She said, “Let us reply to the terrorists by resolutely living our values and by redoubling those values across all of Europe – now more than ever”.
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Even before Friday, European countries that were previously welcoming, such as Sweden and Germany, were pulling back. Borders have been closed, advantages cut, warnings issued in Arabic to remain away.
London Metropolitan Police Service’s assistant commissioner Mark Rowley told the BBC that policing across Britain would be strengthened but said there would be no change to the threat level which now stood at the second-highest category.
Poland moved first to shut the door.
“And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees”, Juncker said.
Europe never knew how to deal with the migrants.
Peace talks to end the Syrian civil war had drifted along for years before a snowballing refugee crisis in Europe this summer and Russia’s dramatic entry into the conflict in September gave them new urgency.
Szymanski’s comments on the right-wing nationalist website wpolityce.pl made clear that Poland’s new government will not comply with the European Union refugee relocation program. “In the face of the tragic events in Paris, we do not see any political possibility of executing them”. Abdul Selam, 31, who is fleeing Syria, said he fears refugees now “will be considered as probable attackers”.
Friday night’s deadly bloodshed started when two explosions went off outside Stade de France during the national team’s match against Germany.
A former senior intelligence official, who is still well-briefed, said: “This is becoming a strategy for them: to embed among the migrants”. One side believes it’s important to provide shelter to thousands of helpless people who may die if they remain in Syria.
Second, global efforts to address the refugee crisis can involve other, more distant, countries, which are able and should be induced to take refugees.
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov presided at a Security Council meeting late Saturday following the attacks in Paris.
“We have been saying that there are enormous security risks linked to migration”.
After the Paris attacks, he said, his government would watch for signs of right-wing extremism, as well as other forms.
Those sentiments were echoed across the continent over the weekend.
In Croatia, which has become the main Balkan country of transit for migrants, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic reminded that “closing (borders) and barbed wire does not prevent these kind of tragedies”.
In a televised statement, she said France must outlaw Islamist organisations, shut down radical mosques, expel foreign “preachers of hatred” and illegal immigrants, strip binational Islamists of their French citizenship and deport them.
He said seven gunmen – not eight as earlier reported – died in the multiple assaults. But he declined to heed Wilders’ call for a total shutdown of Dutch borders.
For months now, Germany, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been at the forefront of a generous approach to allow migrants and asylum seekers into the country.
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“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.
