I really was biting my tongue to write this as dry and neutral as possible.<p>I am from Denmark and in many ways we are similar to Germany.<p>But we are different in that we have taken in a relatively small number of refugees (around 25.000 pa. excl. family reunions, population 6 mio.) and yet the subject number 1 in Danish politics is how to handle the strech on public finances it creates.<p>This may be due to two things:<p>1. Denmark is more generous to refugees and&#x2F;or integrates them more poorly.<p>2. Denmark has different politics where it is okay to talk refugees as expenses. (Whether they are or not is another question - my point is that our politicians talk about it in this way.)<p>What I wrote would absolutely not be controversial to say in Denmark but I can see from the downvotes that it is different elsewhere.<p>Which I think underlines my point that this subject really is too touchy to have a good conversation about.