hello and welcome to the gangle what we Challenge and if necessary destroy media narratives I'm George samueli and I just want to record a short um video about um recent developments in Germany as you know and we've um recorded a few podcasts about this uh Germany recently had um elections in uh two uh states that comprised the former German Democratic republics in turingia and in Saxony um and the alternative for deutchland party came in first in Singa and uh very close second in Saxony and uh there's another election that is scheduled for I think September the 22nd in Brandenburg which of course comprises uh Berlin and again the alternative for deutchland party uh is expected to do well currently it's leading in the polls and that would be particular particularly humiliating because uh Berlin has always been known as the base for the social Democrats historically it was it was always run by uh the social Democrats going all the way back into uh the 19th century so a humiliating defeat there at the hands of the uh alternative for deuts and would be very very uh humiliating for uh Chancellor Olaf Schulz so um the German political establishment is in absolute Panic about what's going on the the rise of the um afd and then alongside the rise of the leftist populist uh movement the buis Zara vagen um and together this left and right populism is really threatening to upend uh the German political scene so uh um one of the obviously there are many reasons for um the collapse of the German political establishment I think German de-industrialization the uh Germany uh having to pay for its energy um at exorbitant prices German manufacturing industry moving out of uh Germany um is giving rise to a great deal of anxiety among Germans as to you know where where is their country going because of course Germany has been the economic Powerhouse of Europe for decades it's manufacturing industry is second to none has a huge reputation all over the world and if Germany is going to start losing its markets um it's you know then you know you know Germany will not be able to sustain its comfortable prosperous lifestyle which it's been justifiably proud for uh decades so high energy costs and losing its uh market share in China in particular this is all giving rise to a great deal of concern among Germans but on top of that is the issue of uh migration and ever since Angela Merkel threw open the doors of Germany to migrants from the Middle East and uh Africa uh Germany has been inundated uh by immigrants um this has given rise to a a a crime wave um and on top of this crime wave um this basically the the uh German women are increasingly feeling insecure because many of the men come from you know uh countries um that uh have very different attitudes to the relationship between men and women and have very different attitudes to the way women should comport themselves in public and so when they uh come to Germany and see as in as they see in the rest of Europe you know women you know just wearing you know very you know minimal amount of clothing in the summer they naturally think that this is um I uh an opportunity for a you know help yourself uh so I think German women have been complaining bitterly that they no they no longer feel safe in um their own country and on top of that uh we had you know something like a million migrants from Ukraine coming into uh Germany so this again has put a great deal of strain on German Public Services because as with these um so-called Asylum Seekers from um Africa in the Middle East uh they basically get to stay indefinitely in Germany and get to uh collect um from the quite generous um German welfare state so clearly something needs to be done and um the uh recent murder of three bystanders in zingan at no less than a diversity Festival a festival to celebrate diversity uh by an asylum Seeker from Syria an asylum Seeker who had repeatedly been rejected for Asylum by one Court after another but who had nonetheless not been uh deported was really the final straw um it obviously it culminated in the um very good results for the uh the afd and for the sarahag next party um but now obviously the German political C feel that needs to do something it can't just be a freefor all with Asylum Seekers uh coming to Germany because that's the way the Asylum system works in Europe you go um to Bulgaria say you know you apply for asylum in Bulgaria but who the hell wants to stay in Bulgaria when they can go to Germany which is much more prosperous and has a nice welfare system so essentially um migrants make their way um through across Europe to Germany and uh and this just puts a great deal of uh strain upon um the Germans and now clearly the public is absolutely fed up with this and the German government needs to respond and so how it's responded is it said we are closing the Border in other words effectively we're bringing to an end the uh the shenen uh Visa free uh travel zone that has dominated uh Europe now for several decades which means that you can just travel um across the uh countries of the EU without uh a Visa and so Germany said that's it you know we're not going to do it we're not we're not going to have people coming in and um and just basically just uh living here and we don't really want you know ukrainians who apply for Refugee status but who who nonetheless uh feel free to uh go to uh go back home to Ukraine you know spend time with their friends and family and then you know come back to Germany to collect their uh welfare checks uh so that's Germany said that's it we're going to do it we're bringing to an end what they call uh irregular migration it's not clear exactly what they mean by it but I think it's that the whole Asylum um you know application racket um will be brought to an end now you know you could well say I'll believe it when I see it and you know that that one should indeed take all of these pledges with a pinch of salt because countless European countries have made these pledges before oh no no um you know we're definitely going to bring uh illegal immigration to an end we know we're just going to close our borders uh we can't have this anymore and then of course uh nothing very much happens but Ness this latest uh move uh from the German government this is the this is the leftish German government the traffic light coalition government has elicited an absolute uproar um across Europe so let me just show you a few stories you get so you get a feel for the um indignation that is uh sweeping um across Europe over the fact that Germany's saying we're going to close our uh border and um here is the Politico the headline in Politico which says Germany's uh Schultz gets tough on Border in bid to save political future so already as as you would expect in most of the media the issue is framed as a kind of political opportunism by Schultz he's abandoned this principle the shenen principle that you can just travel across Europe um Visa free um even though um as an asylum Seeker you're supposed to stay in the first country you come to that those are the rules um of Asylum um but but in s obviously it's been abused it's abused in Europe and of course it's abused horrifically in the United States um so Germany's ol of schz move to establish new border controls risks generating an EU Rift and then he says the announced measures specifics of which have yet to be fully disclosed have swn confusion and alarm among Germany's neighbors who fear the ramifications for Europe's borderfree Zone the so-call shenen area and the knock on hit to the European Union's economy and then as polish prime minister Donald Tusk sharply criticized the German plans in Warsaw if German leaders follow through on titer controls it would lead to the de facto suspension of the shenen agreement on a large scale see countries like Poland basically just dump um this kind of surplus population onto Germany so when Germany says well we're not going to do this anymore we're going to close the border you can't keep dumping um these Asylum Seekers on us on the contrary um we're going to return Asylum Seekers to you this is naturally causes a great deal of strain among other European States so Tusk says well how dare uh Germany say that they're not going to look after everyone that they're not going to become the kind of the go-to welfare Agency for the world um members of the conservative CDU have been pushing ing Schultz's government to turn back Asylum Seekers attempting to enter Germany from other EU countries a move that would likely create a domino effect across Europe experts say with other countries closing their borders to Asylum Seekers too they would close their borders simply once they know hey we can't dump these people on Germany they're going to close the borders themselves well that means we have to look after them we have no intention of looking after them and so therefore he's going to have a chain reaction um across Europe and then you think well gee why didn't somebody think of that earlier um knowing that that is exactly how everyone would respond well if Germany's not going to take them we certainly aren't going to take them ministers in the coalition government have instead advocated implementing FastTrack procedures to deport Asylum Seekers to other EU countries deemed responsible for processing their claims in other words to act in accordance with international law the problem is it never happens that's why we have these murders that are carried out in Germany it's nearly always an asylum Seeker whose Asylum application had been rejected by Court after court um and you know who's basically facing deportation is the one who goes on a rampage and starts killing um innocent Germans and natur Germans a little upset I mean they've been generous enough in providing um you know food and shelter to a would be um Asylum applicant but obviously since the person is not really eligible uh for Asylum um this is a kind of a threat to the German legal system which is that well if you reject my Asylum application you know I might go on a rampage and kill lots of people you don't want that to happen do you so you better just grant gr me my Asylum and um here we have well I hope we have this is uh the uh Guardian uh headline the end of shenen a tragedy the end of shenen Germany's new border controls put EU Unity at risk critics say Titan land border checks a transparent bid to appease the far right it's always to appease the far right that breaches free movement rights there no free there are no free movement rights you don't have any rights when you kind of buge into um uh in another country and demand uh basically the hospitality of that country you don't really have any rights um uh so you know this is again completely characterize it then says uh this is the BBC neighbors criticize German move to extend border controls German interior Minister Nancy faser explained the expanded controls would protect against the C quote acute dangers posed by islamist terrorism and serious crime so yeah islamist terrorism we've had you know the that recent killing in z were the the three at the diversity Festival that was claim Isis claimed that this was um you know they doing but the serious crime is of course this constant uh sexual assault against uh the women in Europe uh and you know country after country you know women are complaining that they no longer feel safe in um their their major cities so that's when she talks about the serious uh crimes um under her plan put to 16 German states police would check whether an asylum Seeker had already sought protection in another EU country and swiftly start proceedings to send them back if they had so you know again in accordance with international law that's what's supposed to happen you're not supposed to go shopping for which country would you like to live in um you know you would you want to hear you know enjoy the the hag Amsterdam Paris uh you know or Berlin and Munich and you know Pi take your pick um now again you know you any skeptic would say yeah I'll believe it when I see it uh she would um check whether an asylum Seeker had already sought protection in another EU country and swiftly start swiftly you know how you know you know I don't think nothing happens very swiftly in the legal system it just grinds its way through swiftly start proceedings to send them back if they had now incidentally it is driven by concern about the far right I mean these articles in Politico and the guardian and so on are not wrong that's the only reason Schultz uh has made this about turn this this uh that they got to do something about this um uncontrolled uh m situation is these disastrous um election results and so far uh these populists um have been you know located in the former um German Democratic Republic they haven't really made any um inroads substantial inroads in the west but that can change things can change very quickly in politics and uh these results which are very good for the um uh alternative to Deutschland party um you know that could you know in no time at all um spread to the west and there are federal elections uh taking place in Germany within um one year so um you know I think they have good reason to be very concerned and um however did I did I miss this right um okay so then we got to um Poland's prime minister was in no doubt this is um tusk was in no doubt that the measures were triggered by the internal German political situation and not our policy towards illegal migration at the borders Poland has faced a surge of illegal migrant Crossings over its borders with Bellar R Ro since 2021 which it considered a part of a hybrid War waged by both Belarus and Russia many of the migrants head for Germany notice this complete non seator they bring up Belarus Russia Putin nothing to do with what we're talking about the what we're talking about here she said islamist terrorism and um serious crime there's nothing to do with anyone coming in through bellus this was always a kind of a red herring um to get everyone you know Juiced up about these horrible Russians and lucenko as if that's the real migrant problem whereas the the real migrant problem was obviously the the million or so who have come from Ukraine but also the um the the mass migration from Middle East and North Africa um Donald Tusk told a meeting of Polish diplomats in Warsaw he would ask for Urgent con consultations with all the countries affected European commission spokeswoman Anita hipper said any reintroduction of Border checks had to be done in line with the shenen code so while Germany's measures were were possible those controls must be necessary and proportionate in Austria where the far right is leading the opinion polls ahead of the 29th of September elections interior Minister Gart carer said that he had instructed the head of the police not to take anyone back who had been rejected by Germany there is no leeway well I'm not sure how you can just say not going to take anyone back if they are registered as Asylum seekers in Austria then they have to be that you have to take them back um that's that's the law I mean you can't so he says we're not taking anyone back of course no one wants to take anyone back they absolutely happy good we don't have to pay for them let Germany pay for them say we're not taking anyone back was been rejected by Germany W you don't have much choice in the matter um and then um here this is the Daily Mail Europe's Fury as Germany tightens its borders neighbors say they won't uppercase won't take back rejected migrants you say look at this they say we won't take them back you have to take them back uh I mean this is this is always funny you know Trump always likes these stories about how all these migrants that come into the United States through Mexico through Central America and when Trump said turn to them and say well you got to take them back and I said no we're not taking them back I said well you got to take them back no no we're not we're not we're not doing it um and then Trump basically said well that's that means we're cutting off all economic um assistance uh for you and then according to Trump anyway they say okay fine we'll we'll take them back I don't know whether the story is necessarily true but it is true that um countries facilitate migration they allow uh the free passage of uh migrants of fake Asylum Seekers to Germany and then they say well we're not going to take them back um so we w't take back rejected migrants and declare Berlin's plan to them tith of Asylum Seekers and islamist Terror a threat to free movement and then Germany's introduction of strict controls on all its land borders to crack down on migration and islamist terrorism has prompted Anger from its European neighbors who are loath to accept migrants turned away by Berlin interior Minister Nancy faser of Chancellor Ola Schultz of struggling Social Democrat party yesterday announced that harsher restrictions would be implemented across Germany's 2300 mile land border from September the 16th um the scheme which will last uh months before review and enable authorities to reject more migrants directly at German German borders represents a significant extension of controls introduced last year on Germany's borders with Poland the Czech Republic and Switzerland so although they've introduced this it doesn't seem to make any real difference there's still um an enormous number of Asylum seekers in Germany there's still this Spate of um murders stabbings and uh sexual crimes now borders with Denmark the Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg France and Austria will Al be subject to the restrictions the German government's drastic move is the first time that controls have been placed on all of the country's borders since the creation of the shenen area in the 1990s many European countries are supportive of more stringent eu-wide border restrictions to curve immigration into the block but they are less enthused by Germany's declaration it will start turning migrants back to neighboring Nations um well yeah the point is and this was the issue that um Victor Orban raised back in 2015 which is well how about you create proper borders around um the um the EU so the EU will make sure that people are not just pouring into uh the continent um and um EU said no we can't do that and then so Orban then built essentially a you know Bob wire um fencing around uh Hungary now Germany which opposed um orban's plan is now I mean it's not it's not building a bob wire but it's more or saying you know you know no nobody comes in to the country anymore I mean basically you know we're kind of ending the whole U Visa free uh TR travel um the you know the we had the shenen area so in effect I mean they haven't built a bob wire but in effect it's that they're saying you know nobody um comes in um but but again you got the this the situation where because of Europe's poorest borders people can just simply get into Europe and then once you're in you know you can just make make your way to Germany and put in your um Asylum you can you know you you put in your Asylum application in Italy and then make your way to uh Germany but again it's the conse it is the consequence that Europe hasn't done anything uh proper um about its external borders Austrian authorities have already declared that they will not accept any migrant that Berlin attempts Force back across the border without a formal agreement there's no room for maneuver here this is the Austrian foreign minister speaking I have directed the head of the federal police to not allow any returns Austria will not accept any persons rejected from Germany Germany rejects them not but if they came from Austria then you know uh Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk slammed the measures as unacceptable saying his country would consult with other nations impacted um these kinds of actions are unacceptable from Poland's point of view Tusk said um in Warsaw rather than greater controls of our borders Poland needs greater participation of countries including Germany in guarding and securing the European Union's external borders well how about doing that then um rather than preoccupying yourself with these fake issues like the the migration through um bellus um and here's a little map and you can see the problem that's very nice of the Daily Mail to provide this little map of where people are coming uh from where people are coming into Germany so they're coming from Austria that's so this is I think 2023 so you got was uh um look at these little um balloon uh so Austria you know with this uh Speech balloon we will not take back rejected migrants so that's say they're saying 17,750 from Austria uh czechia threat to shenen it's another balloon um and then I guess that's the Netherlands the sooner the better and then you so you because see you know how they're just pouring into Germany from everywhere France Belgium Netherlands Switzerland Austria czechia Ukraine and then you have the Balan route the Balan route which is a very popular route um to get to uh Germany and um uh and and but of course there is also the route across the Mediterranean and that's through um Italy and um so that's um that's the situation in uh in Germany now um I you know don't take this too seriously maybe wrong but the the German political establishment is so um riddled with a kind of Multicultural liberalism diversity it's going to be very hard to get the German courts to move um reject Asylum applications I mean they've done some but you know it's going to be hard for them to do it on mass it's going to be very hard for them just to deport um people they don't like doing that and this whole process of rejecting Asylum applicants at the borders um which is what Germany's now advocating I think this is going to be challenged within all the EU courts and I don't know whether Germany really has the stomach to confront um the um the EU courts and be deemed to be intolerant and xenophobic racist you know whatever um but nonetheless uh it's interesting just the the um impact that all the M multi uh multivariant uh crisis are having on um Germany you know the economic crisis the industrial crisis its political military crisis uh in Ukraine and then of course the migrant crisis and it's really causing political upheaval and you know Germany's now seems even abandoning this uh this core policy of the shenen uh Visa free zone so anyway that's the update on what's happening in Germany we'll be following this um obviously fast moving story and then of course we have the elections um coming up up on um in Brandenburg on September the 22nd so anyway thank you very much for um joining me and remember if you like the Gaggle please like share and subscribe see you soon bye