joG
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I'm not saying 1 mio refugees aren't creating problems or risks, but 1mio isn't all that much on a population of 80 mio.
Unemployment is on a relatively low level (ca. 2.5 mio IIRC), so even if that number rises by 1 million, it's still nowhere near the level it used to be last decade (when unemployment was as high as 5.5 mio).
Even the financial costs of supporting the refugees is not a huge problem, it's peanuts compared to the bailouts for banks and Greece/euro crisis countries. Germany can afford it. In the worst case by making new debts, and it says something that this is even the worst case.
I am not far off your page, but would recall the polish immigration in the UK. That occurred during a boom and caused no irritation, while Germany still banned immigration from Poland. When the crisis came the Poles in the UK exacerbated the unemployment and welfare problems in the UK causing discontent in the British population. This factored into the decline in the legitimacy of the EU and skepticism of the project.