Posted on 11/25/2015 9:46:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Wednesday to stick to her open-door refugee policy, defying criticism at home and abroad which has intensified due to growing fears about a potential security risk after the Islamist attacks in Paris.
Conservative Merkel faces splits in her right-left coalition and pressure from EU states, including France, over her insistence that Germany can cope with up to 1 million migrants this year and that Europe must accept quotas to take them in.
In a 40-minute speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Merkel said the security threat level in Germany was high but insisted that people must carry on with normal life.
"The strongest response to terrorists is to carry on living our lives and our values as we have until now -- self-confident and free, considerate and engaged," she said to loud applause.
"We Europeans will show our free life is stronger than any terror," Merkel added, battling with a croaky voice.
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The German system is a parliamentary one and she can be removed by “a constructive motion of no confidence” (konstruktives misstrauensvotum).
Should say “Ceausescu”. (That’s what I get for trying to ue the spelling that has the s with a cedilla, or whatever that squiggly is called.)
Once the terrorists are in Germany they can go anywhere they want in Europe, so her actions threaten every other country as well.
Death of German culture bump for later...
Even without the 'potential' (yeah, right) security risk her policy is insane and criminal. She's got to go - prison, preferably.
ue = use
I have a feeling she’s permanently lost to reality...
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