Just weeks after Germans surprised the world, and themselves, by embracing the challenge of taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees, Germany's leaders are rolling up the welcome mat.<br />In a primetime appearance on German television on Thursday, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière lashed out at the "many" refugees he accused of not following Germany's rules.<br />"There are many refugees who believe that they can just allocate themselves," he said.<br />"In Germany, we are rapidly getting close to the limits of our possibilities," Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's economic minister and vice chancellor, told Spiegel Online in an interview published Friday.<br />"While the asylum law doesn't have a ceiling, there are real limits to how much pressure we can put on our cities and towns."<br />Germany expects somewhere between 800,000 and one million refugees this year, substantially more than the rest of Europe combined.
