IMMIGRATION thread

[Fragony]

When did I try to tell you what you should do? My point was that with Merkel saying people can come and you harboring them you're pretty much supporting what she said, you want to help and so does she, yet here you claim that she made a big blunder?

Yep. She broke the EU-rules at will and causec other member states a lot of trouble. After the everybody is welcome Germany shut down it's borders, after being total idiots these people are now stuck in Hungary and Croatia. Stupid and not to be trusted. What I do myself is up to me, I am not careless so I help someone out when I can. But when I invite too many guests to a party I don't insist they should stay at my neighbours.

I am sure that plumb eastblock farmhorse has a room to spare, I can also think of a mostly empty building in Strasbourg. It's perfect, thousands can stay there.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yep. She broke the EU-rules at will and causec other member states a lot of trouble. After the everybody is welcome Germany shut down it's borders, after being total idiots these people are now stuck in Hungary and Croatia. Stupid and not to be trusted. What I do myself is up to me, I am not careless so I help someone out when I can. But when I invite too many guests to a party I don't insist they should stay at my neighbours.

I am sure that plumb eastblock farmhorse has a room to spare, I can also think of a mostly empty building in Strasbourg. It's perfect, thousands can stay there.

Leaving aside the personal slur at the end Frag is broadly correct here - first Germany unilaterally said it would take "all Syrians" and now it wants to force other countries to take them instead - but only 120,000 of the million or so we will have this year, when Husar says 40-50 are considered legitimate refugees by Germany.

I suspect in a few months, possibly weeks, Germany and France will be pushing for another 120,000 to be accepted, and then another, and another.

Meanwhile, any pretext of common ground or common governance has collapsed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34332759

EU hold summit a week too late - Slovakia launching legal challenge to being forced to take refugees.