
Despite the migration crisis, Germany intends to adhere to a balanced budget that does not provide for new loans, the Chancellor Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with the Bild Am Sonntag newspaper. She also called for accelerating the judicial persecution of migrants-criminal migrants.
According to her, fears that migrant expenses will demand from the German government to get into debt, "are completely unfounded." “The budget without new debts is precisely reasonable for the country with the aging population,” she emphasized, calling it an investment in the future generation.
The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany also called not to turn a blind eye to violations of the law refugees, but at the same time not to condemn everyone in a row, Merkel RIA Novosti quotes. This discussion flared up after New Year's events in Cologne and other cities, whose residents were attacked by groups of men, among which there were many refugees.
According to the Frontex EU external borders, 1.8 million migrants arrived in the European Union for 2015. About a million they chose Germany: initially Merkel said that the country was ready to accept everyone, but had to refuse such a policy. The European Commission said that the current migration crisis in the world is the largest since World War II.
Migration policy Merkel led to a serious split in German society and became the subject of strict criticism of both the opposition and its supporters in the ruling coalition. In particular, the Bavarian Prime Minister Khorst Zeehofer stated that due to her policy, Germany is split, and Europe "is in stress and divided."
According to polls, more than 80 percent of the Germans believe that her government has lost control of the situation with refugees.
The Federal Chancellor itself noted that the migration crisis was the most difficult test for her, but she still considers her decision to decide the path of his decision.