InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/06/09
The number of people seeking asylum in Germany has increased with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Last month there were more than twice as many applicants as in the same period in 2020.
German authorities said this week that there were 8,278 new applications for asylum in May, with 950 follow-up applications. A year earlier, according to statistics published by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the number of initial applications was significantly lower, at 3,777 applications. The rise is attributed to the lifting of restrictions which were in place during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.
Impeachment Trial: American Democracy vs. GQP Authoritarianism
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Impeachment Trial: American Democracy vs. GQP Authoritarianism
my edits):
As the Senate readies for yet another Donald Trump impeachment trial and prepares to judge the former president’s conduct,
senators also may be voting on a much bigger question: American democracy versus
GQP authoritarianism.
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Because, while Trump is charged specifically with inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,
his and his allies’ and supporters’ own words show that the assault was the culmination of a months-long attempt to overturn the election he lost and included a discussion of invoking martial law.
What US-Europe relations under Biden may look like
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Stephen Fidler
, The Wall Street Journal
Among other things, the new administration likely will halt a Trump plan to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany
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After four years of turbulence, this could be a year for rebuilding trans-Atlantic diplomatic ties.
The new U.S. president brings to the job long experience in European relations, and a nominee for secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, who is deeply knowledgeable about the Continent as well. The policy priorities of the incoming president, compared with the stated goals of his predecessor, also are more closely aligned with those of America’s traditional European allies.