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Het is nu allemaal de schuld van de mensensmokkelaars welken hun klanten wat voorliegen, niet van Merkel & Co en hun ongeziene oproep. Ook niet van onze media. Nee hoor.

Zelf Politico durft Merkel aan te wijzen in volgend artikel, alhoewel niet wegens de juiste redenen mi. Vers van de pers:


Europe’s lonely liberal hegemon - Angela Merkel’s migration policy isn’t driven by morality.
http://www.politico.eu/article/merke...policy-europe/

BERLIN — For Oxford economics professor Paul Collier things are crystal clear: “Angela Merkel is responsible for the refugee crisis. Who else?”

It would be easy to dismiss Collier if he were not part of a growing chorus that sees Germany’s refugee policy as a morality play — with Merkel in the lead, chasing redemption for Germany’s historical sins.

The late Lord Weidenfeld talked about a German public enthralled by its naïve welcome to refugees “as if that was a way to redeem the sins of the grandparents.” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused Merkel of “moral imperialism.”

[BMerkel’s supporters are equally tempted to qualify her refugee policy in terms of morality. In an address to the German parliament, Holocaust survivor Ruth Klüger expressed her admiration for Merkel for opening the doors to Syrian refugees, saying her “heroic” position had “won Germany the applause of the world.”

Whether seeing it in an favorable light or not, considering Merkel’s stance on refugees as a moral issue does not reflect what really motivates the German chancellor and will determine her decisions in the coming months.[/b]

At the heart of Merkel’s refugee policy is a concern for Europe. Ahead of many of her peers, Merkel argued that the migration issue posed a more severe challenge than did the eurozone debt crisis. She saw how woefully unprepared the EU was for the massive influx.


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For Merkel, the political cost is rising rapidly, with the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) polling at more than 10 percent nationwide and likely to enter three regional parliaments during state elections in March.

Like any liberal hegemon would, Merkel now wonders whether these costs are still worth bearing. Perhaps it would be better to close the Bavarian borders and exercise Germany’s right under the Dublin regulation to turn back refugees who have crossed other safe countries in Europe.

There are historical precedents for a change of mind of this magnitude. After World War II, the U.S. guaranteed stable exchange rates under the Bretton Woods agreement. In 1971, as U.S. costs rose due to speculation against the dollar, President Nixon decided to abandon his promise — the rest of the world called it the “Nixon shock.” It is high time for the rest of Europe to get ready for the “Merkel shock.”

Thorsten Benner is director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.