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Berlin's refugee 'masterplan' hit with suspicion of cronyism
Deutsche Welle ^ | 18.03.2016 | Ben Knight

Posted on 03/20/2016 1:05:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Berlin’s mayor has been forced to answer questions in parliament over the decision to grant a lucrative contract to the consultancy McKinsey. The US firm has hired one of the mayor’s old party colleagues.

The list of companies turning a profit from Germany’s influx of refugees grew a little longer in early March, when US consultancy McKinsey signed a €238,000 ($268,000) contract to come up with a plan to integrate the city’s influx of 80,000 refugees.

Now that deal, much criticized a month ago because it had been handed to the company without a tender process, has gained an extra bitter aftertaste. McKinsey, who had worked pro bono for three months to deal with the chaos at the health and social affairs authority (LaGeSo), admitted this week that former politician Lutz Diwell, from the same party as Berlin’s mayor, Michael Müller, has been hired to work on the job. Now suspicions are being aired by local media that Müller’s government helped the mayor’s old comrade to the lucrative position. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: berlin; cronyism; germany; mckinsey; rop; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 03/20/2016 1:05:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There is no other way to describe German mayor after German mayor laying down and letting their cities be used as refugee pawns than there must have been some payments changing hands. Merkel? Indeed.


2 posted on 03/20/2016 1:12:45 PM PDT by Slyfox (Donald Trump's First Principle is the Art of the Deal)
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To: Olog-hai

The are paying McKinsey to come up with a plan to “Integrate the refugees”?

How well does oil “assimilate” with water? Maybe Merkel et al should have thought of that before welcoming in hordes of Muslims.


3 posted on 03/20/2016 1:56:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

merkel and ø evidently share joint plans to wreck the West.


4 posted on 03/20/2016 2:00:25 PM PDT by onedoug
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merkel and ø evidently share joint plans to wreck the West.

Shocking for an Rast German. /s

5 posted on 03/20/2016 2:15:09 PM PDT by Stentor
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6 posted on 03/20/2016 2:22:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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