3. Support for Angela Merkel rises after Brexit: poll

Support for Angela Merkel rises after Brexit: poll

Even her role there is a bit exagerated since we had projections of 800,000 refugees reaching the country back in may before she even did anything. Merkel was for the longest time very silent on the issue and only stepped in when the situation in Hungary was absolutely unsustainable.

I'll just quote the great summary we had in this sub.

  • Third week of august '15: In a meeting between the ministry for migration and refugees, the ministy of interior affairs and the federal states, the question about the refugees from Hungary arises. All parties agree that we would put Hungary in a bad situation if we strictly applied Dublin and sent back all refugees into a country that was already struggling severely. Reminder: In the first eight months of 2015, Hungary continuously had significantly more asylum applications than any other european state, including sweden and Germany. In august, Hungary had more total asylum applications than Germany depite having an eighth of the population. Source for the numbers: Eurostat

-Aug. 25th: The German Ministry for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) tweets this. It translates to: "We are at present largely no longer enforcing #Dublin procedures for Syrian citizens.". This was actually not meant to be published, it was essentially just an assessment of the factual situation. Neither Merkel nor her office knew about this happening.

  • Sept. 3rd: The Federal Government publishes a statement that Dublin III still applies, despite what the previous tweet of the BAMF said. Link to the statement

  • Sept. 3rd: Hungary is stopping all trains en route to Germany. Refugees trying to make the journey by foot.

  • Sept. 5th: Orbán claims that the situation is no longer under control in a telephone conference with Merkel and Faymann. Germany and Austria agree on letting the trains leave Hungary, transit through Austria to Germany to relieve pressure. It is meant to be a one-time action. Merkels office announces that we will not reject the people coming here from Hungary.

  • Sept. 13: Germany reintroduces border controls.

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