How persuasive are arguments? Counter-steering in rising nationalism in Germany during the refugee crisis

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The essay is showing the current public opinion on migration in Germany. This evaluation lead to five theses made on the topic stressing the role of the news media.

Nearly every day the media covers the current refugee crisis in Europe. While voluntaries are working in initial reception centres, politicians try to figure out solutions. In Berlin the lower and upper house of parliament passed a new asylum law in order to speed up the application process on October 23rd 2015. The governmental coalition formed by the two Christian Democratic Unions and the Social Democrat Party decided recently on a summit meeting to implement centres for faster processing of asylum seekers with only a slight pro-spect of success; introducing harsher residence requirements with sanctioning and ex-pressed their will to increase border protection.

Since the economic crisis which turned into a national debt crisis, new right wing parties and far right movements were founded, opposing against the Euro, overregulation from Brussels and newly the refugees coming to Germany. The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) e.g., are gathering more and more sympathizers and form the inlet for parties like the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) or the Alternative for Germany (AfD).