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"Wir schaffen das" (English: "we can manage this"; "we can handle this"; or "we can do this") is a statement made by Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis. It has been described as a core slogan of the German concept of Willkommenskultur.
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, namely from the Middle East. An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum , [ 2 ] the most in a single year since World War II . [ 3 ]
Merkel has stated that her favorite film is The Legend of Paul and Paula, an East German movie released in 1973. [327] Merkel has a fear of dogs, which developed after she was attacked by one in 1995. [328] Vladimir Putin brought in his Labrador Retriever during a press conference in 2007. Putin claims he did not mean to scare her, though ...
The former German chancellor has spoken to The Rest is Politics podcast
The Valletta Summit on Migration between European and African leaders, on 11 and 12 November 2015, resulted in the EU creating an Emergency Trust Fund to create jobs in African countries, admit more Africans to Erasmus Plus study programmes, and set up regional development programmes in Africa, in return for African countries to counteract ...
Based on unofficial estimates, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said it believes 15,000 to 20,000 migrants are stranded in rural olive groves near the central Tunisian coastli
A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...
With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations, is a 2015 anti-immigration video released during the European migrant crisis. The video lasts for 19 and a half minutes. [1] The video focuses on the threat posed by mass migration. It was condemned by Vice Media as anti-migrant and counterfactual. [2]