Merkel's predecessor criticizes handling of migrant crisis

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Merkel's predecessor criticizes handling of migrant crisis

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's predecessor is criticizing her handling of the migrant crisis, but backing her stance that Germany can't set a cap on the number of asylum-seekers it takes.

Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who led Germany from 1998 to 2005, told Friday's edition of the Handelsblatt daily that Merkel had "a lot of heart but no plan" when she opened the borders to migrants last fall. He said that Merkel's mistake "was to allow an exception to turn into a new normality — an unlimited influx."

Germany registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year. Some conservatives are pushing for a cap, but the center-left Schroeder backed Merkel's position that that can't be done and there has to be an agreement to distribute refugees within the European Union.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-15

[bridge2bridge]

BLOODY Left Wing IDIOT.

[Geoffggi]

^{The problem these days is that most country leaders are more concerned with looking good on the worl stage than looking after their own citizens}

[jaidam]

Merkel's detractors often dream of seeing her punished in a fatal, agonizing, slow medieval fashion. Funny thing is, after this whole bring ISIS to Germany fiasco, they will in all likelihood get exactly what they wanted.

[Scott]

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[sawadee1947]

BLOODY Left Wing IDIOT.

who is the idiot? Schroeder? And if so, why?

[sawadee1947]

Merkel's detractors often dream of seeing her punished in a fatal, agonizing, slow medieval fashion. Funny thing is, after this whole bring ISIS to Germany fiasco, they will in all likelihood get exactly what they wanted.

...and where is the "fiasco"?

[mopar71]

^{The problem these days is that most country leaders are more concerned with looking good on the worl stage than looking after their own citizens}

Too true,...and the leaders are also criticized everywhere (especially on this forum) when they do put the interests of their own country/citizens first.