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Germany: Merkel flip-flops again, says she supports Italy’s anti-migrant policy

Jun 20, 2018 9:39 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she wanted to support Italy in its efforts to reduce the number of migrants arriving on its shores, possibly handling asylum requests for Europe in non-European countries including Libya.

One wonders which Angela Merkel is talking from day to day.

She has been aggressively pushing for the EU to take in more migrants. The “migrant mayhem” that rocked Germany due to her reckless immigration policy did not faze her, once the public backlash against her subsided in January 2017. In February 2017, Merkel “urged Europe to take in more refugees and said Islam is ‘not the source of terror.”

Yet only three months before that, Merkel surprised everyone by doing a complete about-face in response to humiliating electoral defeats and threats to her power, when she ordered the EU to “intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to North Africa.” That was short lived. The month after that, following the deadly Christmas market jihad attack, Merkel stated in a speech that Germany “fights terrorism with compassion,” as she again reiterated  her open-door migrant policy. Then this past April, Merkel  admitted that anti-Semitism was a problem in Germany, and that it was coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin.”

Merkel is not only unreliable but dangerous, and her U-turns are dizzying. This past February, she announced plans to use EU funds to help integrate migrants, while the year before that, she unveiled plans to bring in a whopping 12 million more migrants.  Now that so-called “right wing,” “populist” parties are growing as Europeans are starting to awaken, and her government is in trouble, Merkel feels that once again it is time for her to flip-flop so she can stay in power. Donald Trump noted yesterday that “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.”

Italy’s new anti-migration coalition recently announced that it would immediately begin to expel 500,000 migrants, as well as to shut down its borders to migrants by not allowing ships to dock. Let’s hope that Italy has noted Merkel’s convenient, erratic flip-flopping and disingenuousness with regard to Muslim migration.

After German Chancellor Angela Merkel took in over one million asylum seekers in 2015, the share of violent crimes committed by migrants between 2014 and 2016 more than tripled, from 4.3 percent to 13.3 percent.

“Merkel to Support Italy in Tackling Migration Challenge,” Reuters, June 18, 2018:

BERLIN (REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she wanted to support Italy in its efforts to reduce the number of migrants arriving on its shores, possibly handling asylum requests for Europe in non-European countries including Libya.

Most migrants attempting to reach Europe from Africa take the sea route from Libya to Italy, though last year saw a spike in numbers departing from Morocco to Spain instead.

“Italy is one of the countries that is receiving a lot of refugees as a first arrival country,” Merkel told reporters before talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

“We want to support Italy in its call for solidarity and hope that Germany will also be met with understanding when it comes to solidarity in Europe with the issues of migration.”

Merkel said her talks with Conte and other European leaders in coming weeks would focus on the question of how the European Union could enable a stable government in Libya and how its coast guard could be better trained.

“And how we can, if necessary, already carry out asylum-related proceedings there. These are all questions that we will discuss in the coming months and where we want to work very closely together,” Merkel said.

Matteo Salvini, interior minister in the anti-establishment government that took office this month in Rome, has adopted a policy of blocking foreign humanitarian boats from Italian ports, which has triggered heated exchanges with France and the Netherlands.

Conte has spoken of the need for European-run immigration offices outside Europe to prevent “voyages of death”. More than 3,000 migrants died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2017, according to the U.N. Migration Agency (IOM)….

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  1. andra says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 9:54 am

    Merkel´s plan is quite simple. She SAYS that she wants to stop ILLEGAL immigration, because that is what most Germans want to hear. But the Germans mean by stopping illegal Immigration stopping all immigration as all of those who come to Europe don´t have any right to come here.
    But Merkel means to turn illegaliImmigration into legal Immigration.
    E.g. the Turkey-deal. The illegals who come from Turkey to Greece are sent back to Turkey, but for each of them the EU – meaning GerMoney – takes one (or more) migrant “legally”. These people come by plane and do not show up in the statistics of migration. They will not be registered as asylum seekers but as legal immigrants.

    Now she pretents that she wants to help Italy in stopping the arrivals on Italian shores. But it only means that those waiting for a boat to Italy on the African coast will be collected by plane and flown directly into Germany.

    • Westman says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 10:36 am

      Apparently in this (250,000 per year) deal – one “Syrian” deportation means one allowed “legal” “Syrian” immigrant is taken into the EU – dates back to 2016:

      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35956836

      They arrive from Turkey, at night?

      • andra says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 1:36 pm

        No, not necessarily. In Point 4, if I remember it correctly, the one-to-one exchange ist not obligatory. Each EU-state has the choice to take in more migrants of any number.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 1:52 pm

      Merkel is as crazy as her father. Who in their right mind would move their entire family from West Germany to East Germany?

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Jun 21, 2018 at 10:55 am

        Not so strangely enough, for religious reasons. He thought he could turn Communists toward religion.

    • Ginny says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 5:44 am

      Exactly. She’s on a mission to destroy Germany and she’s still right on course. Her ilk will get elected again. The press is rigged and too many people are now dependent on the “refugee” industry for a living. It baffles the mind that so many Germans, who are faced daily with radically different demographics — at tax payer expense, still defend open borders and meyhem in the streets.

  2. Westman says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:05 am

    “One wonders which Angela Merkel is talking from day to day.”

    One could wonder which drug Angela Merkel is taking from day to day.

    What a great idea, have the migrants stop in Lybia, now another SH, compliments of Hillary Clinton. That’s really going to be the answer, just like the migrants were supposed to stay in the first country in which they registered.

    Put down the smoking pipe Angela; back away from the pipe; YOU CAN DO IT!

  3. dan christensen says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:08 am

    The incessant haggling of the EU topdogs over migration makes any definite solution possible. In most European countries you can watch this flip-flopping carry on for decennia. The net result is that extra millions of foreign parasites invade the continent, making their expulsion more and more difficult – thus facilitating the ongoing change of the European population from christians to muslims.
    Luckily for US, president Trump is addressing the problem thoroughly now.
    Can anyone imagine EU president Jean-Claude Juncker follow suit? The man is a joke!

  4. nicu says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:13 am

    Merkel just wants to have as many as possible of her beloved Muslims and she wants to force other countries to do the same !

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 7:54 pm

      Remember that both Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Khomeini were Time Magazine persons of the year. She’s not quite that evil–but remember this just notes their influence, not their greatness.

    • andra says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 10:13 am

      She does not force anybody to do so. The latest suggestions for an EU-wide asylum agreement shows that she and others only want the migrants in Germany.
      Juncker´s plan is
      – first to change the Dublin rules in the way that each Migrant may pick the country they want. it does not matter in which country they arrive. That means that all migrants will either pick Germany or Sweden.
      – in a second step they will give restrictions to the movement of migrants within the EU. They are supposed to stay in the country that processes their demand. So all migrants will stay in Germany and Sweden and then Swedes and Germans will be history soon.

  5. nicu says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:14 am

    @ andra : correct : these flights have not stopped since 2015 !

    Merkel is a traitor !!!

  6. MFritz says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 11:07 am

    Flop-flopping is the typical “Merkel Maneuver”. Worked for her ever since school.

    But her political party is still at about 30%, so there are enough dummies left in my country that vote for this “most damaging German politician since 1945”.

    • RichardL says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 1:47 pm

      Merkill is not flip-flopping. In order to flip you would have to have a direction in the first place. She is totally empty: she just wants to go on playing chancellor.

      • andra says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 4:21 pm

        I don´t think so. I am certain that Merkel, Macron, May, Trudeau, the new Spanish Premier, the Swedes, Rutte and so on are following a well-defined agenda. None of them is crazy, all of them are traitors and genoziders.

        • Indiana Tom says

          Jun 20, 2018 at 10:02 pm

          Disciples of George Soros.

        • Ginny says

          Jun 21, 2018 at 5:51 am

          Yes. I fear you are tight. That is why they are such cool customers. Our pain doesn’t interest them in the least and they know they have nothing to fear from an election — just like Hillary until Trump came along!

  7. Phil Copson says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    “….True fact A rare but deadly skin cancer is named: Merkel cell carcinoma….
    ————————————————————————————————–

    Another true fact – (actually – facts are always true – that’s why they’re called facts, but moving on…) – the “Flying Merkel” was also the name of a very sporting early American motorcycle.

    An enterprising young German lady named Margaret Gast left Germany for America at the age of 16, and took up motorcycle racing in her 20s after a very successful first career as a top racing-cyclist.

    One of her crowd-pleasing acts was to ride her Flying Merkel around the “Wall of Death” – a vertical wooden cylinder with a platform around the top, where the spectators could stand and look down into the cylinder to see the intrepid motorcyclists racing around the inside at 90 degrees from vertical, relying on their sheer velocity to generate the centrifugal force to keep them pinned to the wall.

    After her cycling and motor-cycling careers, Miss Gast led a varied and useful life running a health-studio and restaurant, and was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall Of Fame in 1993.

    I hear that there is currently another German lady with a strong Merkel connection intent upon turning the German people into spectators at her own version of the “Wall of Death” – the main difference being that now it’s the spectators who risk a violent and bloody vehicle-related death, while the Merkel circulates in complete safety…..

    It may be too early to be completely certain, but I feel confident that her place in Europe’s “Hall of Infamy” is assured.

  8. The European says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    Merkel is nothing but a careerist pig, a manipulative puppet master, maneuvering and flip-flopping is what she is best at, a deceitful woman that cannot be trusted.
    Familiy reunion for illegal migrants will start in August 2018 -no matter what. Again, Muslims will pour in our country by the thousands, again will they live on welfare benefits, and again, will they “make us happy” with Muslim Neanderthal culture – murder, rape, terror attacks and sharia law.
    And creepy Horst Seehofer, our home secretary, is no better. You cannot trust him either. Oh yes, he says that he wants to close the border for illegal migrants from extra-European countries, but that is not true. If you look a little bit closer at his proposals on border control and migration, he only wants to turn away those asylum seekers who have no valid papers and those who have already been registered in other countries of the EU. So, if a black African who is bound for Germoney, shows up at the border, presenting a valid ID and calling for asylum, he will enter Germoney. And this applies not only to him, but to thousands, and even millions who are headed for Germany.
    Seehofer positions himself against Merkel, but that is just a mock battle, a ploy to deceive the electorate, so that the CSU can outdo the AFD and win the upcoming elections in Bavaria.

  9. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    When commissar Merkel is done, she will have inflicted more damage on Western Europe than all the Soviet leaders put together.

    • andra says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:24 pm

      She is not the only traitor. She has got enough others in her team, like Macron, May, Rutte, Junkers, Timmermans, Renzi, Tzipras.

      • Mary says

        Jun 21, 2018 at 9:22 am

        You forgot truedo

  10. American says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    Merkel is a disingenuous liar who’s behavior is traitorous to both Germany and Western Civilization. She should be in the dock awaiting trial for what she’s done.

  11. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    Help them where they are — after all, you won’t be able to help anyone if you destroy Europe. As they say on planes, put on your own oxygen mask first, then your child’s. Save Europe if you want to save anyone else.

    And Merkel should go. She may have destroyed Europe in the long run, and she deserves to be thrown out of office ASAP never to return.

    • clap says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:19 pm

      She deserves to be hung for treason. Actually, exile her from Europe and send her to live in an islamic country so she can be with her beloved muslims.

      • Ginny says

        Jun 21, 2018 at 5:54 am

        She already has fincas waiting for her in Paraguay. She can join the Bushes there.

        • Carolyne says

          Jun 21, 2018 at 1:00 pm

          Venezuela would also be a good place for Merkel, and while we are at it, Obama, too.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 21, 2018 at 9:19 pm

          The Bushes do not live in Paraguay.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    Germany: Merkel flip-flops again, says she supports Italy’s anti-migrant policy
    ……………………

    If I thought she were sincere I’d applaud–but she has burned people too many times before.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 8:39 pm

      Seconded, gravenimage. Only fools would put any trust into what Merkel says. She is beyond wretched; a loathsome person indeed. And the damage she is doing to Germany, and Europe in general, approaches the incalculable.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 9:00 pm

        Grimly true.

        Hard to believe there was a time when she seemed like on of the saner leaders in Europe…

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 21, 2018 at 9:24 pm

          one of the saner

  13. Lydia Church says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    There are some super orator leaders out there…. who can talk…. from both sides of their mouth!

    • Indiana Tom says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 10:01 pm

      Sort of like Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody.

  14. Indiana Tom says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Merkel is a flip flop and a product of East German Communism. She has really been taking germany down the Islamic garden path.

  15. Johm says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 3:42 am

    Germany will end up in the gutter of Islamic geopolitical system waste !

  16. Fred says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 4:36 am

    Merkel wants 12 million more Muslim migrants in the eu? No wonder the Eastern European countries are building fences and lapsing laws. If she got her way an let in 12 million, 25 million more would converge on. The eu, The sad fact is that there are many more ultra poor Muslims than the eu could ever supply welfare pat too, They would cause civil war by eu citizens trying to not become paupers and having to become tribesmen themselves

    • andra says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 10:19 am

      The EU leaders decided in 2004 to import 50 million Arabs and Africans in the years coming As far as I know this decision was nemine contradicente.

  17. Joe says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 4:42 am

    Libya had a stable government and the 2nd highest GDP per capita in Africa, until the USA and Europe removed the government and created a vacuum of chaos.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 9:34 pm

      Libya was a Jihad state–are you really defending Lockerbie? *Ugh*.

      Of course, now Libya is even worse–this is not uncommon with Islam.

      And the US and Europe were never in Libya–unless you think that Ambassador Chris Stevens caused the problem by letting Muslims murder him?

  18. JDow says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 4:43 am

    It’s too late Darth Merkel. The electorate is on to you.
    {^_-}

    • Ginny says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 5:59 am

      Leider, noch nicht.

  19. WESTPAC Spy says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 6:24 am

    I read the article and I want to comment on it. But by the time I scroll down I think maybe I’ve lost the entire track.

    Did I read that correctly? She wants to reduce immigration to Europe, and she thinks one way to do that is to have an asylum office/facility in Libya?

    • WESTPAC Spy says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 6:27 am

      I don’t do “insane” very well so I may need a little help.

  20. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 7:23 am

    She has no idea what to do. She is fixated on retaining her power, and will take actions that hurt her country, if she thinks it will help her keep power. She is unfit for public office.

    • andra says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 10:22 am

      She knows exactly what she is doing. She wants to change the German society for ever. And she is still working on that plan.

  21. Giacomo Latta says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 10:59 am

    The worst part of her Germany-is-now-open-to-anybody policy is that she did not lease the Queen Mary II, Love Boat or whatever to take immigrants directly to Germany. Thus, innocent nations had to break their budgets to put up fences around their entire country. Why they are not suing Germany for these costs caused by Merkel the halfwit is beyond me.

  22. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    “‘…One wonders which Angela Merkel is talking from day to day…”

    Could Angela be suffering an age related form of cognitive decline? Whose job would it be to investigate?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 9:13 pm

      Unfortunately, dhimmitude is quite common, and cannot be chalked up to dementia.

  23. Troybeam says

    Jun 22, 2018 at 7:50 am

    So much to say, better let the ship sink on its own accord.

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