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Angela Merkel on the admission of refugees: "Yes, we did it"

2021-11-07T21:55:34.128Z


Chancellor Angela Merkel remembers her term of office in an interview. She also refers to her legendary sentence from 2015 - and reveals what she intends to do in the future.


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Angela Merkel (at the beginning of the month in Bremerhaven): "We have wonderful examples of successful human developments"

Photo: FABIAN BIMMER / REUTERS

It is her last days in office: The only executive Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a detailed interview to Deutsche Welle (DW).

In it, she looks back on her reign and comments on her current state of health.

How is she currently experiencing the time?

On the one hand she was happy, she said - but also admitted: "A little bit of sadness will certainly come then, because I've always enjoyed my work, and I still enjoy doing it." She had to continue until the last day at work be attentive.

When asked by the moderator Max Hofmann whether Germany had mastered 2015 when up to 800,000 refugees sought refuge, she replied: "Yes, we did it!" , which at that time stood for Germany's migration policy.

In the interview, Merkel also said that not everything went “ideally”;

But many mayors and many volunteer helpers helped.

"We have wonderful examples of successful human developments when I think of high school graduates," said Merkel, referring to the refugees.

But he also added: “Of course we have not yet managed to tackle the causes of the flight.

We have not managed to ensure that Europe has a uniform asylum and migration system. «There is still a lot to be done here.

"Then I tell the young people: you have to put pressure on"

Merkel also spoke about the fight against the climate crisis: "We have to be very, very much faster." She had previously participated in this year's UN climate conference in Glasgow.

Now she was sure that the summit had already brought some results, "but from the perspective of young people it is still justifiably too slow."

She would tell the young people to put pressure on them.

But that was not an admission of having personally failed in climate policy.

The Chancellor added that majorities must be obtained for every climate protection measure, and that there are many fears of the social consequences of severe cuts in private consumption, for example.

Angela Merkel's future

What will Merkel do now when she is no longer Federal Chancellor?

“Now I don't know what to do next.

I said yes, I'll take a rest first and see what comes into my head, ”she said.

You will read and sleep a lot.

Merkel had already emphasized several times that she believed she could let go of power quite well, and she now repeated that in a DW interview.

In response to Hofmann's sentence that one could not even imagine that Merkel would no longer be in the Chancellery after 16 years, the head of government said: "You will get used to it."

Source: spiegel

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