Germany is on its knees pulling down Europe
“Reception capacities are exhausted”; that was a statement written on October 7 to the Chancellor of Germany. It was written not by opposition leaders or demonstrators, but by 34 local- and state politicians of the same party Angele Merkel is the head, the CDU, Germany’s conservative centre right party.
It says in extractions: “we are turning to you with great concern about the future of our country and Europe. We are currently witnessing an uncontrolled influx of several thousand refugees a day to Germany. Many tens of thousands of refugees are on different routes on the way into our country. After looking at reliable estimates, several million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are planning their escape to Germany. At the same time more and more people flee from Albania, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa to Germany.
Our EU partners such as Greece, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria lead the refugees that are so far contrary to the applicable European law, in most cases just to Germany.”
Further: “…,in the foreseeable future, mostof the refugeesare not expected to be integrated into the German labor market. In addition, the majority of refugees come from countries that have different views on society, clearly differing from our Western values.”
It continues: “The current "policy of open borders" practice is neither a European nor German law, nor is it consistent with the CDU program. Therefore, a large part of the members and voters of our party do not feel represented by the current line of the CDU-led federal government in the refugee policy.
We expressly support the planned or adopted measures by the federal government and the European Union, such as the significant strengthening of aid to refugees in the neighboring countries of Syria, the better securing of the EU's external borders, an acceleration of the asylum procedure, the reduction of benefit standards for particular categories of refugees, the principle of property rather than cash benefits.”
They end the letter with a plea, including clear points to follow:
“Therefore, we urge you to promptly take measures to reduce the current influx of refugees expeditiously and effectively. This should include based on our estimation:
1. Restoration of the validity of the European and German law
Refugees who come from safe third countries, 18 Asylum Procedure Act, to the German border are to be rejected under this section.
2.More support for and pressure on Greece and Turkey
Our NATO partners and EU candidate Turkey is making an important contribution, when it comes to Syrian civil war refugees. We should recognize and support this strongly. Our EU and NATO partner Greece is for years exposed, with its Schengen border, to a large influx of refugees. This also demands our recognition and stronger support. In return, however, we must be able to require our partner countries Turkey and Greece that they control their borders more effectively.
3. Timely and un-bureaucratic strengthening of the support for refugees in the countries of origin.
The financial and logistical assistance to refugees must be removed promptly and without red tape, in particular in the neighbouring countries of Syria, like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
4.Clear messages to German limited absorption capacity on the countries of origin and their population
5. Acceleration of deportations and return transfers
By law rejected asylum seekers are to be deported promptly and consistently.
Germany and Europe are strong and can take in a lot of refugees. But the current situation of de facto open borders does not only question the sovereignty of Germany and the EU, but also creates a risk that the capacity, as well as the receptiveness will be overwhelmed in our country. A continuation of the unbridled influx threatens peace and plays radicals and extremists of various persuasions into their hands.”
The entire letter (in German), can be observed from the following link:
http://mobil.n-tv.de/politik/Aufnahmekapazitaeten-sind-erschoepft-article16089846.html?ref=yfp
Let’s go back to the routes of the Islamic problem.
When the Turks were invited as “guest workers”, nobody in Germany made a difference between Kurds and Sunni and Alevi, and that this could lead to internal disputes. Further, it was planned to accommodate these Turks as temporal workers, hence not to stay in Germany permanent. Nowadays approximately 1.55 million people in Germany are Turkish citizens, and 2.714.240 million are residents in Germany, with at least one parent from Turkey. Only 193000 are former German residents of Turkish background, now living in Turkey. However, this was a planned and controlled immigration program signed in 1961. This was preceded by recruitment agreements with Italy in 1955, Spain and Greece in 1960. The big difference between the Turks and the just mentioned south European countries is that the latter can easily integrate and even assimilate with German life style, due to the same or similar culture and history. The Republic of Turkey associated with this agreement on labour migration certain goals. Firstly, they wanted to reduce their trade deficit, and on the other hand, the social and economic problems in Turkey should be mitigated. Over the following years, women and children were called to follow their men into Germany, increasing their number drastically. There are now great-grandchildren of the first generation of immigrants, who are Turkish citizens, as already their parents were born in Germany, making the “guest worker” original intention non-existent.
New openly made protocols, yet unveil, that the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the leader of the same party CDU Angela Merkel is, show that he wanted to cut in half, the group of Turks living in Germany. He stated this to the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1982. Even 30 years later, Helmut Kohl defended his statement, as already that time there was a debate about the foreign policy.
Spiegel Online had previously reported about a conversation log that holds records of the private secretary of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whohad a meeting with Kohl on October 28 1982. After the period of confidentiality is now a publicly available made protocol where Chancellor Helmut Kohl had said, "over the next four years it will be necessary to reduce the number of Turks by 50 percent - but he could this not say this publicly".
After the unveiling of these protocols, left wing SPD parliamentary CEO Thomas Oppermann said Friday in Berlin about Kohl's former statements: “Frightening is the thinking that hides behind it. This thinking was influenced by the fact that immigrants and refugees were seen only as a burden." Meanwhile, immigration would be seen, however due to the shortage of skilled workers as a major opportunity.
Typically Mr. Oppermann misses and falsely interprets the issue.
The truth lays far different, and is not simply to put into the populistic corner of a Mr. Oppermann or the Lefts. First of all, Kohl didn’t speak about a burden, but simply that there was a need to reduce the “guest workers” at a stage where they were still a “guest”. The Turks came under a temporal agreement, and not as permanent residents. Secondly, they indeed came due to a shortage of skilled workers, but the sneaky, not outspoken statement of Mr. Oppermann, leads to a comparison of the present situation in Europe. The present uncontrolled influx of refugees is neither controlled neither a signed agreement, nor neither a migration of qualified or needed workers or specialists.
Reality is different from the populistic present German politics, especially the Lefts. Munich Economic experts believe that the majority of the refugees will have hard times to find a job. It is fearedthat many of them, with the present minimum wage of 8.50 Euros cannot find employment because their productivity simply is too limited. More absurd is therefore a call demolish the minimum wage, a law that was just passed recently.
According to Hans-Werner Sinn, President of the Ifo Institute, the refugee crisis can only be overcome by radical social reforms in Germany. "We should take advantage of the influx of refugees as an opportunity for a new Agenda 2010", he said to the newspaper ZEIT.
Specifically, hecalls to abolish the minimum wage, because only so enough jobs for refugees incur who possessed to a great extent only a low qualification.
Normally refugees are seen as temporal visitors until their crisis or war is over. He also fails to talk about the majority of non-refugees, hence illegal and economical refugees from Africa, the Balkan and many other Middle East countries.
The proportion of illiterates in the countries of origin is usually high, in Afghanistan it represents more than 50 percent among 14- to 29-year-olds. The proportion of university graduates is only six per cent, even in the relatively sophisticated Syria. In addition, most examinations and graduations are not equivalent to European standard. The Ifo forecasts are based on the number of 800,000 refugees that are expected this year in Germany.
The German most liked and popular alive former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, is one of the last icons of real social democracy, before it slowly changed to a less ideological and more to the center moving party, cuddling with the CDU and the Green Party and falling apart by losing voters to the just mentioned Green Party and the new Left party, that was created after the fall of the Berlin wall. The Green party is basically a break-away and secession from the SPD party, originally with the focus on environment and the anti-nuclear power movement “Atomkraft nein danke”. The new Left party, a party which emerged in part from the old East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany,had therefore its strongholds in the formally new federal states, gaining slowly popularity in the old federal states, led by the charismatic Gregor Gysi. Helmut Schmidt stated already in 2013 that an intermixing of different cultures with each other is dangerous. Muslims in Germany are a problem and do not want to be integrated. However, Italians, Spaniards and Greeks were different there. With them, Germany had no problems. Their cultures are compatible with German traditions and values.
"There are no major differences between the Italian, French and German civilizations,"said Schmidt in an interview with Radio Télévision Suisse. The Turkish culture is completely different. The Syrian or Egyptian cultures are also similar. But it is "dangerous" when a mixture takes place with foreign cultures or civilizations.
In 2004 Helmut Schmidt said to Hamburger Abendblatt that the concept of multiculturalism is "incompatible with a democratic society". "When someone asks where in the world multicultural societies function, then you quickly to the conclusion that multiculturalism can only exist peacefully within an authoritarian state," said Schmidt.
Helmut Schmidt has expressed skepticism about the prospects of integrating Muslim immigrants into German society. "I am very skeptical about immigration from Islamic cultures," Helmut Schmidt said in a joint interview with DER SPIEGEL with Gerhard Schröder (former SPD Chancellor for Germany too). "For the Turks, with the people of Lebanon and the Islamic countries as a whole," he sees a problem. Many of the immigrants are living in ghettos, "and the ghetto intensified the internal culture".
Germany and many other European countries do need immigrants, due to its decline in birth rates. To keep up a society over generations, a 2.1 children birth rate has to be achieved; otherwise it is doomed to collapse one day. Yet this problem can be solved in a more intelligent way. First of all, seeing all the money spent on the present crisis and that one refugee costs the state 12500 Euros per year, this money could be spent on child welfare, to attract European women to have children. Not only as a financial incentive, but also to keep up the opportunity for woman to work as equal as men, by improving day care and early schooling. Further, there are nations in this world that form no problem at all when migrating to Europe; these are mostly Asians. One would have to dig deep, to find any major problems with Asians in Europe, as they integrate and respect European culture fully. They work and learn the languages rapidly. The Philippines is Germany’s biggest trade partner in Europe. This maybe a surprise to hear, but political and economic ties between the two countries are thriving. In 2014, President Aquino visited Germany, and large arrangements for business deals were made. Also thousands of well-educated Filipino nurses and care takers will and are coming to Germany, to help the aging population. In 2013, the Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) announced that the government of the Philippines and Germany have reached and signed an agreement regarding the deployment of Filipino healthcare professionals to different hospitals and medical institutions in the European country. This is a form and example of welcomed and needed legal immigration.
Social rejection of Muslims is widespread not only in Germany but also in the other countries of continental Europe. Widespread anti-Muslim sentiment is particularly found in the Netherlands, a basically freedom loving country. Resentments are not limited to Wilders, hence PVV supporters, but also include voters of socialists and social democrats. This emerges from a study by pollster Maurice de Hond. Only 26 percent of respondents, who during the last national polls supported the anti-Wilders party D66, preferable believe that Islam is an asset to their country. 68 percent of voters of the Socialists (SP) and the Social Democrats (PvdA) see in Islam no enrichment for the Netherlands, reported Migazin. In each case, 48 percent of PvdA- and SP voters share the view that the immigration of Muslims should be stopped. However the Wilders Party (PVV) holds 100 per cent of the electorate opposing Muslim immigrants. 68 percent of the D66 voters are also against Muslim immigrants. Finally, about two-thirds of all respondents reject the building of mosques in the Netherlands. So when Geert Wilders is being attacked in parliament for not representing the Dutch society, polls show that he does support society to a very large part.
And Angela Merkel keeps on ignoring. She places a large group of the population into the pool of the “untouchable” – smelly and extreme, best to ignore minority. This arrogant position has cost her popularity in the country, and of course support from Islamic states as Saudi Arabia. Is that worth being proud of? The Islamic network ISECO has praised Angela Merkel for her PEGIDA scolding. The Saudi president of the group calls Germany to respect Human Rights. This is grotesque, as in hardly any other country where Human Rights are trampled in the name of Islam as it is in Saudi Arabia. The applause from the wrong corner is a testament to the boundless opportunism of the federal government in the refugee debate.
Let me quote here: “The greatest threats to European values are the double standards with which the global elites ignore the Human Rights of the citizens entrusted to them.”
The discomfort, which is increasingly and evidentially articulated in Europe on its streets, should be political warning to the elites, to come down from their thrones and represent Europe and its nationals again, instead of pleasing a suicidal plan.
By Thomas Fleckner
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