German Chancellor defends her decision on refugees
(VOVWORLD) - Angela Merkel has said she has no qualms about her decision to open Germany’s doors to refugees in 2015, arguing that the policy was “humane” and a reaction to an emergency situation.
 German Chancellor defends her decision on refugees |
The German Chancellor said she was convinced that she had made the right decision to allow safe passage – for which she took a political hit in Germany and which appears to have driven the rise of the right-wing populist AfD party. She said the policy was justified at the time because of the emergency situation during that particular period.
Germany took in around 890,000 asylum applications in 2015, though the figure dropped significantly by in the following year to 280,000.