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“Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty”,
according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in
Berlin that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their
citizens when it comes to questions of immigration, borders, or even
sovereignty.
“In an orderly fashion of course,” Merkel joked, attempting
to lighten the mood. But Merkel has always had a tin ear for comedy and
she soon launched into a dark speech condemning those in her own party
who think Germany should have listened to the will of its citizens and
refused to sign the controversial UN migration pact:
“There were [politicians] who believed that they could decide
when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing
The People”.
“[But] the people are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the [German] people,” she stressed.
Merkel has previously accused critics of the UN Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration of not being patriotic, saying “That is not patriotism, because patriotism is when you include others in German interests and accept win-win situations”.
Her words echo recent comments by the deeply unpopular French
President Emmanuel Macron who stated in a Remembrance Day speech that “patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism [because] nationalism is treason.”
The French president’s words were deeply unpopular with the French
population and his approval rating nosedived even further after the
comments.
Macron, whose lack of leadership is proving unable to deal with
growing protests in France, told the Bundestag that France and Germany
should be at the center of the emerging New World Order.
Citizens to Merkel..Go jump a bridge.
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