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Merkel’s fading star


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2018 Jul 8, 5:01am   1,827 views  4 comments

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For many years German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been regarded, with reason, as the most powerful woman in the world. Over the past few months Merkel’s authority has diminished precipitously, however, mainly due to her irrational immigration policy. That much became obvious at last weekend’s emergency EU summit on immigration.

The meeting was hastily convened at Merkel’s insistence to develop a joint European strategy to deal with the ongoing migrant onslaught. In reality it was meant to be “Operation Save Mutti”: a means of preventing her government’s collapse by showing that the Union can develop a tougher immigration strategy. Her goal was to ease the pressure from the Christian Social Union (CSU)—her Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) Bavarian partner—which had threatened to leave her ruling coalition unless she agreed to end her open door policy. CSU leader Horst Seehofer had threatened to resign as Germany’s interior minister unless Merkel agreed to refuse entry to migrants who had applied for asylum elsewhere in the EU, potentially forcing an early election at which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) would be likely to increase its share of the vote.

“This is not about whether Frau Merkel stays as Chancellor next week or not,” Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, announced as he came out of the meeting in Brussels. Unwittingly (or perhaps mendaciously), he let the cat out of the bag. Indeed, the summit’s true objective was to appease Merkel’s domestic detractors—but the task proved to be beyond her. The former powerbroker of Europe has been reduced to the mendicant pleading for the appearance of unanimity on a key issue which has divided the EU and changed the political landscape of Europe beyond recognition.

The Brussels “deal” merely asks member-countries to voluntarily accept migrants in the name of “solidarity,” and to settle them in “processing centers” (don’t call them “camps,” please!). It does not say where those centers would be located, how they would be organized, or where unsuccessful asylum seekers would go in the end. It also proposes the creation of “disembarkation platforms” in non-EU countries, to deter Africans and others from crossing the Straits of Sicily. It is some light years away from Merkel’s earlier calls for a “joint European solution” which would have entailed mandatory resettlement quotas, and thus facilitated the creation of Sharia-based no-go areas in Central European countries unaffected by the demographic jihad thus far.

The plan is a meaningless fudge. For starters, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt have already announced that they will not cooperate in setting up migrant processing centers on their territory; in reality they may relent, but only if their leaders are encouraged with billions of mainly German taxpayers’ euros. The Visegrad Four (Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Slovakia) are adamant that they will not accept a single migrant, either voluntarily or under mandatory EU quita system previously proposed by Merkel. Italy’s sovereignist new government is skeptical: its leaders note that there is no binding agreement, and that “voluntary” EU arrangements invariably fail. Whatever its operating terms, “the deal highlights Merkel’s journey from championing Wir schaffen das to running a government with an ever-tougher approach to migration.” Her forced conversion is only tactical, though. She remains, somewhat inexplicably, a population-replacement fanatic at heart; but she has run out of good options to maintain the old consensus.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose country took over the EU six-month presidency on July 1, says that protecting European citizens – not showing “solidarity” and “compassion,” as per Merkel’s standard rhetoric – remained the bloc’s top priority: “We need a paradigm shift in our migration policy. We need to focus more on the safeguarding of our external borders as the precondition for a common border-free Europe.” Herr Kurz and his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen a month ago suggested sending failed asylum applicants to camps inside Europe, but outside the EU borders. (Let it be added this plan would resolve nothing in the long term, as most migrants would remain within a few hours’ journey from the EU heartland where they long to go—and it may have catastrophic consequences for the non-EU countrues in the Balkans.)

The circle between Merkel’s and Kurz’s visions cannot be squared. In 2015 Merkel’s open-door policy flooded Germany with over a million unassimilable, unemployable, often hostile and disproportionally criminal-minded aliens, most of them young Muslim men from the Greater Middle East. Their presence has drastically reduced the quality of life of millions of Germans who had never been asked whether they supported the influx. The rise of the AfD reflects a tectonic shift in the country’s politics. Even within Merkel’s CDU, Chancellor Kurz (31) is seen by many as the role-model for a new generation of leaders who could turn a new leaf, after decades of tepid centrism, failed pandering to multiculturalism, and last year’s worst electoral result since 1949.

To Germany’s east, Viktor Orban in Budapest, Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Warsaw, and their less outspoken but staunchly like-minded colleagues in Prague and Bratislava, have every reason to revel in the way their position on immigration has been vindicated in countries as diverse as Italy, Austria, Slovenia, and Denmark. The balance of power in Europe has shifted, irreversibly, away from Merkel’s liberal consensus which ruled the Old Continent only two years ago. It is an even bet that the Leaderin will not remain at the helm for the three remaining years of her unprecedented fourth term. It is well-nigh certain that she will not run for Germany’s top office again. To her chagrin, millions of Europeans—Germans included—are rediscovering the vital importance of identity and cohesion based on shared ancestry and culture. The discourse in Brussels has not caught up with this new reality, but in the fulness of time it will.

As I noted in these pages nine months ago, Merkel’s 2015 migrant experiment was a massive and unprecedented exercise in social engineering, worthy of similar national-socialist and communist horrors. It is not by chance that the survivors of red totalitarianism in the former German Democratic Republic and their descendants are voting for the AfD en masse. It is also not surprising that the former Soviet bloc countries of the Visegrad group remain solidly united in defense of national sovereignty and cohesion. They know ideologically driven idiots when they see them, and they are able and willing to stand up to them. Merkel’s greatest contribution to the history of Europe may be that with her suicidal bullying she has forced millions of otherwise complacent hedonists to wake up. Angela delenda est.

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/merkels-fading-star/

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1   Shaman   2018 Jul 8, 8:38am  

Frau Merkel will not be remembered kindly.

Inviting hordes of uncivilized hostile barbarians with a stated intent to claim territory for their violent religion? I can’t imagine a less beneficial policy for any leader to adopt. This result was completely foreseeable by anyone with over room temperature IQ. Unfortunately, some people have been MISeducated so hard that they have learned to abandon sense when making decisions, relying instead on “the feelz.”
2   Tenpoundbass   2018 Jul 8, 8:57am  

Quigley says
Inviting hordes of uncivilized hostile barbarians with a stated intent to claim territory for their violent religion?


She was convinced that her Bestie Obama had the foreseeable future sewn up with Stacked leaders against their constituents best interests.

The Liberals Socialists the Commies and Marxists really were hell bent and intent on replacing typical National voters who loved what ever their country once was.
I still say Bono should be investigated he was the Money Launderer from the African Sub-Saharan that allowed the war lords that ripped those countries apart to be financed and to move their blood money as they rapped what ever resources were there. He was the EU's personal Syd Bloomenthal. Doing the Bilderburg's dirty work.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Jul 8, 11:35am  

Quigley says
Inviting hordes of uncivilized hostile barbarians with a stated intent to claim territory for their violent religion? I can’t imagine a less beneficial policy for any leader to adopt. This result was completely foreseeable by anyone with over room temperature IQ. Unfortunately, some people have been MISeducated so hard that they have learned to abandon sense when making decisions, relying instead on “the feelz.”


This was the moment.

The Germans had just told the rest of Europe to go F themselves during the financial crisis. Merkel was so tone deaf, she tried to repair Germany's reputation (and fill in ever-more-empty B&Bs and apartments) by importing workers, but not ones from Greece or Hungary, but the MENA. She basically said FU to the Europoors and brought in Bummy Akbars instead.
4   zzyzzx   2018 Jul 12, 10:53am  

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/it-takes-twelve-germans-to-work-and-pay-taxes-in-order-to-fund-the-cost-of-just-one-migrant/

It takes twelve Germans to work and pay taxes in order to fund the cost of just one rapefugee

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