A decade ago, Angela Merkel promised that her decision to open the country to the world would prove historic. She was right—just not in the way she hoped.
“I don’t believe that the ‘Wir schaffen das’ mentality has done any good for Europe,” said Danish Migration Minister Kaare Dybvad, calling mass migration “a huge economic deficit.”
Just eight weeks into office, Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces scepticism from voters, with only 18% saying he’s doing a better job than his CDU predecessor.
“I am now 70 years old, 35 years in the East, 35 years in politics, apparently two lives … and the second half cannot be understood without the first.”
