Senior citizens are sent out to pasture as the German government welcomes its new generation of migrant workers.
As Germany vows to continue spending heavily on its liberal migration policy — more than €36 billion in 2023 alone — an increasing number of the country’s senior citizens are reported to be at a growing risk of poverty.
Federal government data published under a request from several Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmakers revealed that 28.1 percent of the German elderly are at risk of poverty, a figure that is higher than the EU average of 27.4 percent and far greater than its Western European neighbors of France (19.1 percent), Belgium (17.4 percent), and Luxembourg (9.3 percent).
This is 8.3 percentage points higher than before former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ultra-liberal policy of mass immigration came to power in 2005. The risk of poverty for German senior citizens thus rose by 40 percent under “Mutti” Merkel.
Despite the federal government budgeting €163 billion a year to fund its welfare state, senior citizens are being short shortchanged. Less than 40 percent of these funds are spent on caring and providing for the elderly, yet again lower than the EU average of over 44 percent and far behind Western European neighbors where the figure is closer to 60 percent.