“Wir schaffen das.” (We can do it.) Three words that will stick to the image of Angela Merkel for posterity. In 2015, in the midst of a migration crisis during which more than a million refugees are fleeing the horrors of the war in Syria, the German Chancellor takes a decision that will surprise the world and the European Union. She estimates that Germany is quite capable of taking in more than a million refugees, above all Syrians, while the other EU countries, except Sweden, barricade themselves behind all sorts of excuses to limit their as possible the number.
