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LurkerJ on 14 June 2016
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Louie said:
Scisca said:

I said sane and reasonable.

When I look at Germany, I'm starting to see the same arrogance that lead them to start the First and Second World War. They are objectifying other countries and treating them like tools and pawns on their gameboard, not sovereign partners. Look at the immigrant crisis - they are violating and ignoring existing laws. Cause they are Germany - they don't give a f*** about laws if they don't like these laws. Now they are forcing the mandatory automatic distribution of migrants that they invited to Europe - despite no legal basis for this. They use political and economic blackmail to force other countries to deal with the consequences of their mistakes. Genuine spirit of European cooperation.

Don't mix up Germany or the general population and the german government. Merkel is under a lot of criticism here and the way she handled immigration is the reason why her party went from 40%+ in polls to just around 30%. Ironically, it was WWII guilt that pushed Merkel into embracing large numbers of immigrants without a plan. I'm pro-immigration leaning by the way. But the way Merkel handled this was desastrous. That "immigration deal" she reached with Turkey was just another case of her dropping the ball. 

I thought Merkel was doing a decent job during her first and second term in office but right now? Hell no. The current immigration crisis (again: without any sort of plan), the resurgence of the far-right political wing in Germany, the Turkish President getting involved in german politics because Merkel depends on his mercy (to keep the borders shut), worsening of EU relationships (very pro-european guy here)... and all that because Merkel spontaneously said "we can do this!" when asked about immigrants from Syria and other countries. And after that she was too stubborn to aknowledge she made a mistake with that statement. 

As for being more on-topic: What Europe really needs in my opinion is an actual, democratically elected Parliament that has actual power. Europe needs more democracy, not more than two dozen nation state governments battling it out. It's not the european people who are the problem. It's the political elite. I want Britain to stay but I can't blame the 50% who want to leave considering the current state of the union. 

Hats off.