A Decade After 1M Refugees, Germany Reflects on the Impact

[Social Media]

Germany opened its doors to 1 million refugees a decade ago. Here’s how the country has changed since

 

Berlin — 

“When I think about the trip today, I wouldn’t do it again – it was so dangerous. What I remember is that many people died, they drowned … there were too many people on that boat.”

 

Anas Modamani, who as a teenager fled Syria’s brutal civil war for the safety of Europe in 2015, is one of many who ended up in Germany, where he still lives and now holds a passport.

 

Sitting in a Syrian cafe in Neukölln, a culturally diverse district of the German capital, Modamani is smiling and well-groomed.

 

He works in IT and in his own time is busy generating content for his thousands of TikTok followers. Yet he is no stranger to media fame. Just days after arriving in Berlin, a selfie he took with then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel went viral, as a symbol of the mood of the time.

 

Read more:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/europe/germany-refugees-migration-changed-sentiment-intl-cmd

[JonnyF]

"Refugees"

[Kinnock]

Merkel was the most effective of all the East German Soviet agents, she managed to engineer an invasion of economically non-value adding dead weights to damage Europe's main growth engine.  Brilliant strategy by Putin.

 

UK is next in line.

[JAG]

The impact - Koln Domplatz on New Year's Eve 2015. 660 women assaulted, 22 raped.

[impulse]

From the linked CNN article:

 

While millions of Germans did welcome migrants, Thym believes that Willkommenskultur ended at the start of 2016, after migrants were widely blamed for an unprecedented wave of mob sex assaults on women in Cologne during New Year’s Eve celebrations.

 

It would be interesting to see a follow up study of how much the program has cost German taxpayers and what percentage of the refugees are contributing to the economy and what percentage are still a net drain.

 

[MalcolmB]

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

[Kinnock]

4 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

I moved here on a legal visa, set up a business that created over 100 jobs for Thai people, paid a ton of local tax and don't want to go back to UK as I'm not keen on Islamic countries.

 

So what was your point?

[hotandsticky]

4 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

 

 

You missed out the word "illegal" prior to "immigrants"

 

 

Unless you actually meant ALL immigrants.

[Chomper Higgot]

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

"Refugees"

Yes:

 

“ Modamani, who as a teenager fled Syria’s brutal civil war for the safety of Europe in 2015, is one of many who ended up in Germany, where he still lives and now holds a passport”

[Chomper Higgot]

5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

Migrant moaners.

[novacova]

6 hours ago, Social Media said:

A Decade After 1M Refugees, Germany Reflects on the Impact

A little late for that now isn’t it.

[novacova]

6 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

As per context, you mean the poor moneyless moochers, right? 

[MalcolmB]

1 hour ago, Kinnock said:

don't want to go back to UK as I'm not keen on Islamic countries.

England is not an Islamic country.

[MalcolmB]

1 minute ago, novacova said:

As per context, you mean the poor moneyless moochers, right? 

Pretty much.

[EVENKEEL]

6 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

This article will bring out all the moaners who hate immigrants in their home countries they don’t live in anymore because they immigrated here.

No one immigrates to Thailand. We're all just tourists here. 

 

Sounds like you don't have a clue. Now get back to the bar girl threads with you.

[Chomper Higgot]

15 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

No one immigrates to Thailand. We're all just tourists here. 

 

Sounds like you don't have a clue. Now get back to the bar girl threads with you.

You migrated, you’re a migrant.

 

[EVENKEEL]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You migrated, you’re a migrant.

 

Speak for yourself, I am a tourist who every 12 months ask permission to stay another 12 months. Thailand is not my home.