During a campaign rally for upcoming state elections in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Chancellor was asked whether terrorism came hand-in-hand with refugees to Germany. “We already said that we are going to do Imam courses at German universities for the sake of transparency”.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ignored the facts with his assertion that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy had resulted in a huge increase in crime, a German minister told Reuters on Tuesday. His official Twitter account even featured an image of Clinton and Merkel together with the hashtag, #AmericasMerkel.
Her sentiments were confirmed by a report released last week by German police, noting that refugees were far less likely to commit crimes than the average German citizen. For her part, Clinton has proposed allowing 10,000 to 65,000 Syrian refugees to enter the United States.
More than a million migrants, fleeing war and poverty in conflict zones like the Middle East and North Africa, have arrived in Germany in the past year.
“The whole process of the exit still lies ahead of us, but the decision is irrevocable”.
“This group has anxious us for several years”, she said at the event in Neustrelitz, a town 100 km (60 miles) north of Berlin. In Berlin, another poll showed the AfD gained 14 percent of support, compared to the CDU’s 18 percent, the Green Party at 19 percent and the Social Democrats at 23 percent. Merkel said Muslims who live by the constitution should feel like they belong in the country. “That is what the foreign Minister is drawing attention to and it is his right to do so”. Meantime, public confidence in Turkey’s deal with the European Union to halt refugee flows has slumped after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown in response to a failed military coup.
File – German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after talks with Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on April 6, 2016.
Though they influence the makeup of Germany’s upper house of parliament, this month’s state elections – Berlin, a city-state in its own right, goes to the polls on September 18 – are just a foretaste of next year’s campaigning.
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