Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Traumatic events have clear and often dire effects on individuals.

But when the event is experienced by everyone everywhere, like a global pandemic, the result is collective trauma.

We look into how it will manifest and how to heal from it.

And a little beach trip is a simple pleasure.

But for Palestinians, sneaking out of the occupied West Bank for a paddle in the Med is a rare bit of freedom.

Some will never have seen the sea before.

For now, Israel's security forces are looking the other way.

But first,

five years ago this week, with a growing number of asylum seekers reaching Germany,

Chancellor Angela Merkel declared,

we're chaffin'as. Or we can handle this. A few days later, she opened the

borders to migrants stranded in Budapest. Today, another 10,000 migrants made it to Germany,

the latest to complete. It was a momentous decision that put Germany at the center of the European

Union's refugee project.

I've just decided to walk to the border with Austria and then all the way to Germany.

Encouraged by Mrs. Merkel's decision, more than a million migrants flooded in.

Thank you, Lady Merkel. Thank you anyone here. Thank you so much. Initially, Germany handled the influx well, but five years on, its experience integrating

migrants has been mixed.

We started our way from Turkey, crossing the sea until we arrived to Greece, and from Greece

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