However, Juncker warned that European Union leaders should not jump to conclusions, and said there is no need to change the bloc’s plan to relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece – the countries where most people enter the European Union – to other member states.
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, a centre-left nationalist who has also opposed refugee quotas, raised the possibility that Islamic State militants could have infiltrated the wave of migrants reaching Europe.
According to Reuters, Konrad, who takes up office on Monday stated on Saturday, during a briefing that the attacks necessitate a greater revision of policies concerning the current refugee crisis in Europe.
“The security concerns raised by the attacks could put the Schengen open- borders policy under pressure in the long term, given the likely intensified criticism coming not only from radical populist parties but also moderate center-right forces” such as former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said Antonio Barroso, an analyst at research group Teneo Intelligence.
But sealing borders with razor wire and having police on trains requesting papers are the kinds of images Europeans will surely shrink from, given their history – and such actions will not prevent desperate refugees from finding ways to enter Europe. Anti-immigrant movements and politicians such as Marine Le Pen in France and Donald Trump in the United States will seize the opportunity to create momentum against immigration and block border entry.
“We announce that the passport holder has passed Leros on 3/10/2015, where he was identified based on the European Union rules, as these were established on the Summit Meeting about the refugee issue”, Alternate Minister of Citizens Protection in Greece, Nikos Toskas said in a statement Saturday.
In a somber statement hours after the attacks, she urged her countrymen to uphold European values of humanity and compassion in the face of terror.
A few of the defenders said the violence in Paris is what the refugees are fleeing, and makes it all the more imperative to keep the programs going. The outgoing government agreed to accept 7,000 refugees from Syria and Eritrea over the next two years.
Germany’s interior minister, however, cautioned against connecting the attacks in France to the debate over the flow of refugees.
“We have been saying that there are enormous security risks linked to migration”.
“Can we say definitely that the passport belonged to the terrorist, though” a third user said implying that the found passport could be someone else’s or part of a setup.
Second, minds as well as borders might start closing.
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