Indian software will drive global hardware58 PM

Meanwhile, the chancellor hinted that Germany would back India’s membership to the global export control regimes, including the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), and its bid for a permanent UN Security Council seat.

On Tuesday night, it was made public that the overall responsibility in coordinating the government’s response to the refugee crisis was being shifted from the Interior Ministry to Merkel’s chancellery, with Peter Altmaier, Merkel’s chief of staff, named to head the newly created staff unit.

But the movement has again gained momentum as the influx of new arrivals has grown, drawing 10 000 to a march last week, media reports said. Later, senior officials of the two countries signed 18 Memoranda of Understandings, including one on the basis of which a few India-Germany flights would have armed marshals to thwart hijacking bids.

“Both countries welcomed the MoU on an Indo-German solar energy partnership based on concessional loans in the range of one billion euros over the next 5 years“, the statement said. Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) was also down sharply.

“The attacks by Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer on the chancellor are driving voters on the right wing of the CSU to the AfD”, said Guellner.

Merkel may be hoping that the appointment of Altmaier, a gregarious mountain of a man who served as parliamentary whip for her conservatives and admits to a penchant for dumplings stuffed with liver sausage, will help shore up support for her policies.

However, government spokesman Georg Streiter dismissed speculation that de Maiziere had been stripped of a few of his power. Journalists reporting from Monday’s rally walked “in tortoise formation, like Roman Legions, to protect themselves”, a journalist told AFP.

Refugee shelters across Germany have been set alight in a series of arson attacks in recent weeks, but police said they did not suspect arson in this case. Although a new poll last month found the German leader to be at her lowest ebb this year, as reported by Breitbart London, she has hardly taken a beating, finding herself only three points down and still at 49 per cent. The figure still puts her well ahead of any other figure in German politics.

But in a speech on Wednesday afternoon to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Merkel said Germany and Europe must work together to tackle the crisis, saying it posed a test of historic proportions.