Merkel's decision to leave the borders open in 2015 was extremely divisive. The issue has come off the boil a little bit because of course we don't have anything like the numbers coming in as we used you back then. But it does mean that the politics of migration and asylum in Germany are pretty much as fraught as they ever have been.
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