A German father of four took Chancellor Angela Merkel to task over her refugee policy at a virtual town-hall style meeting. It’s a bitter taste of what’s to come as the longest-serving European Union leader prepares to stand for a fourth term.
Merkel spoke from Berlin on video chat to members of her Christian Democratic Union Party. A party member since last year, located just outside Frankfurt, told her on Thursday that for the first time in his life he was really afraid and that Merkel’s open-door policy to migrants ran against what many Germans wanted.
Even with a million migrants entering Germany from the Middle East and Africa since the beginning of last year, Merkel has stuck to her guns amid signs supporters might desert her. At the virtual gathering she acknowledged that "not everybody supports this policy” while promising that the rapid influx of refugees would never be repeated. ...
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