Eight in Ten Germans Think the Government Has Failed to Solve Migrant Crisis
Kurt Zindulka13 May 202678
The overwhelming majority of the German public is dissatisfied with the performance of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition government on immigration.
A survey from INSA on behalf of Berlin’s BILD newspaper this week found that 78 per cent of voters do not think that the government has sufficiently addressed the immigration issue. In contrast, just 11 per cent of voters agreed with Chancellor Merz’s declaration that “large parts” of the migrant crisis have been solved.
Perhaps more crucially, even supporters of the Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its regional sister party, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), remain pessimistic over the government’s performance, one year after coming to power, with 73 per cent of Union voters disagreeing with the Chancellor compared to 20 per cent who agreed.
The Merz government has managed to bring down illegal immigration compared to its predecessor, run by the Social Democrats, with whom Merz had to partner to form a government last year, but not by a consequential degree. Federal police identified around 62,000 cases of illegal entries in 2025, down from 83,572 in the previous year and from 127,549 in 2023.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/05/13/eight-in-ten-germans-think-the-government-has-failed-to-solve-migrant-crisis/
