Posted on 10/04/2022 8:19:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday it’s giving its highest award to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to welcome more than 1 million refugees — mostly from Syria — into Germany, despite some criticism both at home and abroad.
Matthew Saltmarsh, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Merkel had been selected as the latest recipient for the Nansen award, which is handed out annually by the Geneva-based U.N. agency.
“Under the then-Federal Chancellor Merkel’s leadership, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum-seekers in 2015 and 2016, which, as you will remember, was the height of the conflict in Syria, and there was deadly violence in other parts of the world,” Saltmarsh told reporters. “Dr. Merkel helped to highlight the plight of refugees globally.”
Merkel’s decision to let in so many migrants boosted the far-right Alternative for Germany party and resulted in protests by a vocal minority. She was also blasted by some governments for being too friendly to refugees, when some European Union partner states were closing borders to refugees and asylum-seekers.
The award includes a $150,000 prize. Merkel is expected to travel to Geneva next Monday to receive the award, Saltmarsh said. Four regional winners were also announced.
The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honors individuals, groups or organizations that go “above and beyond the call of duty” to protect refugees, other displaced and stateless people, the agency says.
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Gee that’s a shock. I mean she did exactly what the U.N. wanted. How could they not give her the award. 😋
The award includes a $150,000 prize”
Not much of a payoff for destroying a country.
Oh yes, letting in those people who found teenage girls in Germany taking high school PE class objectionable.
Politicians do more damage...
It was the greatest refugee flow in Europe since WWII
Another deep-state/cia manufactured color-revolution / war, using bought and paid-for radicals on the fringe of a nation’s culture/politics. Not dissimilar from Ukraine
Who was President? Hope-and-Change Barack Obama.
I guess Brandon is next!
Oh, we will get a special super-duper award from the U.N.
And that’s one reason why she betrayed her country. Another reason is that she wants to rise to the top in the EU government.
Wasn’t Merkel outed recently as a Russian mole? I guess they are doubling down on her for her crimes. Typical communist ploy.
Merkel wins an award and dozens of German women get sexually assaulted as a result of her lax stance on immigration. Talk about screwed up?
Destroys Germany
Gets award
Nightmare....1.2 million....God help Germany.
Will any of it be passed on to the rape victims of her invited invasion of violent third world Muslims who see white women as whores who deserve to be raped?
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