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Germany's U-turn on migration: Is it necessary or just politics?
euronews (in English)
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02/02/2024
Germany has taken a sharp turn in its migration policy compared to the 'welcoming measures' associated with the 'Merkel era'. Euronews reporter Monica Pinna went to Berlin to discover what has changed and why.
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A lot of people seeking shelter in Germany don't realize how much resources have come to their limits.
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[speaking German]
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What do you think about the deportation plan?
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That's what neo-Nazis, what the AfD was always talking about.
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This part of the camp was added last year because we realized we need additional places.
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So we built an additional 3,000 places for refugees to stay.
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In the beginning this was like a hub, a logistical center where people arrived
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and from where they would pass on to other destinations.
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Since then, things have changed because it has become more and more difficult for people to find private housing in Berlin.
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Refugees actually stay permanently.
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If the demand increases again, what's going to happen?
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All over Berlin, new building sites are being designated for either temporary container villages
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and also for permanent new buildings.
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So there's a new building program and of course that takes time.
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But at the moment, we have the emergency housing and we need it.
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The current government, when they took office, they signed a coalition agreement
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where they said we want a shift of paradigm in migration policy.
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There are a lot of people who say 2015-16 should never repeat,
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where more than one million Syrians mostly came to Germany.
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The conservative party is going into a much more stricter and tougher rule.
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With these really large numbers and also this whole feeling of losing control
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by the many people in the electorate, the discourse got much more agitated.
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Of course, also with the success of the right-wing populists,
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the alternative for Germany.
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For the first time after the Second World War,
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a very open fascist party is rising to power,
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especially in the east of Germany.
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We have on one side a government which is moving to the right
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and also on the other side a mass movement from the very right.
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This dynamic is part of the problem.
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