Germany has sent goods worth more than €1.5 million to Greece to help address the recent influx in refugee and migrant numbers there. However, the German government rejected requests to take in any of the 100,000 asylum seekers stuck in Greece.
An 81-year-old landlord advertised that he would only let his property to Germans. Discrimination is an under-punished problem in the real estate market.
Berlin's mayor Michael Müller has announced that the German capital is willing to take in 70 unaccompanied migrant children and young people from the Greek island of Lesbos.
Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer wants to continue the border checks he introduced in November after a prominent Lebanese clan member managed to travel to Germany despite a re-entry ban. In recent weeks, police caught almost 180 foreigners with entry bans during border checks. To fight criminal clans, the interior ministry also plans to intensify the residence law.
Germany's state interior ministers have agreed not to send rejected asylum seekers back to Syria for at least another six months, saying the country is still too dangerous. But they plan to lift some restrictions on deportation in the longer term.
Germany has deported another group of rejected asylum seekers from Afghanistan back to their home country. 44 men arrived in Kabul on Wednesday - the 30th group to be deported in the past three years.
A German nonprofit is tutoring children in underserved communities through an innovative live-in mentoring program. The Duisburg-based organization is the winner of this year's prize for civic engagement in Germany.
The German Foreign Ministry says risks are still too great to send migrants back to Syria. But Germany's state interior ministers have said they have agreed to return felons convicted of serious crimes.
The German-based private rescue organization Sea-Watch announced that as of December 5 it was registered under the German flag. The organization said it had “insufficient confidence” in the Netherlands as a flag state.
Under international law, ships have a clear duty to help those in distress at sea. But when the ships are run by non-governmental organizations, and the people in distress are migrants, there are very often questions about what is 'the right thing to do'. The German news agency epd asked a maritime law expert for some answers.
The regional government of the German state of Bavaria introduced a law requiring migrants to respect the "leading" local culture. Now, opposition party complaints it violated the constitution have been upheld.
After nearly ten years in Germany, athlete, professional mechanic and refugee Mansor Farah wants to become a citizen in his new home country. There’s just one problem – he has no official identity.