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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Will she get repaid by the EU? Probably.   
      
   Chancellor Angela Merkel is setting aside €90m (£76m) in taxpayers’ money   
   to create a fund which will pay migrants to withdraw their asylum applications   
   and leave Germany voluntarily.    
   The handouts will form part of a 16-point plan to speed up the removal of   
   rejected asylum seekers, after Tunisian migrant Anis Amri murdered a Polish   
   lorry driver, hijacked his vehicle and drove it into a Christmas market in   
   Berlin while awaiting    
   deportation.   
      
   U.S. president Donald Trump told The Times that Merkel made a “catastrophic   
   mistake” when she opened the doors to an unlimited number of migrants in   
   2015. Her vice-chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, later admitted that his superior   
   had underestimated how    
   difficult it would be to integrate migrants on such a grand scale, and that   
   Germany had been plunged into a kulturkampf, or “cultural war”, as a   
   result.   
      
   Germany rejected 170,000 asylum claims in 2016 but, according to the Mail,   
   just 26,000 were repatriated. 55,000 more decided to leave voluntarily –   
   apparently leaving 81,000 bogus applicants unaccounted for.   
      
   “We rely heavily on voluntary departures,” admitted Chancellor Merkel, who   
   was announcing the package after falling behind the Social Democrats in polls   
   for Germany’s upcoming elections.   
      
   Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament who has been   
   nominated as the Social Democrat challenger to Merkel, said he backed the   
   proposals to speed up deportations.   
      
   Schulz has previously insisted that “the people who are arriving [in Europe]   
   are refugees who have been threatened [and] we should welcome them” – a   
   statement which is at odds with the Vice-President of the European   
   Commission’s admission that at    
   least 60 per cent are economic migrants.   
      
   As a leading figure in the European Union, Schulz was a strong supporter of   
   the compulsory migrant quotas. These were forced through by the bloc despite   
   strong opposition from central and eastern European member-states, which did   
   not agree with Germany’   
   s unilateral decision to throw open the borders.   
      
   Schulz hit out strongly at these countries in 2015, accusing them of   
   “national egotism in its purest form”.   
      
   Polish interior minister Mariusz Blaszczak described at Schulz’s words as   
   “an example of German arrogance”.   
      
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