Ο Ronald Meinardus γράφει για το πρόβλημα της Γερμανίας με τη βία και εξηγεί γιατί η αναμενόμενη άνοδος των λαϊκιστικών κομμάτων τροφοδοτείται από την αυξανόμενη απογοήτευση των Γερμανών με την κυβέρνηση στο Βερολίνο.
“I am angry and furious,” said Scholz when he visited the crime scene on Monday. As an immediate response, the chancellor announced stricter weapons laws and increased deportations. Even government officials concede that Berlin has struggled to manage these issues effectively. Critics—whose numbers are growing—argue that the government has lost control of the borders. The statistics speak for themselves: the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that 380,000 unauthorized entries were recorded in the European Union last year—the highest number since 2016. Notably, 260,000 of these illegal migrants ended up in Germany, including 54,000 from Syria alone and 35,000 each from Turkey and Afghanistan.