Photo: DPAA report written by the German parliament’s legal experts has found that parliament and not Angela Merkel should have decided on opening Germany’s borders to refugees in September 2015. The report by the Bundestag Scientific Office, a team of non-partisan legal experts, stated that it is the role of the Bundestag (German parliament) to decide on all matters of essential relevance to the state. To this day, the government has not explained the legal grounds upon which it took the decision. The Bundestag legal experts state that, according to German law, refugees should have been turned away at the Austrian border. “Unfortunately they never brought the Bundestag or neighbouring countries into the decision- making process.”SEE ALSO: 10 things to know about refugees and asylum in Germany

Source: The Local September 22, 2017 08:37 UTC