BERLIN, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items in leading German newspapers on Monday.
Der Tagesspiegel
-- On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson explained that the U.S. could remain in the Paris Climate Convention. On June 1, U.S. President Donald Trump had announced that his country would quit the historic climate agreement. Foreign Minister Tillerson said: "We want to work with partners in the Paris Climate Convention if we can set conditions that we consider fair and balanced."
Die Welt
-- According to the German Ministry of the Interior, the number of complains of asylum seekers against decision by the German Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) had risen sharply in the first half of the year. In mid-July, more than 238,000 proceedings had been pending in German administrative courts, nearly twice as many as at the end of 2016.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
-- The vice-president for the energy sector in the European Commission Maros Sefcovic proposed the creation of a Europe-wide consortium for manufacturing batteries. Sefcovic said in an interview on Friday: "We need to recognise that the U.S. and the People's Republic of China are moving faster than we do in the area of electric mobility." Enditem
