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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer presents the crime statistics report for 2020 during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Annegret Hilse/Pool via AP)

Germany sees drop in crime during 1st year of pandemic

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Horst Seehofer, German Minister of the Interior, attends a news conference about a report on extremism in Germany in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 (Wolfgang Kumm/Pool via AP)

Review: Few far-right cases in German security agencies

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Germany presses for EU deal on taking in rescued migrants

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German minister drops threat to sue over column on police

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German police raid banned far-right group in 4 states

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Federal police officers carry a box with secured documents during raids in Leipzig, Germany, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Police in Germany have raided dozens of homes linked to anti-government groups suspected of manufacturing fake documents. (Peter Endig/dpa via AP)

Anti-Semitic crime rises in Germany, most from far right

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

A man dances as another plays the drums aboard the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean Sea, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Eighty-two rescued migrants remain on board the humanitarian rescue ship waiting for a European country to give them permission to disembark. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

The Latest: Germany ready to take ¼ of rescued migrants

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FILE - In this April 10, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, right, look at their watches after they and other members of the government posed for a group photo during two-day retreat at the government guest house Meseberg castle in Gransee north of Berlin, Germany. In the center is German Justice Minister Katarina Barley. Germany's top security official, who has frequently criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy, is reportedly planning to quit his post in government.German news agency dpa quoted multiple unnamed party officials as saying Horst Seehofer told a meeting of the Christian Social Union on Sunday that he plans to relinquish its leadership and his role as interior minister in Merkel's government. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

The Latest: Germany’s Seehofer to remain interior minister

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German Interior Minister and CSU chairman Horst Seehofer attends a press conference at the headquarters of the Christian Social Union, CSU, in Munich, Germany, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, the day after their party lost the absolute majority in Bavaria's state parliament by a wide margin. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Merkel’s Bavarian ally seeks quick decisions after election

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, right, listen to Vice Chancellor and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz during a joint press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. This weekend's state election in Bavaria has been casting a long shadow over German politics for the past year, and the aftershocks could cause more turbulence for Chancellor Angela Merkel's struggling national government. Polls suggest that Bavaria's center-right Christian Social Union party, which has run the southeastern region for 61 years, is heading for its worst performance since the 1950s on Sunday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Merkel allies brace for big setback in German state election

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany to expand job-seeker visas, seeks skilled workers

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 photo Hans-Georg Maassen, left, head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, right, shake hands as they arrive for a hearing at the home affairs committee of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany. The leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition were trying Sunday to resolve a standoff over the future of the country's domestic intelligence chief and stabilize their six-month-old alliance. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The Latest: German coalition reaches deal on spy chief

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FILE -- In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Horst Seehofer, Chairman of the German Christian Social Union and Andrea Nahles, Chairwomen of the German Social Democrats, address the media during a press conference in Berlin. The leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition were trying Sunday to resolve a standoff over the future of the country's domestic intelligence chief and stabilize their six-month-old alliance. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German government reaches deal to solve spy chief dispute

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German minister: Mistakes made in Chemnitz suspects’ cases

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union party leaves the headquarters after a board meeting in Berlin, Monday, July 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Angela Merkel faces off with her rebellious allies over migration

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Angela Merkel’s open borders policy could spell end for Germany chancellor

By Austin Davis - Special to The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a special meeting of her Cristian Union faction at the Reichstags building, in Berlin Thursday, June 14, 2018. Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Pressure grows on Merkel to tighten refugee policies

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

A mother warms the hands of her little child in a tent at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) LaGeSo during freezing temperatures in Berlin, Germany ,Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Bavaria threatens Merkel govt with lawsuit over migrants

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press