sat 30 jan 2016, 16:36

Chancellor stresses ’temporary stay’ for refugees

Merkel: Back to Syria

Amsterdam –

Who came to Europe fleeing the war in Syria and Iraq, should be back as soon as the war was over. With those words trying Angela Merkel, the critics of its refugee policy get silent.

The popularity of the German chancellor, is steadily decreasing since the borders of her country unconditionally opened for war refugees and fortune seekers in their wake. Last year there were 1.1 million asylum seekers to the federal republic of germany.

With crucial state elections coming on, try to Merkel to limit the damage. “We need these people to make clear that their stay here is temporary”, said the politician at a partijbijeenkomst of her own CDU. “If there is peace in Syria, and as the Islamic State in Iraq has been defeated, we require that they return.”

Seventy percent of the people in the nineties, on the run from the Yugoslav wars to Germany came to be, according to Merkel, also went home when, on the Balkans was peace.

Except for the state elections and the rise in the polls of Alternative für Deutschland has Merkel also Horst Seehofer, leader of zusterpartij CSU, to fear. The man from Bavaria wants the federal government to court in drag as the influx of immigrants is not rapidly reduced.