Angela Merkel to Visit Protest-Hit Refugee Home Wednesday

Far-right protesters have demonstrated against asylum seekers in the area.

Refugee’s assist a fellow Refugee holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and refugees during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, August 21, 2015.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hosting Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, said she expected China to do “everything it possibly can” to stabilise the situation.

“Germany today is a country that is open to the world and – even in light of the most recent events in Saxony, I stand by it – a tolerant, culturally rich, diverse country”, he told a gathering of German ambassadors.

Just two months after the German government predicted it would receive a total of 450,000 asylum seekers this year, officials now say that number could reach as high as 750,000, according to media reports. Asylum applications in the country have quadrupled in the space of a year.

The Dublin Rules, officially known as the “Dublin III Regulation” is based on the principle that the first Member State, where fingerprints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged, is responsible for a person’s claim.

The blaze in Nauen gutted the gymnasium – part of a vocational school – in the early hours of Tuesday.

Police officials said that the blockade was imposed to try and stem the overflow of people that had caused chaotic scenes at a railway station in the Macedonian town of Gevgelija as thousands tried to secure places on overcrowded train.

State President Dietmar Woidke heavily criticized the attack, saying there will be zero tolerance for “any form of xenophobia” and that the act was “shameful”. Police are again investigating the possibility it could have been started deliberately. The peaceful demonstration was organised on Facebook page, by a group that the BBC claimed to be linked to the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP).

It speaks for the majority of Germans who are horrified by yet another attack on accommodation intended for asylum seekers.

Germany stands ready to do its utmost to drive forward the common project of a refugee policy based on the principle of solidarity.

The latest case of suspected arson came after a weekend of violent protests by far-right extremists and neo-Nazis at a refugee shelter in the eastern town of Heidenau.

While the threat of “full-scale military invasion” remains, Russian Federation “also has an alternative strategy – to undermine the situation in the middle of our country and to put the country at loggerheads with key [foreign] partners, isolating it with the aggressor”, he said. The police had to seal off the new migrant shelter to keep the asylum-seekers safe.