Germany’s Migrant Crisis: ‘By 2060 There Will Be No Germany as We Know It’

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The German Interior Ministry has released its 2016 crime statistics, showing a surge in crimes committed by migrants. In a passionately argued analysis on the risks posed by the country’s ongoing migrant crisis, Russian Europe observer Igor Pshenichnikov warns that if current trends continue, Germany as we know it will cease to exist this century.

This week, Germany’s Interior Ministry released its 2016 crime figures, showing a dramatic increase in violent crime, including a 14.3% rise in murder and manslaughter, a 12.7% rise in rape and sexual assaults, and a 9.9% increase in serious assaults over the previous year. The figures showed that illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers were suspected of having committing 174,438 crimes, a whopping 52.7% increase over the previous year.

With the number of German nationals suspected of crimes falling by 3.4%, migrants and refugees were estimated to have accounted for over 12% of all suspected crimes in 2016. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called the increase in migrant crime ‘”unacceptable” and vowed to expel illegal migrants who committed crimes.

Germany watchers say there’s a clear connection between this increase in crime and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open door policy toward immigrants. German media, meanwhile, is considering whether the statistics will affect her chances in September’s parliamentary elections.

Commenting on the migrant crisis facing Germany and the rest of Europe, RIA Novosti contributor and Europe observer Igor Pshenichnikov recalled that “observing the situation with refugees in Europe over the last ten or fifteen years, it can be argued that the authorities of European countries did not set out to confront the influx of immigrants.

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But chalking it all down to some kind of’ mistake’ isn’t correct, Pshenichnikov noted. Behind Berlin’s logic were macroeconomic calculations which went beyond the interests of ordinary Germans.

Earlier this year, Germany’s Rheinische Post newspaper published excerpts from a secret government report, showing that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to bring about 1.5 million Muslim migrants into the country between 2015 and 2016 was not a humanitarian gesture, but a deliberate attempt to slow the decline of Germany’s population, and maintain the viability of the German welfare state.

The report explained that Germany’s current fertility rates – 160 births per 100 women, was far below that which would be necessary to reproduce the population (which requires a fertility rate of 210 children per 100 women). Accordingly, the German government calculated that the country ‘needs’ an estimated 300,000 migrants new migrants each year, in order to preserve economic stability up to 2060.

“It’s obvious,” Pshenichnikov noted, “that without laborers the economy will not work.”

“But it’s not so difficult to imagine what this will all lead to by 2060, either. If Chancellor Merkel’s macroeconomic calculations are correct, the German economy will not experience shortages to its working population.” However, if the migration trends continue, by the time 2060 rolls around, “there will be much fewer actual Germans, for whom all this is all supposedly being calculated, than there are today.”

In other words, the analyst explained, if today about 20% of Germany’s population has immigrant backgrounds, by “2060 this figure could rise dramatically – and not through the migration of Eastern Europeans, as was considered in the early 2000s, but as a result of migration from the Greater Middle East and Africa.”

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These trends threaten to bring with them tectonic changes to Germany’s ethnic, culture and religious traditions as well, Pshenichnikov stressed. Today, the analyst recalled, like most EU members, Germany is facing the lowest birthrates in its history. “One of the main reasons for this…is the radical change” that has been observed “in Europe’s cultural and religious traditions, or rather, their dissolution into the semi-official ideology of urban individualism,” he added.

The migrants, on the other hand, face no such problems, the analyst noted, with Islamic culture favorable to the idea of large families with many children. “Today,” Pshenichnikov recalled, “in Germany, followers of Islam (i.e. immigrants, 60% of whom are Turks) are already the largest religious group after Christians.”

The resulting clash between the cultural, social and religious norms that these people bring with them and those of Germany’s native population inevitably lead to misunderstandings and conflicts, the analyst added.

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The same problems face other European nations as well, particularly the Nordic states, the journalist warned. “The fact that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Europe are members of Islamic religious organizations suggests that socially and culturally, they prefer not to be assimilated. But they will effectively, and literally, replace the European population, which has been carried away by ideals of individual freedoms and macroeconomic forecasts in an attempt to grow economic capital.”

Full article: Germany’s Migrant Crisis: ‘By 2060 There Will Be No Germany as We Know It’ (Sputnik News)