Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.
Angela Merkel

Horst Seehofer

Thomas de Maizière

Peter Altmaier

Wolfgang Schäuble

Sigmar Gabriel

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Beate Baumann

Eva Christiansen

Steffen Seibert

Joachim Sauer

Jens Spahn

Alexander Dobrindt

Jean-Claude Juncker

Manfred Schmidt

Bernhard Kotsch

Philipp Steinberg
Christoph Heusgen
Holger Münch

Hans-Georg Maaßen

Dieter Romann

Karoline Gernbauer
Emily Haber

Viktor Orban

Josef Czukor

Janos Lázár
Werner Faymann

Sebastian Kurz
Alexis Tsipras

Karin Seehofer
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