{"id":6515,"date":"2016-03-18T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2016-06-14T05:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T04:05:29","slug":"germanys-merkel-voters-no-change-migration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/03\/18\/germanys-merkel-voters-no-change-migration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merkel to Voters: &#8220;No Change to Migration Policy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/03\/18\/germanys-merkel-voters-no-change-migration-policy\/merkel_petry\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6516\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6516\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merkel_petry.jpg\" alt=\"merkel_petry\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merkel_petry.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/merkel_petry-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chancellor Angela Merkel has reprimanded German voters for questioning her handling of the migration crisis.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany&#8217;s Merkel to Voters: &#8220;No Change to Migration Policy&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7644\/germany-elections-migration-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | March 18, 2016<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to continue her open-door migration policy \u2014 despite heavy losses in regional elections that were widely regarded as a referendum on that very policy.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was defeated in two out of the three federal states voting on March 13. By contrast, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) \u2014 an upstart anti-establishment party campaigning against Merkel\u2019s liberal migration policy \u2014 surged to double-digit results in all three states: Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference after the election results were in, Merkel remained defiant. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/multimedia\/sendung\/ts-13057.html\" target=\"_blank\">reprimanded<\/a> German voters for questioning her handling of the migration crisis: \u201cThere are people who did not listen to us at all and simply cast protest votes. We need to solve this [migrant] problem, not through theoretical debates, but by finding a [European] solution to the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7644\/germany-elections-migration-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel has reprimanded German voters for questioning her handling of the migration crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,181,195],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany&#039;s Merkel to Voters: &quot;No Change to Migration Policy&quot; - 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