Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has defended a controversial bill that would give police new powers to help them combat terrorism. Schäuble told the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, that the proposed measures were absolutely necessary to protect the country from terrorist threats. Among other things, the legislation would allow the Federal Crime Office to spy...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday
European Union interior ministers are discussing plans to accept more Iraqi refugees. The French presidency of the EU is hoping to encourage more member states to increase their voluntary refugee intakes from Iraq, though there are no plans to set quotas. German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has expressed enthusiasm for accepting more persecuted Iraqi Christians, however most EU...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... official said.The government’s intervention, however, was mainly dictated by security concerns. Wolfgang Schäuble, interior minister, had been worried that the company’s technology and the personal data it holds on German citizens could pass to the wrong owner.The concerns about misuse of the data were heightened this year when it emerged that Deutsche Telekom, another privatised...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has signed a repatriation agreement with his Syrian counterpart Bassam Abdelmajid in Berlin. Schäuble said the agreement provides a basis for sending back not only Syrian nationals required to leave Germany, but also nationals of other countries and stateless persons who have the right to be in Syria. He said this would make a significant...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
... Angela Merkel's cabinet planned to discuss the matter later in July. Last week, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Labor Minister Olaf Scholz presented an "action plan" on easing immigration to their colleagues in the governing left-right coalition. According to the plan, university graduates and skilled workers would be granted unlimited residency status after working in their...
European Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... illégale et encadrer l'immigration légale», a insisté le ministre de l'Intérieur allemand, Wolfgang Schauble.Member States are invited to "resort to common procedures to ensure the removal of illegal aliens", such as biometric identification of illegal immigrants or use of joint flights. Although this turn of the screw is condemned by NGOs, the EU assumes full responsibility for it....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... into a bunker, but we are steering migrant flows in the world," said the German interior minister, Wolfgang Schäuble.The French scheme aims to make it easier for the EU to attract highly qualified immigrants to fill labour shortages in Europe, to beef up policing of the EU's borders, to establish common European refugee and asylum policies by 2010, and to expel illegal immigrants.But...
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The station legally broadcasts from Denmark. ----- Germany has banned a Kurdish television station from broadcasting in the country because it promotes the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said late on Tuesday. Schäuble said that Danish-based Roj TV was a PKK "mouthpiece" and also ordered the closure of a production house based in the...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In Germany, opposition parties have raised objections to plans by the government to grant police more powers to monitor homes and telephones. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says the draft law would strengthen the means available to Germany's Federal Crime Office (BKA) to investigate terrorist suspects and fight international crime. The German minister stressed the perceived threat...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
After Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, a split began to emerge Sunday in European capitals over whether to press Dublin to hold another vote - with an implicit threat to consign the Irish to an outer tier of the European Union should they say no again.Wolfgang Schäuble, the German interior minister, said there was clear support for "the continuation of the process of European...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
... EU of "core and periphery", first mentioned in the 1990s by her predecessor as CDU leader, Wolfgang Schäuble, now interior minister.Dr Merkel's coalition partners the Social Democrats (SPD) did not mince their words about the Irish vote. SPD foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called it a "severe setback" while a party colleague called it a "catastrophe"."With all respect for...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
German opposition parliamentarians have criticised plans by Christian Democrat Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to introduce a Germany-wide citizenship test for would-be immigrants in September. Green party politician Josef Winkler has called the test a "pretend solution to a pretend problem", while the Free Liberal Democrats said a good knowledge of the German language was more important....
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the draft law would strengthen the means available to Germany's Federal Crime Office, known as the BKA, to investigate terrorist suspects and fight international crime.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet has approved legislation that would give federal police more powers to spy on suspected terrorists. It would allow the Federal Crime Office to spy on personal computers and use video surveillance, but only after the approval of a judge. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who is a key backer of the measures, told reporters in Berlin that the...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The German government has urged restraint in response to a recent spying controversy at Europe's largest telecommunications group, Deutsche Telekom. After meeting with Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann and other managers, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told reporters in Berlin that new legislation was not needed. Several parliamentarians have called for amendments to existing laws,...
