Angela Merkel defended an immigration policy with a focus on the individual.
Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended a migration policy with the focus on the individual on Thursday during a visit to the German Emigration Museum in the city of Bremerhaven, in northern Germany.
Merkel welcomed the fact that the museum put the biography of each individual “in the foreground”, noting that it is the correct way to deal with issues relating to issues of “refuge, expulsion, immigration and emigration.”
“It is not ‘the’ Germans who emigrated and it is not ‘the’ Syrians or ‘the’ Afghans who come, but it is always about individual persons. And these processes must be ordered and regulated,” said the Christian Democratic chancellor.
Merkel also highlighted the important role of the museum, given that many people in Germany “are not aware” of the dimensions of the emigration that occurred over many decades from the German country and from Western Europe in general.
“People were leaving Europe,” stressed the chancellor, according to which the phenomenon of migration is simply part of global history.
The mayor of the city of Bremen, the Social Democrat Andreas Bovenschulte, accompanied Merkel during the visit and praised her “clear human position” on migration issues.
The chancellor had already visited the museum twice before but, according to Bovenschulte, Merkel had expressed the desire to visit it a third time during her last official trip to the federal state of Bremen.
The port city of Bremerhaven was the starting point from which more than seven million people migrated to the New World between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (I)
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