No Borders... Here's One Of The Reasons.

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Oh sh*t...! It's not going well in the Fatherland.

Almost half of Germans want Merkel to resign, poll shows.

'A survey carried out by YouGov and published on Friday shows that 43 percent of Germans want Merkel
to leave office.



The survey also revealed that 42 percent of respondents wanted the veteran Chancellor to stay on as head
of government, while 15 percent did not give a response either way. Somewhat surprisingly, Merkel is most
popular among voters of the environmentalist Green party, two thirds of whom said she should stay in office.

She is slightly less loved by voters of the conservative Union, which includes her own Christian Democrats
(CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU).

Some 63 percent of Union voters said they wanted her to stay on as Chancellor, while 27 percent want her to go.
Merkel is currently entangled in a power battle with the CSU over border controls that is threatening to collapse
her coalition barely three months after it was established.

Merkel also remains strangely popular among voters of the far-left Die Linke party, 48 percent of whom want her
to stay in office. She is least popular by far among voters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), only six
percent of whom want her to stay on.

The survey also showed that most Germans don’t believe that the coalition will collapse over the current dispute
between Merkel and the CSU. Only 32 percent of respondents said that the coalition is about to fall to pieces,
while 45 percent said it would survive to fight another day.

Nonetheless half the respondents said that they did not believe that the coalition would make it to the next
scheduled national elections in 2021.

Whereas Merkel once enjoyed unrivalled support among German voters, recent polls have shown dwindling
patience with her policies. A YouGov poll from the end of last year showed that 47 percent of voters wanted
her to stand on before the next national election...'

The Local:

Not wishing to leave a fellow-European country out of the debate, Sweden is dealing with Donald
Trump's embassy move... or maybe it was just a glitch in the assimilation.

Three asylum seekers are jailed in Sweden for synagogue arson attack days after US recognised
Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

*Three men sentenced for arson attack on synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden
*Took place days after U.S. recognised Jerusalem as Israeli capital in December
*CCTV footage shows more than a dozen men throwing Molotov cocktails
*Attack happened while 30 youths were celebrating Hanukkah in synagogue
*The three, aged 19, 22 and 24, from Syria and Palestine, sentenced to jail

'Three asylum seekers from Syria and Palestine have been sentenced to jail for an attempted arson
attack on a synagogue in Gothenburg, southern Sweden, in December last year.



CCTV footage from the attack, which took place while some 30 youths were attending a Hanukkah
party in the synagogue, shows more than a dozen masked men throwing Molotov cocktails at the
building and nearby cars. 
However, just three men, aged 19, 22 and 24, were arrested and charged in connection with the incident.

The arson attack took place just days after President Donald Trump had announced that the U.S. would
recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Court documents state that at least six Molotov cocktails -glass
cider bottles filled with flammable liquid -were thrown at the synagogue on December 9, 2017.

Between ten and 20 masked men were involved in the attack, which took place just after 10pm.

The prosecution argued that the charges were aggravated by 'the crime's motive to violate an ethnic group
because of its beliefs'. The young Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah in the building, briefly took shelter
in a cellar during the attack, but no one was injured.

The court added that the attack's 'purpose was to threaten, harm and violate both the members of the Jewish
community and the Jewish people as a whole.' One of the men had googled the synagogue's location on the
day of the attack, the prosecution said.

The 19-year-old Syrian man was sentenced to one year and three months for threats and attempted criminal
damage. The two Palestinian nationals, aged 22 and 24, were each sentenced to two years in prison.
The Syrian teen and the 24-year-old, a Palestinian national from Syria, had already been given permanent
residency in Sweden and the court ruled that the crime is not considered severe enough to warrant deportation.

The 22-year-old had his asylum application rejected and will therefore be deported after serving his sentence. 
There are around 20,000 Jews living in Sweden, according to the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities.

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention says there have been between 150 and 280 anti-Semitic acts,
including threats, insults and violence, each year in the past decade...'

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