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Following the approval of billions in compensation for the Rhenish operator RWE due to the coal phase-out, there is growing concern in the Brandenburg state parliament about disadvantages for the.
The surge of the Alternative for Germany party has shaken the country’s political establishment. But for mainstream conservatives, it has also prompted an acute identity crisis.
The CDU is pushing for firm controls on the german-Polish border, but Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser rejects this. Instead, surveillance in trains and air traffic is now to be expanded. In Germany, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) registered 110,516 first-time asylum applications in the first four months of the year, a good 78 percent more than in the previous year. Most of the applicants came from Syria and Afghanistan. According to the European statistics agency last week, more than 40 percent more initial applications for asylum were made in the European Union at the beginning of this year.