Fears mount in Germany over record migrant influx

AFP, BERLIN: Germans are growing increasingly uneasy over the record influx of migrants coming to their country, costing Chancellor Angela Merkel voter support, a poll Friday indicated.
More than half -- 51 percent—of respondents said the arrival of so many newcomers at once made them fearful, according to the survey for public broadcaster ARD. The result marked a 13-point rise compared to early September, a month in which 280,000 migrants crossed the border into Germany—more than in all of 2014.
Forty-seven percent said they were not afraid of these developments.
Merkel, who has attempted to rally Germans to the task of welcoming hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution, saw her approval rating sink nine points over the last month, to 54 percent.

 

Fears mount in Germany over record migrant influx

AFP, BERLIN: Germans are growing increasingly uneasy over the record influx of migrants coming to their country, costing Chancellor Angela Merkel voter support, a poll Friday indicated. More than half -- 51 percentof respondents said the arrival of so many newcomers at once made them fearful, according to the survey for public broadcaster ARD. The result marked a 13-point rise compared to early September, a month in which 280,000 migrants crossed the border into Germanymore than in all of 2014. Forty-seven percent said they were not afraid of these developments. Merkel, who has attempted to rally Germans to the task of welcoming hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution, saw her approval rating sink nine points over the last month, to 54 percent.