Germany and Europe should open their doors to refugees fleeing North African unrest and instability rather than barricading the borders, according to the Evangelical Bishop of Central Germany, Ilse Junkermann
Junkermann said in an interview that those fleeing violence in places such as Libya should be granted safety and help.
That we should help civil war refugees should not be put under question, she said. That is Christian duty, citizens duty in a global society.
Europe must help not only in Libya itself but also here in accepting refugees.
Referring to the current arguments over what to do with the illegal immigrants who have already landed in Italy, she said, I find it disturbing how politics is being conducted on the backs of those people concerned.
It is not possible to simply refuse entry, she said. That is too little in a globalised world where one demands the ability to act as free as possible worldwide in ones own interests.
Junkermann said the European Union should develop a migration and integration policy for refugees. There is a clear policy which grants freedom of movement within the European region, and that the borders are open. But the price is high the borders are as good as closed to the outside.
This was unfair, she said, and said that a certain permeability of European borders, should be the aim.
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Then put them in your church and your house, Bishop. House them, feed them, pay them to work - all with your own money, of course, and take responsibility personally if any of them commit crimes.
Every. Damn. One. Of. Them.
Not willing to do that? Then STFU.
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Actually, I'll bet he'll take quite a few and put them up in Evangelical parishes throughout his diocese.
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In other words, foist them off on other people, Steve.
How very compassionate.
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[Iran Press TV] La Belle France seeks tighter border controls by temporarily suspending the 1995 Schengen Treaty after an influx of Tunisian, Libyan and Egyptian refugees from Italia.
"The governance of Schengen is failing. It seems there is a need to reflect on a mechanism that will allow a temporary suspension of the agreement, in case of a systemic failure of an external (EU) border, to intervene through a provisional suspension, until such time as the weakness is corrected," AFP reported the French presidency as saying.
French officials have accused Italia of abusing the treaty after granting 20,000 temporary residence permits to the Tunisian immigrants who had decamped from the unrest following their country's revolution.
Italia, on the other hand, has accused La Belle France of overstepping the agreement when it temporarily stopped trains carrying North African colonists traveling from Italia last week.
The visa-free Schengen zone allows for border-free travel between 25 European countries, excluding Perfidious Albion and Ireland. The current agreement allows for the suspension of the treaty only in cases of a "grave threat to the public order or internal security" for a maximum of 30 days.
As the first country of arrival, Italia is responsible for managing the refugees, reportedly numbering 26,000 from the embattled North African countries this year. Being a former French colony, many Tunisians mostly like travelling to La Belle France where they have friends and relatives.
Last year, La Belle France expelled thousands ethnic Romanian and Bulgarian families, in a move President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... claims was to dismantle illegal camps of Roma gypsies.
Many human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups have called the move xenophobic.
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