seekers had…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a statement prior to a meeting in Berlin with conservative and Social Democratic party leaders. Jorg Carstensen/AFP/Getty Images It has been more than 100 days since Germany headed to the polls — but the next handful of days might matter more than all of them combined. Since late September —…