content: Macron recently introduced much stricter immigration laws in France. Germany did not vote Merkel back in, they rejected her government but her party got propped up by Schultz and the SDs (European parliamentary systems are very different to the US presidential system, its not a simple win/lose outcome over here). Numbers crossing the Med are down about 75% since the peak a couple of years back. We're winning against this politically all across the continent. But politics can move slowly, which is more so the case under European systems.