Police confront anti-immigration protesters in Cologne yesterday
Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
[From article]
Macedonia is considering building a Hungarian-style border fence to stem a rising influx of migrants from the south, foreign minister Nikola Poposki was quoted as saying on Thursday.
[. . .]
West European states like France and Germany have criticised Hungary's ongoing construction of a 108-mile long, 11.5-foot-high fence along its border with Serbia to channel migrants to crossings where they can be registered.
Over 160,000 migrants have entered Hungary from the south this year, transiting Greece, Macedonia and Serbia in that order from war-torn or impoverished countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
[. . .]
Almost all seek to reach wealthier western and northern European Union states like Germany and Sweden.
A single-day record of 7,000 Syrian refugees crossed on Monday into Macedonia, a small and relatively poor former Yugoslav republic.
[. . .]
Also on Thursday, Romania's president says there is "no way" his country will accept the extra number of migrants the European Commission has proposed.
[. . .]
President Klaus Iohannis said Romania will send its interior minister to a special meeting Monday in Brussels to discuss the issue.
"I had a discussion with him today and his mandate is to declare that there is no way Romania will agree to the obligatory quotas."
Mr Iohannis said the EU is seeking to distribute migrants in a bureaucratic way without consulting member states.
Refugees wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni
Photo: AFP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/macedonia/11855675/Macedonia-plans-fence-and-troops-on-Greek-border-to-stop-migrants.html
Macedonia plans fence and troops on Greek border to stop migrants
Country's foreign minister says Hungary-style physical barrier may be necessary as 7,000 Syrian refugees enter Montenegro in single day to reach rest of EU from Greece
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/10/only-ten-percent-of-migrant-influx-has-reached-us-so-far-says-german-minister/
Migrant Invasion Will Reach OVER 10 MILLION Warns German Minister
by NICK HALLETT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/macedonia/11855675/Macedonia-plans-fence-and-troops-on-Greek-border-to-stop-migrants.html
Macedonia plans fence and troops on Greek border to stop migrants
Country's foreign minister says Hungary-style physical barrier may be necessary as 7,000 Syrian refugees enter Montenegro in single day to reach rest of EU from Greece
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[From article]
Europe has barely even seen the start of the migrant influx, Germany’s Development Minister has warned.
Gerd Müller said only 10 per cent of Syrian and Iraqi migrants have reached Europe so far and “eight to ten million are still on the way”, with even more to come from Africa.
“The biggest movements are ahead: Africa’s population will double in the coming decades,” he told Bild am Sonntag, adding: “In the Sahara up to one million people have died trying to escape.”
The European Commission, he added, has lost a significant amount of authority thanks to the crisis. “The protection of external borders is not working. Schengen has collapsed. A fair distribution of refugees has not taken place,” he said.
He said that in the digital age we live in, more people than ever know about the prosperity of Western nations thus making it more likely they will try to travel here.
He also called for a 10 billion euro “Marshall Plan”, with European states paying to rebuild war torn countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya. “All states must pay, especially those that receive no refugees,” he warned.
[. . .]
Mr Müller’s comments echo those of Heinz Buschkowsky, an MP from the Social Democratic Party who predicted the total number of migrants reaching Germany by 2020 would be between five and 10 million.
“The situation is irreversible,” he added. “The people who are here now, this society is challenged to integrate them and to offer them a perspective on life.”
He also blasted those who treat the migration debate with empty platitudes such as “refugees welcome”, saying: “This social romanticism, these beautiful speeches, for someone who comes from experience is very difficult to bear.”
[From article]
Europe has barely even seen the start of the migrant influx, Germany’s Development Minister has warned.
Gerd Müller said only 10 per cent of Syrian and Iraqi migrants have reached Europe so far and “eight to ten million are still on the way”, with even more to come from Africa.
“The biggest movements are ahead: Africa’s population will double in the coming decades,” he told Bild am Sonntag, adding: “In the Sahara up to one million people have died trying to escape.”
The European Commission, he added, has lost a significant amount of authority thanks to the crisis. “The protection of external borders is not working. Schengen has collapsed. A fair distribution of refugees has not taken place,” he said.
He said that in the digital age we live in, more people than ever know about the prosperity of Western nations thus making it more likely they will try to travel here.
He also called for a 10 billion euro “Marshall Plan”, with European states paying to rebuild war torn countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya. “All states must pay, especially those that receive no refugees,” he warned.
[. . .]
Mr Müller’s comments echo those of Heinz Buschkowsky, an MP from the Social Democratic Party who predicted the total number of migrants reaching Germany by 2020 would be between five and 10 million.
“The situation is irreversible,” he added. “The people who are here now, this society is challenged to integrate them and to offer them a perspective on life.”
He also blasted those who treat the migration debate with empty platitudes such as “refugees welcome”, saying: “This social romanticism, these beautiful speeches, for someone who comes from experience is very difficult to bear.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/10/only-ten-percent-of-migrant-influx-has-reached-us-so-far-says-german-minister/
Migrant Invasion Will Reach OVER 10 MILLION Warns German Minister
by NICK HALLETT
10 Jan 2016
link to video
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/10/only-ten-percent-of-migrant-influx-has-reached-us-so-far-says-german-minister/#ooid=B5b2YxMDE66HgTcOOgDIgejlgd65f3Qp
link to video
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/10/only-ten-percent-of-migrant-influx-has-reached-us-so-far-says-german-minister/#ooid=B5b2YxMDE66HgTcOOgDIgejlgd65f3Qp
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