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Germany's Alexander Dobrindt, a migration hard-liner, is set to attend a meeting of EU interior ministers on the issue in Denmark. DW has this and more in its blog on German current affairs.
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Alexander Dobrindt, seen here at the Polish-Belarusian border, favors a hard-line approach to migration issuesImage: Ints Kalnins/REUTERSWhat you need to know
EU interior ministers will meet in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on Tuesday for talks on how best to combat irregular migration and organized crime.
Among them will be German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who last week already advocated a harsher European migration policy in talks with several counterparts, including on repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers to countries like Syria and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software has compromised a large number of organizations, including some in Germany.
Here's a roundup of stories, backgrounders and analysis on events in or connected with Germany on Tuesday, July 22:
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Problems associated with migration, particularly irregular migration, continue to be a political focus in Germany and the EU, with German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt an advocate of restrictive policies.
He is thus likely to exhort his European counterparts to implement harsher measures at a meeting in Denmark on Tuesday that is to focus on the issue.
We will also be talking about teething pains with Germany's new digital system for sharing patient information between health care providers, and a hacking attack on Microsoft server software that might have led to massive data leaks in Germany, among other countries.
Read here to find out what Germany is talking about on Tuesday, July 22.
https://p.dw.com/p/4xojL
