EU trying (in vain?) to get new agreement on
migrant redistribution in Europe; fear increase in populismPosted by Ann Corcoran on April 27, 2018
“If we don’t get a deal by the summer we will lose credibility vis-à-vis public opinion and we cannot afford that because it would fuel support for populist and extremist parties across the country.”(Unnamed diplomat from a frontline country)
Invasion of Europe news….Of course nowhere is it mentioned that they must first stop the boats arriving from North Africa (European equivalent of BUILD THE WALL)!
The Bulgarian proposal is pushed by Germany, Sweden and other countries eager to avoid a repeat of the 2015-2016 migration crisis.
“If we don’t get a deal by the summer we will lose credibility vis-à-vis public opinion and we cannot afford that because it would fuel support for populist and extremist parties across the country.” More here.
European Lutherans fight against populism and nationalism!
Politico Europe is reporting that the European Union is working to
get in place (by June) a new plan to redistribute migrants from frontline
countries, but those frontline countries are not happy.
Politico: The political fight over migration is
roaring back to life. Five
EU countries that sit on the bloc’s external borders are bucking a proposed
overhaul of asylum rules, putting in peril efforts to strike a deal by June’s
summit of European leaders.
The
pushback from Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, laid out in a three-page
position paper obtained by POLITICO, comes as Bulgaria, which currently holds
the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, is pushing a proposal aimed
at revising the so-called Dublin Regulation and ending one of the bloc’s most
bitter policy fights.
In
efforts to keep the Visegrad countries onboard, the frontline states (in the
draft proposal) would get the brunt of a provision which, in the draft, says
migrants must stay where they landed FOR up to TEN YEARS!
Their hard position comes on top of the longstanding opposition by the
Visegrad countries, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, to any effort
by Brussels to force countries to accept refugees, or to set new restrictions
on how asylum seekers might be returned to the first EU country they entered.
It
revives the idea of applying mandatory quotas for all EU countries to take a
certain number of refugees, which was imposed temporarily during the crisis but
fiercely opposed, especially by Hungary and Poland. The EU ended the quota
system in September 2017 after transferring fewer than 28,000 refugees, far
short of the 160,000 goal.
However,
the new proposal calls for imposing quotas only if refugee numbers spike,
suddenly setting off another crisis.
Under
this new system, the EU would push for voluntary “allocations” of refugees from
countries that are hardest hit to other willing EU countries, in part by
offering financial inducements.
The proposal is intended to stifle the complaints of anti-migrant
European politicians, but any suggestion of mandatory quotas, even in extreme
situations, is likely to be controversial in places like Austria or Poland.
Fear!
Austria is set to take the presidency of EU, and the Leftists fear that the new
hard line Austrian government will then stymie all efforts to spread the pain
more evenly.
“We want a deal by June because the presidency that comes next is
Austria, which has extremely conservative views on Dublin and migration and
borders,” this diplomat said.
In
related news, the Lutheran World Federation is meeting in Berlin next week to map out their
social justice strategy and plans to defeat POPULISM.
It
is really worth reading the short news story and watching the video, especially
if you are of the Lutheran faith.
See
my complete archive on the ‘Invasion of Europe’ by clicking here.
Comments
The EU needs to end
their policy of dictating to member countries on the refugee issue. All the
migrants who invaded Europe need to go back to their home countries. The Brexit
vote in the UK was ensured by voter reaction to the mess these migrants have
made of Britain.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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