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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, May 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The following are major news items in leading German newspapers on Wednesday.

Die Welt:

-- The German government will revise its forecast for the number of asylum seekers in the current year significantly upwards and anticipates more than 400,000 applications for asylum in 2015.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- Despite BND-NSA spying scandal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the work of the intelligence services on Tuesday. She said that Germany is dependent on international cooperation between intelligence services.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- The European Commission has reduced the growth prospects for Greece significantly. Instead of an expected economic growth of 2.5 percent, the European Commission now only expected a growth of 0.5 percent for the year 2015. Endit