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germany is hardly a sovereign country anymore. they couldn't do so even if they wanted to.

disclaimer: i grew up there

Of course you have sources for this statement, right?

By the way - this is exactly the argumentation neo-Nazi parties parties proclaim all the time [1]. You must be in lack of any information about what is going on in European and German politics to state stuff like this...

[1] http://npd-fraktion-sachsen.de/index.php?s=111&aid=6373

> By the way - this is exactly the argumentation neo-Nazi parties parties proclaim all the time [1]. You must be in lack of any information about what is going on in European and German politics to state stuff like this...

It doesn't matter who says it or why. Germany, for better or worse, has little or no sovereignty.

I don't know of any historical countries with 50,000 foreign soldiers in them that were not vassals, let alone sovereigns.

You don't know a lot then...

That's just ideological right-wing bullshit. Presumably you're referring to the EU, but while there are efforts to harmonize EU asylum laws, it would be hard to find a more incorrect statement about them than that they would not allow a country to grant asylum to someone if it wants to.

Besides, no EU regulation is ever going to get passed that the German government doesn't want to.

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