Merkel's party has another disastrous showing as a result of refugee invasion

Guardian Web September 20, 2016 at 6:45 am 11 News

Angela Merkel has taken responsibility for her party’s disastrous showing in Sunday’s Berlin state election, admitting mistakes in her handling of last year’s refugee crisis.

In an unusually self-critical but also combative speech, the German chancellor said on Monday afternoon she was “fighting” to make sure that there would be no repetition of the chaotic scenes on Germany’s borders last year, when “for some time, we didn’t have enough control”: “No one wants a repeat of last year’s situation, including me,” Merkel said.

However, Merkel did not distance herself from her decision last September to keep open Germany’s borders to thousands of refugees stranded at Budapest’s Keleti station. The mistake, the chancellor said, was that she and her government had not been quicker to prepare for the mass movement of people triggered by conflicts in the Middle East. “I wish I could turn back time,” she said.....To Read More.....