Germany’s Scholz breaks bad on migration – POLITICO

The depth of Scholz’s weakness on the issue became clear in the wake of last month’s European election, in which the AfD scored its best-ever result in a national election while Scholz’s Social Democrats suffered their worst. 

Another reminder of the resonance of migration with voters — not that Scholz needed one — came with Sunday’s victory of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party in the first round of parliamentary elections in France. 

Germans fret over a rise in crime

Germany remains one of the…