What will Germany do about the EU migrant crisis it created?

Germany now has the EU rotating Presidency, and a German EU Commission President

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org reveals the latest figures from Germany’s own statistics agency

Last week on Wednesday 01 July, Germany took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. On top of this, the EU Commission’s new President is now the former German Defence Minister: Ursula von der Leyen.

Amongst the many crises on the EU’s plate - and which Germany has to lead on - are:

  • Agreeing the EU’s next seven-year budget, proposed to be €1.1 TRILLION, starting from 01 Jan next year (2021)
  • Part of this involves the thorny issue of immigration
  • A staggering €31.1 billion is proposed to be spent on immigration and border issues by the EU Commission
  • That’s 60% more than the EU is planning to spend on defence and security (€19.4 billion)

It should be noted that whilst there is a line in the EU's budget for immigration and border issues, in reality the figure is much higher than €31 billion. The EU Commission has allowed member states to spend budget allocations designated for other budget areas (eg Cohesion Funds) on matters such as "integration of migrants".

The EU has not been able to agree on an immigration and settlement policy since the migrant crisis in 2015, which was precipitated by German Chancellor Merkel’s rash and unilateral “all welcome here” declaration. This caused a huge influx of migrants across the EU’s borders in 2015, 2016, and the years following.

Given the numbers entering Germany (see below) it is hardly surprising that Germany would like to make progress on sorting out an issue which resonates strongly with ordinary people across the EU. In particular it has to find a way of persuading the governments and peoples in certain countries which have refused point blank to participate in the EU Commission’s previous attempts at imposing legal quotas on EU member states.

The extent of Germany’s (and the EU’s) migrant problem

On 22 November 2005 Angela Merkel became German Chancellor. She inherited a falling immigration rate of foreign nationals entering Germany. This trend was reversed very quickly and by 2015 the number of foreign immigrants was almost 350% of the level when she took office.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org has analysed the latest figures released by the official German statistics agency last week. Whilst the foreign nationals immigration number has obviously fallen from its peak in 2015 when Frau Merkel issued her infamous and unilateral open border policy, (with no prior agreement from the EU or any EU member state), gross immigration is nevertheless now running at over 1.3 million per year into Germany alone.

This is still 240% of the rate which Frau Merkel inherited.

And Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, now the appointed EU Commission President, served in Frau Merkel's Cabinet throughout this entire period.

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Note: The above chart shows total immigration of non-German nationals. We have excluded German nationals returning home. It does not show leavers, but below are the net figures - the 'ins' minus the 'outs'.

Net German immigration since Angela Merkel took office

  • Net German immigration (excluding the ins and outs of German nationals) totalled 5,314,437 people
  • 2,220,131 of these have been recorded as asylum seekers
  • Over half a million people have entered Germany in the last three years alone, claiming asylum

Even the laid-back, open borders, ‘social state’ Swedes are now talking about this issue

Sweden is one of the most – if not the most – ‘open borders’ orientated countries in the EU27.

Coalition politics in Sweden being what it is, the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is unable to place a limit on the number of migrants it takes in. This is because his coalition partners, the Greens, will not let him. Nevertheless, on Friday (03 July) the Social Democrat Swedish PM told the the Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten newspaper:

“We will do our part as a part of the EU. Not more, because it becomes unsustainable. Other countries in the EU should do what lies on them.”

Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, on 03 July 2020

Some might say that the Swedish policy to date has already become unsustainable, with just over two million Swedes now having been born in other countries. That’s one fifth of the Swedish population.

Almost half (934,000) of the foreign-born population has arrived since 2010, according to official figures which Brexit Facts4EU.Org accessed from Statistics Sweden.

Observations

“What relevance does this have for Brexit Britain – we’ve left, haven’t we?”

Sadly, we continue to see a rear-guard action from the predominantly Remainer Establishment in the worlds of politics, the media, academia, so-called ‘think tanks’, and all manner of other areas of public life up to and including the Archbishop of Canterbury, (for heaven’s sake).

These people – and there are hundreds of thousands of them, all of whom continue to influence the public discourse – have not given up the fight. They still refuse to accept the verdict which the British people gave in 2016, in the largest democratic decision ever made in the United Kingdom in its entire history. These Remainer-Rejoiners still dominate the airwaves, thanks to a biased broadcast media.

What if people listened to the LibDem, Labour, Conservative, SNP and Green Remainers?

The simple fact is that if we stayed in the EU, or if we adopted some ‘half-in, half-out’ nonsense propounded by many Remainer politicians, the EU would insist on free movement being maintained.

Freedom of movement means freedom for all EU citizens to move to the UK. This includes those who have entered the EU as illegal immigrants, travelled within the EU, then applied for asylum, and who have subsequently become naturalised in an EU country.

  • Last year (2019) 129,000 foreign nationals were naturalised in Germany alone
  • This represents a 15% increase on the previous year

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[ Sources: Destatis (official German statistics agency) | Statistics Sweden (official Swedish agency) | EU Commission ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Tues 07 July 2020

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