During the International Fireworks Festival in Scheveningen, England won the title 'most beautiful fireworks show' during the country battle. Eight countries had entered into battle at the 39th edition of the event.
Russian President Putin speaks Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday evening in her official residence, the castle of Meseberg north of Berlin. This dialogue is the first they hold in Germany since relations cooled in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the uprising in eastern Ukraine. Merkel began her fourth reign in March and Putin was re-elected in the same month. In May, Merkel visited Putin in Sochi.
President Vladimir Putin is going to a wedding in Austria this weekend. The Kremlin has confirmed, according to Russian media, that Putin is attending the wedding ceremony of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl for his talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in southeastern Austria.
An 18-year-old Afghan who wanted to apply for asylum in Austria because he would not be accepted as a homosexual at home received a rejection. Reason: 'The way you walk, behave and dress you do not indicate in any way that you could be gay.'
A drug gang that operated from the Netherlands, among others, has shipped an estimated 1.5 tons of cocaine and amphetamine in the past two years. Europol has rolled up the gang in recent months.
In the so-called transit centers that the German sister parties CDU and CSU want to decorate at the border with Austria, asylum seekers are detained for a maximum of 48 hours. That said Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview with the channel ARD.
The Austrian government wants quick clarification of the consequences of the compromise reached in Germany on migration policy. Vienna wants to know whether the agreements between sister parties CDU and CSU are taken over by the German government, reports Austrian media.
In Iran, Saturday night protested against the continuing shortage of drinking water. The police used tear gas, there was a wounded person. It has been hot in Iran for days with temperatures of over 45 degrees.
Austria is the EU President for the next six months. It is the third time that the country that joined in 1995 occupies that position. Migration and asylum will be important themes.
Closed camps for migrants both inside and outside the EU. After a nightly marathon meeting, this must be the solution before the migration crisis. But there are so many loose ends that no one knows whether a result has actually been booked, or whether only some time has been bought.
The EU must change into a fortress Europe, unreachable for migrants who want to illegally cross the Mediterranean by boat. While EU leaders are today in Brussels at their summit they agree, but there is still a long way to see a solution for new asylum rules. This means that Chancellor Merkel has a huge political problem.
Migrants coming to Europe by sea should be transferred to 'protection centers' in different EU countries on arrival, according to Italy. When it comes to economic migrants, they should also be transferred directly to 'protection centers' in different EU countries, and not just in Italy or Spain.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to hold an informal 'asylum summit' in Brussels on Sunday with EU countries that have a lot to do with migrants. She wants Bulgaria, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Austria and Spain to join in to discuss this issue before the European summit on 28 and 29 June.
A 55-year-old IS sympathizer has been given life imprisonment for the murder of an elderly couple in the Austrian city of Linz. The man from Tunisia confessed the two to have died and then set fire to their house. Shortly after his deed he gave himself to the police.
If the appearance is not deceiving, Merkels `Willkommenskultur 'ends today with the' open borders'. Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs) wants to close the Bavarian border for refugees who have already applied for asylum in another EU country.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has denied that she is aiming for a special summit with several EU countries that are particularly affected by the refugee crisis. A government spokesman said on Sunday in Berlin that 'no special EU summit is planned.' According to him, the convening of such a special summit would be a matter for the 'institutions' of the EU.
The Austrian authorities have asked Germany for clarification of the systematic spying of government services and companies by the intelligence service BND for years. The magazine 'Profil' and the Viennese newspaper 'Der Standard' revealed these German bugging practices on Saturday.
With an ultimatum until next Monday, the German minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has thrown his boss Angela Merkel (CDU) to the throat. The angry Bavarian minister in the Interior refuses to wait for European solutions regarding the asylum problem. If there is no last-minute compromise this weekend, Seehofer will close the border with Austria for refugees.
A Hungarian court imposed 25 years in prison on four members of a gang of people smugglers who had 71 migrants suffocated in a truck. They left the truck with the bodies next to a motorway in Austria.
A medical worker has wrongly declared a 68-year-old man dead in Austria. The counselor did not feel a heartbeat and thought he was already seeing corpses.
Female parliamentarians have been demonstratively exiled in Austria at the time of the swearing in of politician Peter Pilz (64). He was discredited last year after he had been accused of assault.
The Dutch labor market will be open to Croats unhindered by July. According to Minister Koolmees (Social Affairs), there is no reason to allow them to apply for a separate work permit if they want to work here. He writes this Friday in a letter to the House of Representatives.
The Austrian government closes seven mosques and rejects several imams. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that there is no place in his country for 'parallel societies, political Islam and radicalization.'
Walking over the street with face covering such as a burqa and nikab are prohibited in Denmark from August. The Danish parliament voted in favor of a ban on Thursday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Turks more than a month before the elections to support him en masse. 'Are you prepared to give the terror organizations and their local and foreign accomplices an Ottoman turn?' He asked his cheering compatriots in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is calling back ambassadors in four European countries for consultation. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, it concerns diplomats in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria and Romania. Representatives from those countries attended activities around the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem.
The European Commission is open to a discussion with the member states that risk losing their annual EU discount after 2020, such as the Netherlands. According to President Jean-Claude Juncker, the leaders of these countries are 'unwilling to accept that with the departure of the British also the discounts will disappear. I know this gives some frustration, but that's how it goes. '
Due to an accident with a small plane at Innsbruck in Austria, two people died on Sunday morning. The aircraft had made a stopover at Innsbruck airport to refuel. Shortly after takeoff, it collapsed.
Marching children in military uniforms in a mosque caused a stir in Austria. The children marched behind Turkish flags in one of the largest mosques in Vienna. The authorities start an investigation after images of that procession appeared on the internet.
Due to an accident with a bus with tourists in Austria, at least 30 people were injured on Wednesday, two of whom were serious. According to Austrian media, the driver of the bus lost control of his vehicle due to winter conditions at Gosau and drove a wall.
