The European Union had been struggling to reach agreement on what do with the thousands of people arriving in Italy, Greece and Hungary every week. “Just another day in the EU’s socialist paradise”, Hans Koenig, a reporter in Hungary told Reuters. “In a serious and sensitive matter such as dictating to a country how many people it must accept, when it does not have the opportunity to choose these people, it is definitely a summit that should decide”, he added.
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The European Commission released a statement after the meeting, calling for “more ambition”. We need to maintain a regulated and orderly entry procedure into Germany. “Now is the time for each and every one to take responsibility”.
It may sound alarmist, however for every million migrants that are welcomed in Germany and Austria there could be a further four following them. 8, a spokesman said. Some 16,000 have flooded Munich alone in two days, according to German officials.
The new chief of the Office for Migration and Refugees is federal labour office head Frank-Juergen Weise, who keeps his old job, suggesting the government is keen to get asylum seekers into work rather than leave them on welfare benefits.
Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Austrian interior minister, said no one fleeing war or persecution would be turned back to Hungary, despite the introduction of controls at the border. Hence, the influx of cheap labour will play a great demographic and economic dividend for Germany and it is made feasible by overwhelming political support for the policy.
So have some major European leaders, notably Dr Angela Merkel of Germany.
Merkel’s response on September 5, to open the doors further to alleviate the bottleneck, was motivated not only by fear of an open border conflict.
Serbia says it is not able to handle the vast number of migrants gathered along the border with Hungary, after Hungarian officials closed the crossing point as part of a crackdown on the migrants.
With a need to rebuild after the war and a declining population, Germany in the 1950s allowed an influx of guest workers, many of them Muslims from Turkey. The army will assist police with an initial deployment of about 640 troops, the Defence Ministry said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that under new security measures that took effect Tuesday, his administration will be tough on those who cross the border illegally.
As recently as June, they pledged their support for the European Commission’s counter-terrorism strategy, first created in 2005.
However, he said this would make it more likely the militants could be tracked, while it was virtually impossible to vet refugees for ties to any militant groups.
In a speech previous year , President Joachim Gauck, whose position is largely ceremonial, startled many Germans by asking them not to turn a blind eye to global threats but stand firm for universal values.
“We agreed that this is going to require cooperation with all the European countries and the United States and the global community in order to ensure that people are safe, that they are treated with shared humanity and that we also may have to deal with the source of the problem, which is the ongoing crisis in Syria”.
The majority of these migrants are young men who may now find the pathway to western Europe more hard .
About 8,600 people crossed from Greece to Macedonia from Saturday until Sunday, Krause said from the border Monday.
The European Union failed to agree Monday on plans to redistribute 120,000 migrants more evenly across the bloc, as several countries took matters into their own hands by tightening border controls. He’s travelling with his Nephew and wants to go to Germany. They were incredulous at her suggestion in a newspaper interview last week that she can’t impose limits on the number of asylum seekers Germany will accept.
So, why now? Why are the refugees leaving camps in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan?
The warm welcome provided by my fellow Germans has been impressive: Thousands of volunteers are working in Germany to provide food and shelter for the refugees.
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