The news that one of the assailants in the Paris attacks may have crossed into Europe with refugees fleeing Syria is raising the fierce debate over Europe’s immigration policy to a new pitch. It must re-assert control over its outer borders, create refugee processing centers at entry points, patrol its coasts.
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In return for the German state promising to “protect and promote” migrants, they would be expected to accept values like sexual equality, learning German, and keeping religion out of the political sphere. President Francois Hollande said the attacks amounted to an act of war against France, and called for “merciless” retaliation against those responsible.
Germany’s vice-chancellor has warned against a crackdown on migrants coming to Europe because of the Paris attacks.
“We have an arrest… where there are reasonable grounds for presuming that it might be related to the matter”, Horst Seehofer said in a speech at a local party congress of the Christian Democrats. Greece pushed them to Macedonia.
A former senior intelligence official, who is still well-briefed, said: “This is becoming a strategy for them: to embed among the migrants”.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said she was “shocked” by the attacks, which she described as an expression of “terrorist brutality”.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following talks at the Chancellery.
The man was stopped in a Volkswagen Golf with Montenegrin plates near Bavaria’s border with Austria on 5 November. Arrivals by sea only have reached nearly 800,000 people so far in 2015, the worldwide Organization for Migration reported. “We need to have a better process”, Huckabee said on CNN.
“The G20 must rise to the challenge and lead a coordinated and innovative response to the crisis that recognizes its global nature and economic consequences, and promotes greater worldwide solidarity in protecting refugees”, an European Union statement said.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told reporters Friday that Austria was acting on a request from the Slovenian government not to build a fence.
The growing clout of those seeking to roll back Dr Merkel’s migrant policy has alarmed her left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) coalition allies, while the opposition Green party branded their pushback as an attempted putsch.
He called the attacks a “heartbreaking situation” and an “attack on all of humanity”.
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Slovenian police say that almost 200,000 asylum seekers have entered since mid-October and the refugee flow continues unabated even as the country starts erecting a fence to stem the influx.
German police say three teenagers are being investigated on possible hate crime charges after allegedly attacking an 8-months-pregnant Somalian refugee.
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The apparent tension in the Greek statement was made more explicit by the new Polish rightwing government, which sought to gain political capital from the horrific events by declaring the attacks meant the EU’s compulsory system of quotas for sharing refugees was dead.
