Critical Encounters by Wolfgang Streeck

Author:Wolfgang Streeck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

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* Germany is today the prosperity region of the Economic and Monetary Union, which may be seen as an integrated transnational economy characterized by rapidly increasing regional disparities. Germany relates to Spain as Baden-Württemberg to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, or Lombardy to Sicily.

* See David Abraham, ‘The Refugee Crisis and Germany: From Migration Crisis to Immigration and Integration Regime’, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper nos. 16–17, 1 February 2016.

* According to investigative journalist Robin Alexander, the government originally intended to open the border for just one weekend to allow the migrants at Budapest Central Station to cross through Austria and reach Germany, and an order to close it again was ready to be signed, but this came to be seen as politically inexpedient: Alexander, Die Getriebenen: Merkel und die Flüchtlingspolitik: Report aus dem Innern der Macht [The Driven: Merkel and Refugee Policy: Report from the Inside of Power], Munich: Siedler, 2017.

* Martin Sandbu, Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

* Enthusiasm among German employers for immigration-by-asylum had vanished. By July 2016 the thirty DAX companies had hired no more than fifty-four of the refugees of 2015 in regular jobs. Germany together with other EU member countries formally complained to the Turkish government that the very few Syrian refugees that Turkey sent to Europe under the Merkel-Erdoğan agreement were either in need of extensive medical treatment or unskilled. The Turkish government shortly thereafter confirmed that it preferred to keep academically trained Syrians in Turkey: ‘European Union-Flüchtlingsdeal: Türkei lässt hochqualifizierte Syrer nicht ausreisen’, [European Union Refugee Deal: Turkey Will Not Allow Highly Qualified Syrians to Leave] Spiegel, 21 May 2016.

* On 13 March 2016 elections were held in Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz and Sachsen-Anhalt. The AfD received 15, 13 and 24 per cent of the vote, respectively, and established itself as a new element of the German party system.

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