Merkel Said: “the question of a majority decision [in favour of quotas] is not relevant there.”
Translation: After the Austrian and Italian elections, we no longer have the votes to force our agenda that way.
So she proposes “a plan recently advocated by left-liberal billionaire George Soros to send money to Africa to prevent further mass illegal migration. Soros called on the European Union to spend at least €30 billion per year for several years on the project, going into debt if needed, as he claimed the fate of the EU itself was at stake.”