Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros to support record numbers of migrants

Angela Merkel: The Lady of the Hour, who will be remembered in history like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

Angela Merkel: The Lady of the Hour, who will be remembered in history like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

Source: BBC

Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx.

Critics at home have accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of creating a dangerous precedent by opening Germany’s borders.

About 18,000 migrants arrived over the weekend after an agreement with Austria and Hungary to relax asylum rules.

But Austria’s Chancellor Werner Faymann has said the emergency measures must come to an end.

He said they would move step by step “towards normality”, after speaking to Chancellor Merkel and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday.

Hungary had previously blocked migrants travelling to Western Europe, but dropped restrictions on Friday and shuttled people to the Austrian border.

At Hungary’s border with Serbia construction work continues on the border fence, as people continue to stream across the border, unchallenged by police, the BBC’s James Shaw reports.

Meanwhile migrants are continuing to arrive at Munich station.

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3 replies

  1. A long long time ago, I read a novel about Europe being swamped by migrants arriving on a 200’000 tons supertanker, about 200’000 Bangladeshis swamped Southern France. Well, now they arrived on foot …

  2. The real viable solution to this issue and crisis can never be sought because it will require end of bloodshed in the region which is totally not acceptable to Germany’s NATO allies.

    Why billion air sheikhs, human right organizations and US media are silent?

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