Angela Merkel faces new rebellion over refugees <div itemprop="video" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"><iframe src="//player.theplatform.com/p/NnzsPC/widget/select/media/TR2n6VoUM8Kp?disableEndCard=true" width="480" height="270" frameBorder="0" seamless="seamless" allowFullScreen></iframe></div> Angela Merkel is facing a fresh rebellion over her refugee policy, with more than 40 politicians from her Christian Democrat party reportedly signing a petition to close Germany's borders to asylum seekers. The rebels plan to call for a vote on the proposal at the next party meeting on January 26. Mrs Merkel has come under intense pressure to change her “open-door” refugee policy since it emerged that asylum seekers were among the suspects in the New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Cologne. More than 650 women have now come forward to file criminal complaints over the attacks, around 45 per cent of them for sexual assault. more...
Really? I think she kicks major ass. An incredible story, really, versus most world leaders. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german
deflationary austerity, plunder of sovereign state assets on behalf of bankers, federalization of europe, mass undocumented immigration -- she's been the lead rallyperson behind each of these
Yeah, the austerity was not very smart. Totally agree with you. That's because she's more physical chemist, at her roots, than theoretical physicist.
