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“’We can do it’ has become its own thing. Never mind”
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Famous selfie from September 2015: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) photographed herself with a refugee
Source: pa / dpa / Bernd von Jutrczenka
Even today, he sees Chancellor Angela Merkel’s (CDU) most famous ruling on the refugee crisis with different eyes. She “got a little too independent.” But many people would have accomplished a lot.
KAngela Merkel (CDU) responded to a journalist’s question about the much criticized phrase “We can do it.” He said this sentence five years ago in a “very special situation” that was also a great challenge. “This sentence stands on its own.”
Merkel said at her traditional summer press conference in Berlin on Friday that she became too independent at times. “Anyway, we have accomplished a lot since then. And when I say ‘we’, there are many, many people who have helped. “
Many refugees who are now graduating from high school or beginning their studies have also played their part. In this sense, it never occurred to me to repeat this phrase. “Each crisis has its own language.
Merkel referred to European migration policy, which is one of the priorities of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU. She said that there is still no autonomous European migration policy system. So there is still a lot to do. “But you can do that too, if you want.”
Merkel decided in the summer of 2015 to keep the borders open and initially allow refugees to enter without registering. Faced with the huge influx of refugees, he famously uttered the phrase “We can do it” on August 31, 2015. Germany is strong enough to host refugees.
North Rhine-Westphalia Refugee Minister Joachim Stamp (FDP) accused Merkel of communication errors in the crisis at the time on Friday. This also included the selfies that Merkel took with the refugees. In many countries, smugglers misused it as a propaganda tool and sold it as a blanket invitation: “That completely escaped the Chancellor in terms of communication.”
The FDP politician emphasized that the FDP politician emphasized that another mistake had caused the large influx of refugees: “The aid funds promised to Syria’s neighboring states, which have provided a large number of refugees, were not paid as agreed. “. There were drastic cuts in supplies for the refugees, who would later have made their way to Europe.
