This is a new episode in the eternal conflict, so well described in the sixteenth century by Machiavelli, who opposes moral and political. It is even a textbook case. Germany she will take the chance to revive the refugee crisis in Europe, the name of the requirement ethics and historical truth? Thursday, 101 years after the fact, the Bundestag is to vote on a resolution recognizing the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire were indeed genocide. The text, if adopted, is likely to irritate the highest point on the Turkish authorities. But with the approach of summer, Berlin has more than ever on the goodwill of Ankara to continue to curb the flow of refugees from the Middle East wars.

Only state in the world to admit himself guilty of genocide, that of the Jews during World War II, and take the consequences, since Germany is the moral values at the heart of its political action. It is even the purpose of the Federal Republic, which placed its Basic Law (constitution) of 1949 under the banner of human dignity. This imperative willingly displayed ethic clashes often with the requirements of realpolitik. German leaders, as they yield to them or not, are liable in one case the charges of hypocrisy, in the other those of naivety. In the refugee crisis, Angela Merkel has even had the part of its European partners, the two complaints simultaneously, in addition to that to the bed of the far right.

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