Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says the Iran war has so far not triggered a wave of migration to Europe Antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein has called on festivals to make a stand against what he says is rising antisemitic rhetoric in the cultural sector Police are investigating an explosion in an underpass in the town of V\u00f6lklingen that killed one man and wounded four others<\/p>\n
Here is DW’s roundup of the top headlines from Germany on April 18, 2026:<\/p>\n
No increased migration amid Iran war \u2014 Interior Minister Dobrindt<\/p>\n
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has said the US-Israeli war on Iranhas so far not led to more people seeking shelter in Europe but that European authorities are taking precautionary measures.<\/p>\n
“We are not currently seeing increased migration pressure,” Dobrindt told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.<\/p>\n
He said authorities were monitoring migration movements in countries such as Iran and Lebanon.<\/p>\n
“At present, we are seeing high levels of internal migration in both countries, but we are not yet detecting pressure on the Turkish border. That would be the first indicator of a further migration movement towards Europe,” Dobrindt said.<\/p>\n
Over 4.25 million people were internally displaced in the two countries between the start of the war in February 28 and early April, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report.<\/p>\n
In his Saturday comments, Dobrindt said the coming weeks would show how the situation develops, especially in the Middle East, and what migration movements may follow.<\/p>\n
He also left open the possibility of extending border controls beyond September.<\/p>\n
Dobrindt ordered intensified checks and refusals of entry at all nine of Germany’s external shortly after he took office in May last year, a move that is allowed only on a temporary basis under the EU’s Schengen rules.<\/p>\n
Those checks have twice been extended as Germany adopts an ever more hardline migration policy.<\/p>\n
Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n
Guten Morgen from the team in the DW newsroom in Bonn!<\/p>\n
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has said the United States and Israel’s war with Iran has so far not caused more people to come to Europe to escape the fighting.<\/p>\n
Germany’s antisemitism commissioner has called for organizers of cultural events to be on their guard against artists using performances to spread anti-Israel messages.<\/p>\n
And an explosion in a town near Germany’s border to France has claimed at least one life, with the cause still under investigation.<\/p>\n
You can read about these and other stories from Europe’s biggest economy in our roundup of German stories on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says the Iran war has so far not triggered a wave of migration to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[406,5610,5609,5,5607,5608,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-5534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-alexander-dobrindt","9":"tag-felix-klein","10":"tag-german-interior-minister","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-interior-minister-dobrindt","13":"tag-internal-migration","14":"tag-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}