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Germany Calls in McKinsey to Fix the Refugee Crisis
The danger is that consultants will make asylum process too efficient.
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"We will manage," Chancellor Angela Merkel said in October about the huge refugee influx into Germany. The verb is appropriate because, apart from everything else, the crisis is a management challenge. Now, Germany's migration service, BAMF, has asked has called in consultants from McKinsey & Co. to help streamline the asylum application process.
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