No I don’t think so. The “Germany should know better” is more akin to irony

Soft bigotry of low expectation is not open hostility so much as a giving up on a people—-X people are inherently incapable, so just let them be, don’t expect anything from them. As a result of painless low expectation, no one strives, no one offers them opportunities, the people don’t move forward, and the low expectation fuels further low expectation based on poor performance.

Mor maybe you were referring to expectation of other EU countries to be unwelcoming?