A different perspective from some, I guess.
"About what we talked about concerning the refugee crisis
in 2015: What Angela Merkel did then, might have had the wrong effect,
spreading news that Germany "invites“ refugees in. But from how I
experienced the situation back then, it was a humanitarian measure in a
crisis and a situation that could easily have gone terribly wrong
claiming many lives. You also need to take our history into account.
After the war Germany was not severely punished and totally crushed for
what they had done but helped and supported to grow into a democratic
and prosperous country. So, I somehow also see it as an act of
gratefulness of a country that is doing well, helping others in an
emergency. I personally respect Merkel for what she did back then. The
side effects were, however, enormous and in the face of a new wave of
migrants, this kind of approach can´t continue. Putting people up for a
limited amount of time is relatively easy but integrating them into
society so that they don´t feel permanently on the margin is much more
complicated and can only work if many, many individuals help make it
possible by supporting those families and their children to get jobs,
housing and education. As we´ve seen with France for example,
frustration and segregation breeds violence. Maybe I´m a bit idealistic,
but I´ve met and befriended several refugee families and I see them as
individuals like me and you. A politician, of course, has to take the
global picture into account and that might lead to a different point of
view."
