BERLIN, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items in leading German newspapers on Thursday.
Die Welt:
-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the other European countries urgently for more aid to refugees. "Isolation and blockade in the age of the Internet are an illusion," she said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung:
-- The German carmaker Volkswagen should pay for potential tax liabilities that may incur as a result of the mission-testing manipulation, as North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Finance Norbert Walter-Borjans demanded in a letter to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
-- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has evaluated the situation of Germany in view of the refugee crisis as very critical during an appearance in Paris. "The situation in Germany is very nervous and fragile," he said at a panel discussion with students.
