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Germany: Merkel flip-flops again, says she supports Italy’s anti-migrant policy

JUN 20, 2018 9:39 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she wanted to support Italy in its efforts to reduce the number of migrants arriving on its shores, possibly handling asylum requests for Europe in non-European countries including Libya.

One wonders which Angela Merkel is talking from day to day.

She has been aggressively pushing for the EU to take in more migrants. The “migrant mayhem” that rocked Germany due to her reckless immigration policy did not faze her, once the public backlash against her subsided in January 2017. In February 2017, Merkel “urged Europe to take in more refugees and said Islam is ‘not the source of terror.”

Yet only three months before that, Merkel surprised everyone by doing a complete about-face in response to humiliating electoral defeats and threats to her power, when she ordered the EU to “intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to North Africa.” That was short lived. The month after that, following the deadly Christmas market jihad attack, Merkel stated in a speech that Germany “fights terrorism with compassion,” as she again reiterated  her open-door migrant policy. Then this past April, Merkel  admitted that anti-Semitism was a problem in Germany, and that it was coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin.”

Merkel is not only unreliable but dangerous, and her U-turns are dizzying. This past February, she announced plans to use EU funds to help integrate migrants, while the year before that, she unveiled plans to bring in a whopping 12 million more migrants.  Now that so-called “right wing,” “populist” parties are growing as Europeans are starting to awaken, and her government is in trouble, Merkel feels that once again it is time for her to flip-flop so she can stay in power. Donald Trump noted yesterday that “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.”

Italy’s new anti-migration coalition recently announced that it would immediately begin to expel 500,000 migrants, as well as to shut down its borders to migrants by not allowing ships to dock. Let’s hope that Italy has noted Merkel’s convenient, erratic flip-flopping and disingenuousness with regard to Muslim migration.

After German Chancellor Angela Merkel took in over one million asylum seekers in 2015, the share of violent crimes committed by migrants between 2014 and 2016 more than tripled, from 4.3 percent to 13.3 percent.

“Merkel to Support Italy in Tackling Migration Challenge,” Reuters, June 18, 2018:

BERLIN (REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she wanted to support Italy in its efforts to reduce the number of migrants arriving on its shores, possibly handling asylum requests for Europe in non-European countries including Libya.

Most migrants attempting to reach Europe from Africa take the sea route from Libya to Italy, though last year saw a spike in numbers departing from Morocco to Spain instead.

“Italy is one of the countries that is receiving a lot of refugees as a first arrival country,” Merkel told reporters before talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

“We want to support Italy in its call for solidarity and hope that Germany will also be met with understanding when it comes to solidarity in Europe with the issues of migration.”

Merkel said her talks with Conte and other European leaders in coming weeks would focus on the question of how the European Union could enable a stable government in Libya and how its coast guard could be better trained.

“And how we can, if necessary, already carry out asylum-related proceedings there. These are all questions that we will discuss in the coming months and where we want to work very closely together,” Merkel said.

Matteo Salvini, interior minister in the anti-establishment government that took office this month in Rome, has adopted a policy of blocking foreign humanitarian boats from Italian ports, which has triggered heated exchanges with France and the Netherlands.

Conte has spoken of the need for European-run immigration offices outside Europe to prevent “voyages of death”. More than 3,000 migrants died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2017, according to the U.N. Migration Agency (IOM)….