By Martin Kreickenbaum Global Research, September 24, 2015 World Socialist Web Site Region: Europe Theme: Police State & Civil Rights, Poverty & Social Inequality print 2 7 1 23 Refugees-Europe A summit of European Union heads of government concluded in the early morning hours of Thursday, with no details of the hours-long discussions or decisions reached given out to the press or public. The Associated Press cited a draft text as saying EU leaders had discussed long-term means to end “the dramatic situation at our external borders and strengthen controls at those borders.”
The AP reported that proposals under discussion included deploying more personnel to seal off EU borders and donating at least €1 billion to international aid agencies to keep refugees in camps near conflict zones such as Syria, while boosting support to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, which are housing millions of people fleeing the fighting in Syria.
The heads of government meeting followed a meeting of EU interior ministers on Tuesday, at which, after 10 hours of talks, the ministers agreed on a new quota system for distributing refugees to individual member states. The quotas have been the subject of heated disputes.
Contrary to the customary procedure by which such policy matters require unanimous agreement, the interior ministers came to a majority decision. The Polish government, which had originally opposed the quota plan, agreed to support it in the course of the meeting in exchange for certain concessions.
Contrary to the initial proposal put forward by the EU Commission, there will be no fixed quotas determined on the basis of population, economic power and unemployment levels. Instead, every government will adopt an admission allotment on a voluntary basis. In addition, individual states will be able to choose which refugees they agree to accept.
Below are the many colorful headlines of the summit's theme.
Merkel is finally admitting that Germany can only assist those refugees.
My question is: Was it not stupid to have used open door policy and not filtered and investigated and used a very effective method of separating those economic migrants from the real refuge seekers?
Refugee crisis: we must act together, says Merkel ahead of emergency summit. (Global Research News)
Striking a more sceptical tone on migration than in previous weeks, Merkel also warned that Germany could not shelter those who were moving for economic reasons rather than to flee war or persecution. same article.
I hope by now she sees what a colossal blunder she committed against the whole European union. And do something to rectify it.
If she is truly justifying her blunder on the open door policy, she should have set a very strong and effective measure on identifying those who are economic migrants as opposed to those who are truly a refuge seekers..Merkel, you are so full of....
While the summit is on the overdrive, finally Merkel is giving the emphasis that help should only be for those refugees, or at least that is how I understand. The problem is that there is no effective and consistent way to figure out who are these true refugees. Establish that then it is within control as to how many can really be helped. For now we all know not all of them are asylum seekers or refugees..
Striking a more sceptical tone on migration than in previous weeks, Merkel also warned that Germany could not shelter those who were moving for economic reasons rather than to flee war or persecution.
that explains why the indolence of the majority of the population, they do think like you Obs. We on the other hand with a handful of us, do feel that we are threatened and worst think that the whole of the world is going to be none other than these muslims.
I hope we are wrong and that you are right and when the time comes, you will never feel the need for us to say: "WE TOLD YOU SO."
On the other hand, it is very evident that there is a conflict right now and it is straining world peace.
I'm offended too, I've printed a letter of a pilot to a Muslim doctor who thought he's being stereotyped, and nothing or no one ever rebuttalled on that, I will re print it, and let's hear from the peaceful Muslims.
Let's try to be friends each other, although you can be friend me but nothing on yours. Try to come to my befriend Capri. Lol..be careful with scammers
It's a very interesting point you brought out Obs, but if they are going back to their tents, I don't think so. Bigotry and hypocrisy in the overdrive. They loath our style of life, they declare us amoral and immoral, yet look at what they've spent the money on, a most modern ways which they called evil.
I swear to my God, that what you're saying is true Ovs. Otherwise if it's not you're doomed forever.
Having said that, you just don't do anything at the moment but stick to your opinion that there's no way in hell, they'll terrorized and muslimize the world.
You know why, these 1.7 billion think that their 10 percent will do good enough job to take care of their united goal. They're just as guilty as any Muslim and that's probably why the open declaration of getting rid of all of them. I will vote for him.
You're absolutely wrong to think that this is to stigmatize muslims. On the contrary, what Trump declared is every sentiment of those including me, who is worried of the future of the world. While it's true, not all of the 1.7 billion muslims are terrorists, what does it matter, they don't show any remorse to the 10 percent of them who terrorize the world, which so far, enough to wipe out all non Muslims because we're too stupid and weak to fight them.
It's very aggravating situation to expect them to follow our ways of life as they despise and loath us. From this considered to be true then they have no intention of respecting the original laws but to replace as they said so I'm their slogans. We heard them.
A family that is foreign to this culture would raise children with their own laws against existing laws, fast forward 30 years, there's no trace left of the original law. Zero, dead, then they succeeded because we let them.
Now whether or not he was bought or went and sold his information, that is the most difficult challenge now for the US or for any country that is trying to defeat them. He already knows a lot of the tactic and equipment being used and this will make it very hard to end this conflict.
Human Rights First - American Ideals. Universal Values. Facebook Facebook Twitter Google+ Dear Phyllis,
The suffering and challenges triggered by the largest global refugee crisis since World War II are mounting daily, and countries around the world, especially the United States, are not doing enough to help those fleeing persecution.
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the escalating violence in their country. There are 7.6 million Syrians displaced internally and over 60,000 people have been displaced globally. In light of those numbers, the U.S. commitment to resettle only 10,000 Syrian refugees falls far short of the strong leadership that should be expected from the United States, and is barely a drop in the bucket given the size and scale of the crisis.
Urge President Obama to lead a global effort to protect Syrian refugees.
The United States has long been a world leader in providing safe haven through resettlement for refugees. The Obama Administration should respond to this crisis by launching and leading a comprehensive global initiative—in partnership with European and other states—to improve protection for refugees and asylum seekers.
Urge the Obama Administration to demonstrate its commitment to addressing this crisis.
The United States should live up to its ideals and lead by example, resettling at least 100,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year and increasing humanitarian and development assistance for education, food, shelter, medical, and other infrastructure needs in the region. In tandem, the United States should press other countries to step up their assistance and resettlement contributions. These actions reflect the ideals that make America great and will have a profound impact on the lives of millions of refugees.
Sincerely,
Eleanor Acer Senior Director, Refugee Protection
What a joke. This letter is full of baloney. If only they know how many abusers of this going on.
I will go to the UN and try to express my opinion on this imbroglio.
The go doers are on the overdrive, without telling the truth that there is only few percentage of those that are truly in need of asylum.
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Borders are tightened while Merkel calls for emergency summit
Yes the very fact that each of the union members has the option to chose whom to accept is good.