Amal and George Clooney meet with Angela Merkel to discuss Refugee Crisis

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Amid a raging refugee crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took some time off to meet with Lebanese-British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and actor George Clooney to discuss the current migrant policy and the war in Syria.

The Clooneys are in Berlin to promote the opening of “Hail, Caesar!,” a film starring George Clooney, at the Berlin Film Festival, but announced in a news conference that they’ll be making a pit stop at the offices of Europe’s leading lady to see how they can help with the refugee crisis, according to the BBC.

Germany has accepted 1.1 million refugees in 2015, and many continue to apply for asylum. Despite her country’s generosity, Merkel has come under intense scrutiny at home and abroad for her policies about migrants. Her approval rating has fallen, and opposition lawmakers are calling for her resignation.

“I absolutely agree with her,” Clooney told reporters.

After the 40-minute meeting, Clooney said in an interview with German TV that they talked mostly about “what we can do and what part of this we can talk about in the United States, because you know in the United States we aren’t doing enough…We are a little less involved that we should be,” Clooney said.

Even if Clooney himself has been active in humanitarian crises around the world, he acknowledged at the Hail, Caesar! press conference that the film industry has been too slow to react.

“The unfortunate thing about the film community is we react to situations much more than we lead the way,” he said.

As Anthony Faiola writes in The Washington Post:

“The refugee crisis has damaged her profoundly, underscoring the high price of compassion in a risk-averse world. A nation whose World War II past made it fully aware of the dangers of xenophobia, modern Germany was leading by example in the 21st century, becoming a beacon of hope for desperate foreigners fleeing war and poverty.”

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10 responses to “Amal and George Clooney meet with Angela Merkel to discuss Refugee Crisis”

  1. An actor and a lawyer are going to change the worlds political dead, yeh good on ya

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Stranger things have happened, and these folks get ‘The Press’.

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar

        They’re not folks, Amal is human rights lawyer George is her husband.

        Germany and UNO (UN) Against Syria.
        http://www.voltairenet.org/article190102.html

        Remember 2011 Voltaire article “Al Rai met Sarkozy” before Christians were emptied from Middle East, was banned in West like this one.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          I know who they are, Dear … but if I met them on a camping trip into the bush they would be just ‘Folks’. Might even be interesting to talk to.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            You have the last word ..dear…i never camped.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Good bye, Dear.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Most of the morning ‘news’ is about Basketball … a Canadian Invention.
        Record ‘cold’ is #2 …. competes with Native Women being killed but not knowing why.
        A few seconds are spent with video of Old Aleppo Rubble and attempts to bring food.
        A few seconds of Putin trying to be ‘diplomatic’ … and being told the same as ‘The West’. (F.O. With Cease-Fire ideas.) Russians bombed a DWB medical post.
        A blend of ‘reports’ which talk about the ‘New Depression’ but don’t use that word, and people out of work because oil dropped, which means the Feds should be extending E.I. payments, etc, by taking money from profitable parts of the economy to hand to the poor. (3 minute discussion with Premier of Newfoundland losing like Alberta)
        Aside from other little tidbits of a some local shootings, and a young Quebec Cop being murdered, there is the report of the low Canuk Buck attracting Foreign Buy-ups of Property for fantastic prices in Vancouver – which also may be money-laundering moves.
        Videos of morning traffic on white-with-salt roads, something about Ballet, 10 seconds on a closed Stock Market, a few notes on American Supreme Court Battles, and the usual 20 minutes of advertising, suck up the rest of an hour of ‘News’.
        NOW, out of all THAT, and considering the average ‘viewer’, WHAT SUBJECT do you think Canadians are diving into to find out more about, so that they are ‘well informed’ to be discussing with the folks they go to work with?
        And what then, do you think, you and I matter, or can do, to any with our ‘opinions’ about how one group of people actually treat another? 😉

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          Our problem is that we actually have (or take) the time to really search, to find out why a huge number of humans continue to kill each other in parts of the world.
          We find no actually ‘good’ answer beyond uneducated stupidity.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Of course there is an answer..the Empire.

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar

          That’s the difference between Canada-US Volks.. (German word) isolationist media and Middle East taxi drivers where everybody talks REALITY.
          PS. I threw my TV in the garbage 5 year ago; I said ‘Oh no.. not another Irak’

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