German Masochism

ANGELA MERKLE is coming under ever more pressure after her decision to take in 800,000 migrants from Syria, who will now be able to participate in Germany's generous welfare provision. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit said 'Dr Merkel's decision to open Germany to the refugees may have been the "most spectacular and most far-reaching" of her chancellorship'. Germany is beginning to understand what such an invasion in such a short time can mean to the social fabric of Germany. The De Zeit article added, 'It could also be the decision with which the party chief has alienated her CDU (Christian Democratic Union) like never before. Has Merkel, at the apex of her power, engineered her own demise and even her fall from power?"

                

             The German President Joachim Gauck said the government will have to 'promote the construction of apartments and build schools, hire teachers and kindergarten staff, adjust the labour market and vocational training, teach the German language and law - and do all of that at the same time'. This is the reality of such an invitation by Merkle: Herr Merkle need not feel alone in the pursuance of her idealistic impulses because the whole of the European Union made the same misjudgement when they signed up to Schengen, part of which involved open borders. Open borders between the EU nations that the signatories of Schengen signed up to is the very reason that Europe cannot possibly contain within its boundaries a further; what may turn out to be millions of migrants from the world's trouble spots – it is ridiculous to pretend otherwise.

MY FEAR, as a UK citizen, is that once Germany absorbs the 800,000 migrants, which Merkle sees as only the first tranche of her impeccable humanitarianism which will eventually award them German citizenship – upon which they will then be entitled to enter every other EU country as citizens of Europe. This is the mess the Europhiles have orchestrated under Schengen. So in the future, not only will the citizens of Europe be socially and compulsory made to bleed within each other; but also those other cultures that have little to do with the West, such as those Angela Merkle has invited into Germany and ultimately Europe; will have the same rights of citizenship, as any other European.

                

                If, as a citizen of the UK, our politicians had not signed the Schengen Treaty; this piece I am writing would never have had to be written. But it has been needed to be written; if only because the original migrants under the free movement of peoples have now been added to by the overflow from European foreign policy misjudgements. In particular (but not exclusively) Syria; whose numbers are daily encroaching upon European soil in order to reach their particular nirvana – Angela Merkle's Germany.

               

                Europe would have been better able to absorb such quantities of migrants from Syria if Europe's open border policy had not been in existence. This is not to say that we would have accepted some millions from Syria, even then; but we would have had the unquestioned ability had it not been for the free movement of people within Europe to do so. Our European leaders could have had one thing or another - they could not have had both.

GERMANY HAS HAD much to put up with. When the country was divided between East and West after the ending of the Second World War; the West German people gladly poured billions of Deutsch marks into uniting the country; they have also poured further into saving the euro and Greece, the EU's greatest defaulter in euro crises.

                

                 Now, thanks to the German chancellor, ever more billions are being spent to create an additional infrastructure for those 800,000 Syrians, with more to follow will; as Herr Gauck has said, Germany will require more schools, teachers of every kind and discipline, as well as new apartments.

                

                 The German's are the continents most industrious of peoples, who have, since the Second World War, paid time after time for their Nazi past – this national self-flagellation is no longer required of them. They should no longer feel so guilty, that their chancellor invites legion upon legion of migrants into their country because of something that happened 70 years ago.