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| EU States Agree Relocation of 120,000 Refugees 'by Large Majority' |
| 2015-09-23 |
| [AnNahar] EU interior ministers on Tuesday approved by a "large majority" a plan to relocate 120,000 refugees around the bloc but only after overriding fierce opposition from central and eastern European countries. "Decision on relocation for 120,000 persons adopted today, by large majority of member states," the EU's Luxembourg presidency said in a tweet after an emergency meeting in Brussels. "We, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians against, and Finland abstained. The resolution was accepted," Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said in a separate tweet. The four countries, led by Hungary, are bitterly opposed to the European Commission plan, insisting Brussels has no right to make them take in thousands of the people seeking refuge in Europe. To do so, amounts to a violation of national illusory sovereignty, they argue. An EU diplomat told AFP the decision was taken by so-called qualified majority vote. It means that the Commission failed to get unanimous backing from all 28 member states for its relocation plan ahead of an emergency EU leaders summit Wednesday on the worst migrant crisis since World War II. The squabble was a repeat of the interior ministers meeting last week but this time, pressed by La Belle France and Germany, the plan was put to a vote. The outcome is binding on all 28 member states although implementation may prove problematic given the depth of opposition and the issue will very likely feature again at Wednesday's summit. Last week's meeting did endorse plans to relocate a separate 40,000 refugees which the Commission unveiled in May as the crisis deepened. The diplomat said that of the 120,000, some 66,000 migrants who have been granted asylum will be relocated from Greece and Italia which along with Hungary have borne the brunt of the flood of migrants fleeing war and turmoil across the Middle East and Africa. That leaves 54,000 places -- which Hungary had rejected in its opposition to the Commission plan -- to be redistributed. EU sources said earlier Tuesday Greece and Italia may get most of these places, while others now finding themselves in the frontline such as Austria and Croatia could also get additional help. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 Just a suggestion. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2015-09-23 17:25 |
| #10 That leaves 54,000 places -- to be redistributed. Do you suppose the Progressives planned on redistribution of people as well as other people's money? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-09-23 13:59 |
| #9 Migration as Conquest |
| Posted by: newc 2015-09-23 13:55 |
| #8 What will they do with the other million? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-09-23 11:27 |
| #7 Create signs in Levantine and Mesopotamian Arabic dialects saying variations of "This Way to the Egress." and point them to Russia. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-09-23 11:18 |
| #6 As Timmermans and the other EU plutocrats moved on to the buffet, each were thinking in their own idiom, "Gawd, I hope they don't move in next to us!". |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-09-23 10:08 |
| #5 NOT just Muslims from the ME anymore??? It's not just people from the Middle East already, JosephM, and they are already separating themselves by country and religion so as to be able to fight each other better... and the vast majority claiming to be Syrian, many with newly forged passports to prove it. Some are formally undergoing conversion to Christianity, whether because of true belief or to better their chances of being granted asylum. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-23 09:55 |
| #4 When's the referendum? |
| Posted by: Matt 2015-09-23 09:19 |
| #3 Large majority - of the ruling caste |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2015-09-23 07:48 |
| #2 Wolves & sheep voting together. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-23 03:07 |
| #1 See also BLOOOMBERG > EU AGREES TO TO SHELTER 120,000 REFUGEES, [Quota] VOTE LAYS BARE STRAINS. * RELATED NATIONAL POST > FORMER SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT REFUGEES AGZ THEIR WILL IN NEW EU PLAN. * GLOBAL POST > EUROPES AGING ECONOMIES [Populations = Low Birth-Rates?] STANDS TO BENEFIT FROM INFLUX OF PEOPLE [Refugees]. Again, CAN THE EURO-SOCIALISTS CONTROL THEIR SITUATION OR MUST THEY TURN "SOVIET" = TOTALITARIAN, TO SURVIVE THEIR OWN POLITICAL OR NATIONAL DECISIONS??? VERSUS * FREEREPUBLIC > [Muslim] NIGERIA: LARGER POPULATION THAN ALL OF EUROPE [by 2100]? | [VOA News] AFRICA TO RECORD LARGEST POPULATION GROWTH OVER NEXT 40 YEARS. NOT just Muslims from the ME anymore??? In the Year 2055, iff White JudeoChristian Europeans, Caucasians/Caucasoids are still alive ... ...??? EYES WIDE OPEN, NOT EYES WIDE SHUT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-09-23 00:46 |