There are generally only two areas of Germany where you have the combo of ‘welcome refugees’ and anti-capitalism....Hamburg and Berlin. There are numerous metropolitan areas with just the theme of ‘welcome refugees’ but marginalized showing of anti-capitalism.
The theme for the ‘welcome’ deal worked until the evening of 31 December 2015...in Koln. After the thousand-odd police reports of groping and sexual assault...the news media was pushed back and the government was forced into a massive repair job.
The spring 2016 solution was for the Germans to get the EU money guys and Turkey into one room and work up a deal where the Turks would stop the smuggling rings and hold back refugees. The deal that the Turks wanted was entry into the EU, a EU-visa ease of entry for them, and stacks of money (the eventual amount was 3-billion Euro a year). Because the Germans don’t see the money going from Germany to Turkey...people don’t get excited. The German contribution was roughly 950-million Euro...the rest of the EU paid the remaining amount. The EU entry won’t occur (ever), and the visa thing is still on the table. I would guess that all of the three billion Euro goes to supporting the Syrians in camps, but various middle-guys are taking 150-percent profit off services/goods.
All of this effort brought the yearly entry of immigrants and migrants back down to 250,000 to 300,000 a year (their average for the past decade before the crisis).
If you add up the total on 2013 to 2016...it’s near 2.25 million...but their numbers always indicate that around half-a-million have left or been ordered out. Probably another 300,000 in some line to be eventually sent out.
The game which none of the pro-asylum Germans understood...there’s still immigration paperwork to fill out, and a process. The Syrians and Iraqis have a 95-percent chance of being approved. Everyone else runs from five to fifteen-percent of approval. No skills, no real education? No approval unless you are from some war-zone. All the pro-asylum Germans did was create a giant holding deal with a large sum of the migrants thinking they were going to automatically get ‘status’...which is NOT the case.
In the last two or three months, Germans have begun to realize that all these empty refugee camps that they opened are rented spaces, and you can figure at least 25-million Euro a month is thrown away with contracts written in 2014-to-2016...that they can’t easily get out of. On the business of handling migrants and thinking ahead....these weren’t the BMW engineers or the Von Braun rocket scientists....these were poor managers with no real guidance.
Mark Steyn has pointed out for years that, even without the current influx, the Western European birth rate is so low compared to the Muslim invaders that Europe as we’ve known it will be unrecognizable in 30 or 40 years. That’s pretty heady stuff– the takeover of the continent by the Muslims and barely a shot fired...