Clearly as a politition she saw it as a potential vote winner. Also it was an attempt to assert herself as a leader in the context of the EU overall....it could be ventured to speculate that she hopped that a ripple effect would take place with other countries adapting the same attitude and taking positive steps to take migrants and migrate them into their relative societies.

Again in the wider context there is less of an impact on Germany taking migrants given the size and scale of the country and it's economy. As the EU economic leader and powerhouse it's industry based economy could absorb large numbers of emigrants than lets say it's southern european neighbours who until recent times were suffering unemployment rates in excess of 20% and high youth employment rates too. This has in the past week seemed to have possibly reached a point where such rates will not grow again - Greece this week reported a signifiant drop in unemployment rate for example. Migration is now more under control than it has been

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When we look at the reported figures, there is a strong reason to doubt especially for the case of Greece. I mean perhaps this report was necessary to receive some sort of a waiver or a small promotion on a debt management program. As a long-term unemployed in Greece who wishes very much for this trend with unemployment decrease to happen, I would assume that the possibility of these figures being realistic might be seasonal - if this refers to the employment in the tourism sector in summertime