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Europe
Germany needs to limit refugee influx, close borders: Merkel allies
2015-10-05
[REUTERS] Germany needs to limit the number of refugees it takes in or even close its borders, conservative allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
said at the weekend, as the country deals with record inflows of people fleeing from war and poverty.
There is a fine line between kindness and stupidity.
Around 800,000 migrants are expected to arrive in Germany, Europe's largest and richest economy, this year and complaints from politicians, the federal states and the municipalities that they cannot cope are growing.
Actually it's not all that fine.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Europe needed to restrict the refugee intake, and members of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party to Merkel's conservatives in Bavaria, said Germany should shut its borders. Bavaria shares a border with Austria and has borne the brunt of the influx.

"If as many asylum seekers continue to come to Germany as in recent weeks, we won't have any choice but to temporarily stop taking people in and to close the borders to them," CSU politician Stephan Mayer told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS).

Thousands of people are streaming into Germany every day, attracted by relatively liberal asylum laws and generous benefits. Some 6,750 people arrived in Bavaria alone on Friday and another 6,000 piled in on Saturday, a police front man said.
The question is whether this particular barn door can be closed. And then there's the next election, which Frau Merkel most decidedly deserves not to win.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Oops!
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-10-05 09:43  

#2  The numbers are obsolete. 1.5 Million are expected for 2015 alone, 900,000 will arrive October-December.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-10-05 00:33  

#1  See also RUSSIA TODAY > GERMANY FEARS 1.5MILYUHN REFUGEES TO ARRIVE IN [EOY] 2015, CALLS FOR LIMIT TO INFLUX INTO EU.

* SAME > [Twitter] REFUGEE CAMPS COULD EXPLODE/BLOW UP WID VIOLENCE, GERMAN POLICE OFFICIALS SAY.

Circa 10,00 refugees are presently arriving in Germany ona daily basis.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-05 00:18  

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