GERMANY_ Nothing Can Take Down Angela Merkel — Except 800,000 Refugees

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Nothing Can Take Down Angela Merkel — Except 800,000 Refugees

In the face of overwhelmed social services and a violent, resurgent right wing, the German chancellor is sticking with her open-arms policy on asylum-seekers. Can her political career survive?

By Paul Hockenos
October 22, 2015





BERLIN — Never in her 10-year tenure as chancellor has Angela Merkel found herself so isolated, and under such unremitting attack, as she is today.

At home, high-profile figures in her own party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who have taken her to task in public, are now planning an outright revolt; German voters who until recently adored the popular chancellor are, according to opinion polls, steadily abandoning her; and a radicalized far-right, of the sort now on the rise across Europe, is resurgent in opinion polls and on the German street. On the European level, just months ago, Germany appeared to rule the roost, handing down bailout terms to Greece with the support of practically the rest of the continent. Now Merkel can’t seem to scare up more than a handful of allies to back her plans to distribute refugees across the EU. The refugee crisis — an estimated 800,000 asylum applicants are expected to arrive in Germany this year alone — has become a watershed moment; Merkel’s political future depends on Germany meeting the challenge.

READ MORE: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/22/nothing-can-take-down-angela-merkel-except-800000-refugees-germany-cdu-pegida/

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