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German, Austrian Interior Ministers To Hold Talks In Jordan

Germany’s acting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser headed to Amman to discuss migration and security issues with Jordanian government representatives. Faeser, who was accompanied by Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner, would meet with their Jordanian counterpart Mazin al-Farrayeh and Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi in Amman on Wednesday afternoon. The visit came after U.S. President Donald Trump…

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Green Candidate For German Chancellor Rejects Plagiarism Allegations

Two weeks before Germany’s parliamentary election, the Green Party candidate, Robert Habeck, on Monday rejected accusations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. In a video message on social media, Habeck, who is vice chancellor and economy minister, said that an investigation by the University of Hamburg cleared him of scientific misconduct. Allegations of plagiarism are…

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German Conservatives Question European Union’s Asylum System

Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is questioning the effectiveness of the European Union’s current asylum system amid the country’s ongoing migration policy debate. CDU lawmaker Thorsten Frei criticised the EU-wide agreement known as the Dublin Regulation, which stipulates that in general the country the refugee first enters is responsible for processing their application for…

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