Now You Say! German Chancellor Admits Immigration and Failed Assimilation Caused French Riots
More than a decade after Berlin opened the gates of Europe to mass migration, a German Chancellor has publicly admitted that importing millions of foreigners and the failure to integrate them is causing carnage in Europe.
On the sidelines of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin this week, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is concerned that riots in France and Italy could spill over into other European Union nations.
When pressed in an interview with Bloomberg as to the reasons for the unrest seen in cities like Paris and Milan, which have seen thousands of arrests, widespread looting, and arson attacks, Chancellor Merz admitted that it is “most likely” the result of “non-integrated people” due to “migration”.
He said this was leading citizens to vote in larger numbers for “extremely right and extremely left” political parties, creating “tensions and obviously riots in some countries, including France.”
The admission that mass migration and the failed attempts at assimilation are not only radicalising the host populations, but also responsible for violent civil unrest is quite striking from Merz, who leads the same Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party which sparked the European Migrant Crisis of 2015 under then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, resulting in one of the largest demographic shifts in modern history.
While Merz campaigned on clamping down on immigration, he largely abandoned this position after forming a coalition with the left-wing, pro-open-borders Social Democrats (SPD) rather than partnering with the anti-mass-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which he has claimed is outside the bounds of political acceptability.
During his 17-month tenure in office, Merz has frequently defended the need for continued mass migration into Germany and Europe as a whole, claiming that more waves of foreigners are required due to supposed shortages in the labour market and to mitigate the demographic impacts of an ageing population.
“Germany is a country of immigration. It has always been so; it is so now; and it will remain so,” he declared just last May.
Elsewhere in his sit-down with Bloomberg, Merz admitted that Germany and Europe feel a sense of “uncertainty” and “anxiousness”, saying people are concerned about rising energy costs, inflation, and housing costs.
“People are really fearing what is next and what comes in our future, and how can we establish our future for our kids and for our grandchildren? And that is something which is on the table of my government as well, to give people a certain degree of assurance and certainty that it’s worthwhile to live in Germany, to work in Germany, and that this remains a secure country,” he said.
However, Merz did not appear to recognise that mass migration exacerbated many of the issues he listed, straining the housing supply, while studies have consistently found that increased diversity lowers social trust. Recent police data found that migrants accounted for 42.9 per cent of all violent crime suspects in Germany.
Despite his previous claims of the need to prop up the welfare state with mass migration, recent government figures have thrown that paradigm into question, with the German state admitting earlier this month that four out of every five long-term welfare recipients are foreign nationals, undercutting the idea that migrants will be able to sustain such programmes for ageing Germans.
Meanwhile, other European leaders have also linked the riots in France to mass migration, particularly those from countries which rejected the push from Berlin and Paris to accept millions of foreigners during the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015. For example, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk — a globalist former EU chief — said this week of France’s immigration problems: “Poland will not repeat the mistakes of other European countries, nor will it pay for them.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar — who was hailed by liberals after defeating anti-mass migration stalwart Viktor Orbán — also remarked: “In the face of this senseless destruction and unjustified violence, perhaps it is now clear to everyone why Hungary advocates the strictest possible approach to migration, and why we will not weaken our border protection or immigration policy under any pressure.”
Both countries are currently at odds with Berlin, Brussels, and Paris over the controversial EU migration pact, which requires all member states to share the load of supposed asylum seekers, or face heavy penalties. Budapest and Warsaw have so far refused to abide by the agreement, saying that they will not be forced to take in illegal migrants from other European nations that fail to police their own borders.
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