Today’s Solutions: July 09, 2025

Sophie Hardach reports from Germany’s ‘turnstile city’ on the tumultuous welcome Some recounted their horrors. Others silently clutched their children, deaf to the cheers and applause from German bystanders. The youngest of the refugees to arrive in Munich was a baby girl – part of her umbilical cord still attached – born in a Hungarian railway terminal. Germans greeted the refugees on 6 September, as they had done the day before, with fruit, cereal bars…

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