German conservatives say Muslims must show restraint with mosques

Following a controversial Swiss referendum to ban mosques with minarets, Christian Democratic state interior ministers in Germany on Thursday recommended Muslims show restraint when building houses of worship. “Naturally the Muslims in Germany have a right to build mosques. But they should make sure not to overwhelm the German population with them,” Hessian Interior Minister…

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Update: Government Against Calculating Cost of Immigrants

The Dutch government has decided to deny the Freedom Party (PVV) request to calculate the precise cost and benefit of immigration. The party requested accounts from each ministry regarding the cost and benefit of immigrants, but Minister of Integration Eberhard van der Laan says ministers will only give figures that are already available in the…

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Dutch Cabinet Discusses Cost of Immigration

The Volkskrant reports that government ministers will discuss a request by Geert Wilders’ PVV party to calculate exactly how much non-western immigrants cost Dutch society. Ministers must decide how far they will go in their reply on this ‘sensitive issue’, which some political parties had hoped to ignore. Integration minister Eberhard van der Laan has…

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Germans Balking at Taking Guantánamo Detainees

German interior officials said that the inmates from the Guantánamo Bay detention center whom the United States wants Germany to accept could pose a major security risk because they had spent time in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. The United States has asked Germany to take 12 Chinese Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority located…

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EU doubts over taking in former Guantánamo prisoners

EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the EU foreign policy chief said today as European foreign ministers struggled to find common ground in Brussels. “This is an American problem and they have to solve it but…

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