I ' m on mobile and have no idea how to edit the original post but I meant to type few instead of file . <| sep |> 1 . Those large 2015 numbers are nowhere near the 2016 numbers . 2 . Boats were not coming over , it was EU that was picking them up as soon as they were 100 meters from the coast . ye I know it ' s a exaggerated figure This encouraged even more to try , afterall they had only to take any boat that could travel some hundreds of meters to reach the EU Navies . 3 . Merkel did not Agree to take the refugees stranded in Hungary , She Decreed that EU should take every migrant that leaves Turkey or Africa shore . 4 . Merkel did not take this decision because of border migrant queues . She took it because of 1 single very moving moment the dead body of a child in the beach