Merkel’s Blunder: Berlin needs 67 billion euros to educate refugees, by David Charter.

Young refugees accepted by Germany since the beginning of last year will cost the country an extra 67 billion euros ($100 billion) to educate and train, according to a new assessment of the bill for the migrant influx. …

The as yet unpublished study anticipates that up to 1.5 million refugees aged 20 and under will enter Germany’s education and training system by 2020. It includes the cost of higher education in a country where university tuition is provided free of charge. The bill for 2016 is put at euros 15 billion. …

Alternative for Germany, the anti-immigrant party which is polling at 19 per cent in Mrs Merkel’s home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, is arguing that native German pupils will lose out from the effort to integrate migrants.