ER Editor: The economic argument about mass migration. The statistics are interesting and a little jaw-dropping with respect to Afghans and Syrians in Germany in the article below. Evidently, mass migration was put in place to, among other things, destroy national economies.
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Readers may also be interested in this from European Conservative concerning Austria. Sebastian Kurz, incidentally, was one of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) pretty poster boys, who had to step down over wrongdoing (lying to Parliament, financial impropriety, &etc.). A reminder that he was Austrian foreign minister in his diapers, who then became Chancellor no less. Likely, he may have done far more of a criminal nature than what we were told back then —
A Decade After “Wir schaffen das,” Austria Declares Merkel’s Migration Policy a Failure
Ten years after Germany opened its borders to hundreds of thousands of mostly Syrian refugees, leading Austrian politicians have branded Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision a historic mistake.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker and former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz both argue that Merkel’s ‘open doors’ approach created lasting problems for Europe that are still unresolved today.
Stocker, reflecting on the so-called refugee summer of 2015, said in an interview with daily Kronen Zeitung: “Opening the borders was a mistake.”
He insisted that while humanitarian considerations matter, Austria cannot accept a system in which asylum is used as a cover for economic migration. “What does not work is that someone comes to us and says asylum, but really means social benefits,” Stocker warned, pledging that such a policy would never be repeated in Vienna.
Kurz, who at the time was minister of foreign affairs, went even further. In a television interview, he said unlimited immigration was doomed to fail, praising Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s hard-line stance as “simply right” at the time.
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Germany’s Ruling CDU Party Targets Afghan & Syrian Benefit-Recipients In Push To Cut “Unsustainable” Welfare Budget
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News
Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU bloc is demanding stricter limits on welfare, with party leaders pointing to high rates of reliance on the citizen’s allowance among Afghans and Syrians.
Deputy parliamentary group leader Mathias Middelberg said job centers must do more to place these groups into work, stressing there is “still considerable potential for catching up in terms of taking up employment.”
“Just 100,000 more people in work instead of relying on the citizen’s allowance could, depending on wage levels, relieve the federal budget in the low single-digit billion range every year,” the lawmaker told Bild.
According to government figures cited by Middelberg, 52.8 percent of Syrians and 46.7 percent of Afghans in Germany rely on the citizen’s allowance, while only 36.7 percent of Syrians and 37 percent of Afghans hold jobs subject to social security contributions.
“We cannot accept that hundreds of thousands of young asylum seekers here in Germany are unemployed for decades,” he said.
The call comes amid soaring welfare costs, with annual spending on the citizen’s allowance at around €52 billion. Statistics from the Federal Employment Agency (BA) last year showed that of the more than 4 million people who can work but receive social benefits, more than 2.5 million have a migration background, constituting 63.5 percent.
At the start of 2024, of the 2.6 million non-Germans registered for benefits, 706,000 were from Ukraine, 512,000 from Syria, and 201,000 from Afghanistan.
CSU leader Markus Söder and CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann said that those unwilling to work should no longer receive support.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz reinforced the message over the weekend, warning that Germany’s welfare model is no longer sustainable. “The welfare state as we have it today is no longer financially viable with what we are achieving economically,” he said.
Rising unemployment, bankruptcies, and inflation risks are also evidence of the mounting strain.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel slammed the Grand Coalition government for continuing to oversee Germany’s economic decline on Tuesday, pointing to figures cited by Welt, which revealed 114,000 industrial jobs had been lost within the last year.
“The politically motivated deindustrialization continues unabated, even more than six months after the new elections. No economic turnaround without the AfD!” she wrote.
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Featured image source, Kurz: https://www.politico.eu/article/former-austrian-chancellor-sebastian-kurz-convicted-of-lying-to-parliament/
Featured image source, migrants: https://www.reuters.com/world/germanys-migration-commissioner-proposes-rwanda-migrant-deportation-plan-2024-09-05/
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