Merkel faces domestic revolt over refugee welcome – Yahoo …
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Merkel faces domestic revolt over refugee welcome – Yahoo …
Oct 15, 2015 – From Yahoo News: Germany’s Angela Merkel is used to owning the room when … the borders as Germany expects up to one million migrants this year. … A letter by an initial 34 CDU members protesting against her policy has …
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November 13th, 2015 @ 9:53 am
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“The chancellor believes the nation can manage the crisis, but this belief is rapidly vanishing in the country,” said the newspaper.
– ‘We can do it’ –
In a crisis that is local, regional and international, Merkel was heading to a Brussels summit to reiterate her call for European “solidarity” and push for member-states to share the burden in a quota system.
On Sunday, she jets off to Turkey to discuss with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan how to slow the inflow sparked by war and upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa, with almost 600,000 people arriving in Europe so far this year.
On the home front, Merkel has bravely insisted “we can do it”, recalling US President Barack Obama’s campaign rallying cry of “Yes we can”.
But many Germans — who in the summer greeted refugees at railway stations — are losing faith as thousands keep coming daily and improvised refugee centres are bursting at the seams, including tent cities exposed to below-zero temperatures as winter approaches.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that “the revolution” Merkel had sought to lead within her party “threatens to derail”.
The CDU has seen the defection of several thousand members, while usually rock-solid approval ratings for Merkel and her party are slipping