German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly
cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April
13, 2016. (AP)
Reuters, Berlin
Thursday, 14 April 2016
The leaders of Germany’s ruling coalition parties agreed at a
meeting stretching into Thursday morning on a package of counter-terror
measures, coalition sources said.
The
measures include increasing police powers to deploy undercover agents
and empowering Germany’s intelligence agencies to exchange information
with foreign partners, under clear conditions, according to a document
on the meeting’s conclusions seen by Reuters.
The
ruling parties - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, their
Bavarian allies and the Social Democrats - also agreed on the details of
a planned integration law for refugees, a coalition source said,
without giving details. They plan to pass the integration
law on May 24.
Around 1 million migrants
arrived in Germany last year, many fleeing conflict in the Middle East.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has been planning a new law that
will require refugees to learn German and integrate into society.
Last
month, German authorities stepped up security measures at airports,
train stations and the country's borders with Belgium, France, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg following terror attacks in Brussels.
The
German coalition leaders planned to hold a news conference later on
Thursday to give more details on the new counter-terror measures,
coalition sources said.
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