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However, more and more people are expressing their disagreement with the German government's migration policy. According to the Independent, current opinion polls show that more than 80 per cent of Germans think Merkel's government has "lost control" of the refugee crisis. Merkel's policy has provoked serious dissent in German society and has been subject to sharp criticism both from the opposition and the allies in the ruling coalition. For instance, Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer says that "the country is divided" and "Europe is stressed and disunited".
The funds allocated to cope with refugees' influx have gone beyond all limits. A new study by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research says the German government will have to spend 50 billion euros on refugees during this year and next.
The Germans are displeased by the fact that Berlin has managed to achieve the balanced budget within several years by gradually limiting social benefits and increasing taxes. And now the money saved will be spent on migrants and financial help to the countries that can't cope with the crisis by themselves.
One by one the European states are temporarily suspending the Schengen agreement on open borders due to the unbalanced German policy. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said the EU's external borders are not secure enough. "Anyone who arrives at our border is subject to control," Faymann said, adding that economic migrants should go home.
So, Angela Merkel's migration policy has not gone down well in the European Union. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis of recent years, unilateral actions of European member-states may only strengthen the positions of Eurosceptics, accelerate the disintegration process and put the "whole EU in question" in the near future.
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George Koplan is a Global Politics researcher at the National University of Ireland.
What exactly is going on behind closed doors with regard to the apparent leaders of the EU? What agenda is being followed? Nothing is making sense excepting the bringing of Europe to its knees - perhaps in order to 'force' or induce more and more power consolidation behind the mask of political 'union'.
A Union is between two or more sovereign individuals. Not the subjugation and sacrifice of individuality to a collective suppression under the ruse of the greater common good.