Correspondent in Berlin,
It is a 300-page document written by brilliant academics adorned with the titles of doctors and distinguished politicians, which receives no echo in Germany.
The subject is not without importance: it is about the
“capacity”
of Germany to
“integrate”
its asylum seekers and to
“shape an immigration society”
.
This is the title of the report submitted on January 20 to Angela Merkel, which could have served as the basis for a legislature but is published only a few months before the Chancellor and the CDU / SPD coalition disappeared from the political scene.
A very relative paradox.
Germany has become
"by far, the first country of immigration in Europe and the second in the world behind the United States"
, recalls the document in its preamble, clearly displaying the color:
"German identity"
must be assimilated to
"openness"
.
Nearly 1.8 million people have been received in recent years under the asylum system,
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