Allgemeine Zeitung

Manfred Schmidt, head of the federal agency for migration and refugees in Germany, has resigned, German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported.

Schmidt has cited personal reasons for the move.

This comes after tens of thousands of migrants have arrived in Germany over the past weeks.

Germany has decided to reintroduce border controls along its border with Austria, authorities say.

The measure comes less than a day after the city of Munich, which has given shelter to thousands of migrants from the Middle East, said it could not cope with the flow of asylum seekers who entered the country in a matter of hours.

German newspapers Bild and BZ published on Sept.9 a pull-out guide in Arabic for refugees in the capital city, headlining it "Welcome to Berlin".

Bulgaria and Turkey are unrivaled as the best holiday bargain in Europe, a survey cited by German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung shows.

Finland holds firm

Finnish Finance Minister Antti Rinne told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the decisions are clear and that Greece “will get extra money only when the reforms are not just decided upon but also implemented.”

German Ambassador to Ankara Eberhard Pohl was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Aug. 18 following media reports claiming German secret services have been eavesdropping on Turkey for some time. The Turkish Foreign Ministry asked for an explanation from the ambassador and said in a public statement that it would be “grave” if even only part of the media reports were true.

UK's Royal Airforce chased away two Russian bombers that flew close to the country's airspace.

The incident with the aircraft, which were spotted near northeastern Scotland on Wednesday, followed the arrival of a Russian warship off the coast of Britain, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.