On Monday 9 October, the European Commission described the fact that the government currently being negotiated had agreed to take in another 200,000 refugees a year, as extremely “positive”, despite the fact that Germany had already taken in more than 1 million in 2015. Margaritis Schinas, the Commission spokesperson, made this announcement on Monday. He was commenting on the agreement reached on Sunday between the German chancellor, Angela Merkel and the Bavarian CSU, which...