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Merkel Slowly Changes Tune on Refugee Issue
Spiegel ^ | 20 November 2015 | Melanie Amann, Horand Knaup, Ralf Neukirch and René Pfister

Posted on 11/21/2015 2:27:46 PM PST by Lorianne

After announcing that Germany would not place limits on the number of asylum-seekers it accepts, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now considering a quota system. The turnaround wasn't her choice. __ Merkel is in the process of preparing a reversal of her refugee policy. At the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey at the beginning of the week, she spoke of quotas -- fixed numbers of refugees that Europe is willing to accept. On the one hand, of course, introduction the idea of quotas is a concession to reality, because the chancellor knows that the ongoing arrival to Germany of up to 10,000 refugees every day is not sustainable.

But the change is also a silent capitulation to her critics. Horst Seehofer, the head of the CSU, and Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière are now setting the tone in Germany's refugee policy, and the Paris terrorist attacks have only given them more leverage. Seehofer and de Maizière have been calling for an upper limit on immigration for months. "Quota" is simply a different word for the same thing.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: germany
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1 posted on 11/21/2015 2:27:46 PM PST by Lorianne
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She is getting backlash in Germany just like Obama is in the US. They are ruining their parties.


2 posted on 11/21/2015 2:33:43 PM PST by YukonGreen
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To: Lorianne

She is getting backlash in Germany just like Obama is in the US. They are ruining their parties.


3 posted on 11/21/2015 2:33:58 PM PST by YukonGreen
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To: Lorianne

Let us hope the light of “reason” will prevail.


4 posted on 11/21/2015 2:34:23 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Lorianne

About time. Closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. Better than nothing.


5 posted on 11/21/2015 2:34:42 PM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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To: Lorianne

I imagine the rats would rather ISIS wait a year before they unleash hell on western civ....knowing that they’d have yet another POTUS who won’t even name them what they are.

Hopefully Trump and family are safe...they aren’t exactly obscure.


6 posted on 11/21/2015 2:35:55 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: Lorianne

I have many German friends..It is becoming Germanistan..they are PO’d..


7 posted on 11/21/2015 2:37:24 PM PST by aces (so this reality..riiight..lol)
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To: Lorianne

Quotas? Ppfffttt..

What she’s done to Germany is unforgivable, and likely cannot be reversed.


8 posted on 11/21/2015 2:40:56 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Lorianne
Tribunals are called for.

("Traitor!")

9 posted on 11/21/2015 2:42:55 PM PST by Bon mots
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10,000 refugees every day

Good grief, that is 3.65 Million per year. A couple of years of that and poof - no country any more.

10 posted on 11/21/2015 2:45:34 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Bon mots

Post 9. Yes.


11 posted on 11/21/2015 2:47:20 PM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: SE Mom

Wait till the ones already there start bringing their relatives over.


12 posted on 11/21/2015 2:50:44 PM PST by aquila48
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10,000 refugees every day

Good grief, that is 3.65 Million per year. A couple of years of that and poof - no country any more

After seven days, one week, that 70,000 will outnumber the total number of active uniformed Bundeswehr soldiers. Total a small bit over 60k. Aufwiedersehn....

13 posted on 11/21/2015 2:54:52 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Too little, too late. Merkel, The Obamanation, and their ilk will keep singing the same song until The Reichstag or the White House or the Capitol Building are blown up. Maybe not even then.


14 posted on 11/21/2015 2:56:29 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: AMDG&BVMH
Closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. Better than nothing.

More like closing the coop door after the foxes are inside.

15 posted on 11/21/2015 3:00:24 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Have “committees” on Grecian shores to welcome the moozlym trash with mortar fire and AK-47s.

Word will get back quickly they are NOT welcome.

the UN will get over it.


16 posted on 11/21/2015 3:01:12 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: AlaskaErik

Yes, that is a better analogy. Sadly . . .


17 posted on 11/21/2015 3:06:44 PM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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To: AMDG&BVMH; All
Closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

This Is The Most Disturbing Muslim 'Refugee' Video You Will Ever See

18 posted on 11/21/2015 3:24:17 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: YukonGreen

Good.


19 posted on 11/21/2015 3:48:53 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: YukonGreen

{”They are ruining their parties.”}

And their countries.


20 posted on 11/21/2015 4:28:29 PM PST by Calpublican (Boehner minus the alcohol and orange spray tan= Ryan.)
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