Kirsti Knolle

Vienna

Senior Correspondent at Reuters

Reuters journalist in Berlin

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Vast police search for Madeleine McCann evidence launched in Algarve

3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Miguel Pereira |Pedro Nunes |Kirsti Knolle |Sergio Goncalves |Rachel More

04 June 2025 - 06:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. A criminal police investigator walks as police resume the search for the body of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in the Portuguese Algarve in May 2007, in Atalaia, Portugal on June 3 2025.
ドイツ裁判所、難民申請者の入国拒否は違法と判断政府方針と対立

3 weeks ago | jp.reuters.com | Kirsti Knolle

ドイツ・ベルリンの裁判所は２日、ポーランドからの難民申請者の入国を拒否した国境警備当局の対応は違法との判断を下した。写真はポーランドとの国境を警備するドイツ連邦警察（２０２５年ロイター／Michele Tantussi） [ベルリン２日ロイター] - ドイツ・ベルリンの裁判所は２日、ポーランドからの難民申請者の入国を拒否した国境警備当局の対応は違法との判断を下した。メルツ首相率いる保守連立政権が掲げる難民の流入に厳しい態度で臨む方針と対立する判決となった。難民申請をしたのは男性２人、女性１人のソマリア人。国境警備当局は３人が安全な国から入国を申請したとしてポーランドに送り返した。裁判所はこうした対応について、欧州連合（ＥＵ）圏に最初に入国した国が難民認定の責を負うことを定めた「ダブリン協定」に則って処理すべきで、入国拒否は違法だったと指摘した。公共放送ＲＢＢが裁判所の広報担当者の話として伝えたところによると、裁判所が国境警備当局の難民申請者の入国拒否を違法と判断したのは今回が初めて。...
German border police's expulsion of asylum seekers unlawful, court rules

3 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Kirsti Knolle

Germany has acted unlawfully by turning away asylum seekers at the border, a Berlin court ruled on Monday, citing a case in which border police expelled three Somalis who tried to enter the country from Poland. The two men and a woman were sent back to Poland from a train station in the eastern city of Frankfurt an der Oder on Germany's eastern border on the grounds that they had sought to enter from a safe third country, a court statement said.
German expulsion of asylum seekers by border police unlawful, court rules

3 weeks ago | uk.marketscreener.com | Kirsti Knolle

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has acted unlawfully by turning away asylum seekers at the border, a court ruled on Monday, citing a case in which border police expelled three Somalis who tried to enter the country from Poland. The two men and a woman were sent back to Poland from a train station in the eastern city of Frankfurt an der Oder on Germany's eastern border on the grounds that they had sought to enter from a safe third country, a court statement said.
German Economic Advisory Panel Porecasts Stagnation this Year

1 month ago | gurutrade.com | Maria Martinez |Maria Martínez |María Martínez |Kirsti Knolle

BERLIN, May 21 (Reuters) - The German Council of Economic Experts cut its economic forecast for the German economy on Wednesday, now expecting Europe's biggest economy to stagnate this year as it sees a "pronounced phase of weakness". The academic body that advises the German government on economic policy had predicted the economy to grow 0.4% this year in its previous forecasts published in November.
Friedrich Merz elected as chancellor after unprecedented first-round defeat

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Kirsti Knolle |Madeline Chambers

But Merz’s failure to win backing for his chancellorship at the first attempt is a first for post-war Germany and an embarrassment for a man who has promised to restore German leadership on the world stage. “The whole of Europe looked to Berlin today in the hope that Germany would reassert itself as an anchor of stability and a pro-European powerhouse,” said Jana Puglierin, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank. “That hope has been dashed.
Unprecedented debacle as Germany’s Merz fails to be elected chancellor

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Kirsti Knolle |Madeline Chambers

Berlin — The German parliament will hold a second vote to confirm conservative Friedrich Merz as chancellor after the first one failed, the leader of the centre-left SPD said on Tuesday. “We have now succeeded in applying for a second vote to be held today so that we can quickly elect the federal chancellor,” said Lars Klingbeil. “I assume that the necessary majority will now be there in the second ballot for Friedrich Merz to become the next chancellor of our country,” he added.
Germany's Friedrich Merz fails to be elected chancellor in shock first-round vote

1 month ago | jsonline.com | Kirsti Knolle |Madeline Chambers

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's largest economy once more into disarray. Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to a federal election victory in February and signed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), won just 310 votes in the secret ballot in the lower house, the Bundestag, six short of an absolute majority.
Germany's Friedrich Merz fails to be elected chancellor in shock first-round vote

1 month ago | wisconsinrapidstribune.com | Kirsti Knolle |Madeline Chambers

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's largest economy once more into disarray. Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to a federal election victory in February and signed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), won just 310 votes in the secret ballot in the lower house, the Bundestag, six short of an absolute majority.
Germany's Friedrich Merz fails to be elected chancellor in shock first-round vote

1 month ago | shreveporttimes.com | Kirsti Knolle |Madeline Chambers

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's largest economy once more into disarray. Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to a federal election victory in February and signed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), won just 310 votes in the secret ballot in the lower house, the Bundestag, six short of an absolute majority.