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A few weeks ago, on the Austrian border, I asked a Syrian refugee why he wanted to start a new life in Germany.
Mohammed - a large man with sad eyes - looked up at the mountains behind him and then across the road bridge that connects Austria to Bavaria.
"It's Merkel," he said. "She says we're welcome."
The German chancellor's open-door policy on refugees has been one of the most emphatic of her chancellorship.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34402001
They're mainly from Syria? Ermmm actually, no they're not. Syrians form the largest single group but far more are coming from places like Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. What's their reason for claiming asylum in Germany?
To my mind there's no denying that Merkel's invitation has worked rather better than the Eurocrats could ever have imagined and the price to be paid is increasing by the day.
I hope the Euro-ditherers are going to get their fingers out pretty dammed quick because if they don't they're going to have the deaths of a great many more migrants on their hands as winter sets in.