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Monday, January 30, 2017

German Official: We Regret Open Borders

Says growing Muslim population a challenge for open-minded society

Berlin made mistakes with its “open-door” refugee policy, which “went off course” and saw hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers entering the country over the past two years, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble admits.

The German government is currently trying “to improve what went off course in 2015,” Schaeuble told Die Welt’s Sunday edition in an interview. “We politicians are human beings and we also make mistakes, but one can at least learn from them,” he maintained.

On Friday, Handelsblatt cited a Finance Ministry report that shows Germany spent €21.7 billion ($23.3 billion) on tackling the refugee crisis in 2016. Most of the money went to German states and municipalities, which received €9.3 billion last year, while measures to integrate refugees received €2.1 billion in funding.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

“We politicians are human beings and we also make mistakes, but one can at least learn from them,”

What an insulting statement. They forced this on their citizens, create an unsafe environment, tax implications for decades, and their only response is, oops?

Anonymous said...

They are so much smarter than us

Anonymous said...

The krauts smartened up!

Good for the people remaining in my ancestral land!

Anonymous said...

take it slow mr trump. Do not let the media noise bother you

Anonymous said...

A little bit late

Anonymous said...

$23 Billion would have gone a long way to help Germany's own citizens.