The wrinkled sea. Flickr/jenny downing. Some rights reserved.Confronted with the violent and obscene images that have been reaching us ever since the influx of refugees entered new dimensions this summer, we may wonder: Why is it that Merkel addresses the issue much better than Hollande does, and Sigmar Gabriel much better than Manuel Valls?
Why is it that – all things considered - Germany behaves with much more dignity and efficiency than France, let alone the UK or Hungary? Surely, because in the long term Germany is in need of the migratory input while France is not (or so she thinks).
Surely also because a majority of Germans have learned a lesson from fascism and from the Cold War, which the French still haven't learned from colonial and neo-colonial history.
