This is what the -out of touch and couldn’t care less what the people really want- elitists call progress.
German federal govt spent €20 billion on refugees in 2016: report
The total spend of €20 billion was about 0.6 percent of its GDP, according to a government report seen by the Rheinische Post.
The money was split between domestic and foreign programmes, with the federal states receiving €9.3 billion, and €11 billion going to operations abroad aimed at fighting forced migration.
“The number of new arrivals coming from Turkey to Greece has drastically sunk in the last year,” said Peter Altmaier, Angela Merkel’s chief of staff and coordinator of Germany’s response to the migrant crisis, in an interview with the Rheinische Post.
“It also seems as though the rate of the influx of migrants on the Libya-to-Italy route is falling rather than going up,” he continued. “It looks like our commitment to improving the situation in Libya, Mali, and Niger is paying off.”