A simmering standoff between the government and a vocal advocate for Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after World War II has forced Erika Steinbach to withdraw her candidacy for a key post in a memorial foundation.
The United Nations' refugee agency has expressed praise and criticism for Germany's refugee policy. Although Germany took in more than 2,000 Iraqi refugees from Syria and Jordan in 2009, Romani were deported to Kosovo.
The German government plans to make the acceptance of foreign academic qualifications easier for immigrants, Education Minister Annette Schavan told daily <i>Passauer Neue Presse</i> on Wednesday.
The German governmentâs newly proposed âintegration contractâ for immigrants could be a step forward â but only if its a two-way commitment, argues Der Tagesspiegelâs Jost MĂŒller-Neuhof.
The government is planning to institute "integration contracts" for immigrants to encourage them to become contributing members of the countryâs society, Germanyâs integration commissioner announced on Monday.
The vast majority of Turkish immigrants in Germany think their adopted country should do more to accommodate them, according to a new study released on Thursday.
Heinz Buschkowsky, the mayor of Berlinâs multicultural Neukölln district, tells Sandra Dassler from Berlin daily <a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a> why he thinks the German governmentâs plans to introduce a new âhome-careâ subsidy for children opting out of day care could have disastrous repercussions.
An elementary school in Berlinâs multicultural Wedding district has announced it will offer a class with a âGerman guaranteeâ to keep the overwhelmingly immigrant student body from deterring enrollment.
Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor made a last-minute decision to seek asylum in Germany on Monday after she was warned she might be arrested back home for showing a film critical of the regimeâs human rights abuses. The daughter of a top advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to The Local about what comes next.
Some 10 years after the Kosovo conflict, thousands of Kosovar refugees â most of them from the Roma community â are set to return home, daily <i>SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported this week.
Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin was stripped of some of his responsibilities on Tuesday in a symbolic protest of anti-immigrant comments he made last month.
The leader of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD) Kenan Kolat said Tuesday that non-Muslim schoolchildren should be allowed out of school for an important Islamic religious holiday.
Half of Germans agree with controversial remarks by federal bank board member Thilo Sarrazin, who said that most Arab and Turkish immigrants are âneither willing nor able to integrate,â a poll revealed on Sunday.
The former head of German humanitarian organisation Cap Anamur was acquitted Wednesday of charges of encouraging illegal immigration by bringing 37 Africans into Italy aboard a ship.
Germanyâs next government should speed up the process for granting citizenship to immigrants, according to a new report by a group of migration experts.
Just days before Germany's election, the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) have sent racist letters to politicians of multicultural background declaring they should leave the country, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported on Tuesday.
Continuing a series of interviews with parliamentary candidates with non-German backgrounds, The Local speaks with Social Democrat Ravindra Gujjula, an Indian-born doctor and mayor in the eastern state of Brandenburg now running for the Bundestag.
Continuing a series of interviews with parliamentary candidates from non-German backgrounds, The Local speaks with Christian Democrat <b>Kees de Vries</b>, a former Dutch dairy farmer running for a Bundestag district in Saxony-Anhalt.
Another 144 Iraqi refugees are on their way to Germany on Tuesday as part of a European Unionâs plan to welcome some 10,000 asylum seekers from the country.
In an attempt to combat a looming shortage of skilled workers, German industry will begin actively recruiting apprentices who have immigration background, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Monday.
Berlin had the highest concentration of immigrants in 2008, welcoming 13 new people for every 1,000 residents, a report from the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.
Thousands of blank travel documents, stamps and official seals from the offices of four Berlin district administrative offices have been stolen, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported this week.
When a group of Roma and Sinti started camping out in Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg at the end of May, media chaos broke out. Leftists took them in, then turned them over to a church; the church turned them out and the authorities dithered helplessly before finally putting them in temporary accommodation in Spandau.
Germany needs more ethnic minorities in its political system, the police and its courts, and has to do more to tackle racism in daily life, a UN special rapporteur said on Wednesday.
