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| Angela Merkel's response to the migrant crisis has made things worse |
After the carnage of two world wars in the first half of the 20th century, both of them sparked by the country’s rampant territorial ambitions and maniacal leaders, the EU’s founding fathers believed that the best way to control Teutonic aggression was through the establishment of a federal superstate. But, as with everything that the EU does, this approach has failed disastrously.
Far from curbing German influence, the Brussels regime has served as a vehicle for cementing German dominance of Europe.
The EU is essentially a German-led entity with Berlin’s politicians now dictating the fate of the continent as surely as if they were in command of occupying armies.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is truly the empress of this realm, capable of ruining entire European societies with just a word from her cold lips.
It is a familiar role for Germany. Ever since it first became a unified state in 1871, it has been a menace to the peace and stability of Europe.
In the modern history of the world no other advanced nation has come close to inflicting such repeated damage or spreading such profound misery.
Now the German political class is at it again, dragging Europe towards permanent ruin through its spectacular mishandling of the immigration crisis.
The scenes of chaos throughout Europe are a monument to the appalling vanity of Merkel and large sections of the German public. In their mix of shortsightedness and smugness they are the architects of this present catastrophe.
It was Merkel who opened the floodgates by declaring last month that Germany would take in more than 800,000 migrants this year alone.
That was a clear invitation for thousands to venture across the Mediterranean from north Africa and the Middle East, most of whom are neither Syrian nor refugees. » | Leo McKinstry | Monday, September 28, 2015
