French President Francois Hollande deemed the attacks an act of war.
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There is no European consensus on whether to use more force against Islamic State strongholds, and no consensus on how to cope with the arrival of so many people seeking a better life in Europe. He said it was a rented auto.
The fresh criticism of the plan emerged after officials in Greece said a Syrian passport found at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October.
The widening web of suspected links across Europe looked certain to close down the hatches on its borders as the epic struggle to cope with the worst ever immigration crisis since the second world war wages on.
France has declared a state of emergency and is enforcing checks on all borders in the wake of the attacks. “It is vital that France regains control of its borders, once and for all”, the party’s leader, Marine Le Pen, said Saturday. It was subjected to the collapse of its defense capabilities. Germany, which once welcomed Syrian refugees, said last week it would send a few back to the first European Union country they entered.
European Union countries should not give in to base reactions of rejecting refugees after the Paris attacks because the shooters were criminals, not asylum seekers, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said yesterday. “Paris changes everything”, Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
“The days of uncontrolled immigration and illegal entry can’t continue just like that”.
Stanislaw Tillich, a member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, also called for tighter refugee controls.
“I understand this fear, and we can not completely rule out” the presence of jihadists among the migrants, but “we are dealing with terrorism that took place both before and after the wave of migration”, Koenders said.
On Friday, Merkel vowed to “fight for [her] vision” on refugees.
“We are a welcoming nation, and people from many nations seek safety here. Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage”.
The incoming Polish Minister for European Affairs – Konrad Szymanski has termed the E.U. decision to accept refugees from Syria as naively idealistic following the Friday Paris attacks. Therefore, the Administration’s policies on Syrian refugees should be suspended and a full review of the program and its security risks should be undertaken along with aggressive congressional oversight.
But “after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them”, he says.
Ian Lesser, executive director of the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels office, told Foreign Policy Saturday the attack is “absolutely groundbreaking”.
The Paris terror attacks have prompted growing security concerns, which ultimately challenge the continuity of the Schengen Agreement, USA intelligence company Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
A statement issued after the meeting says the Security Council “emphasizes that a fence would not be aimed at closing the border, but channeling and limiting the flow of the migrants”. A Greek minister said that the 25-year-old Syrian had arrived with a group of almost 70 refugees.
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Recent busts of alleged terrorist cells have added more fuel to that fire. The interior ministry in Munich confirmed the report.
