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Title: EU draws up emergency plan to relocate 160,000 stranded refugees across the continent (but Britain will take ZERO)
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... es-continent-Britain-ZERO.html
Published: Sep 3, 2015
Author: Tom McTague, Deputy Political Editor for
Post Date: 2015-09-03 09:19:34 by cranky
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Views: 776
Comments: 10
European Council president Jean-Claude Juncker has drawn up plans to relocate 160,000 refugees EU leaders have drawn up a plan to relocate 160,000 refugees around the Continent – but Britain will remain exempt from taking any. Under the new scheme, migrants stranded in Italy, Greece and Hungary will be transferred to countries across the EU based on their population and economic wealth. It will see Germany granting asylum to 35,000 refugees, France accepting 26,000 and Spain 16,000. Even poverty-stricken Bulgaria and Romania will be expected to take thousands of families. However, the UK – which refused to join the scheme when it was originally set up in May – will not have to take in any refugees despite being one of the largest and wealthiest countries in the EU. If the UK were to take the same share as the rest of the EU it would be expected to grant asylum to around 17,000 refugees - or 11 per cent of the total number. According to today's leaked EU document there are 54,000 asylum seekers in Hungary 39,600 in Italy, 66,400 in Greece. The scale of the crisis has piled pressure on David Cameron to open Britain’s borders to trapped refugees. The Prime Minister insists that the answer to the asylum crisis is not offering refuge to desperate migrants fleeing the Middle East and North Africa. But the public outcry over the EU’s failure to act has grown after the death of two young Syrian brothers who died trying to reach Europe. Diplomatic pressure on Mr Cameron is grown in recent days, with Germany and Austria accusing the British PM of behaving like it is 'out of the club in this big task of sharing the burden'. EU leaders have drawn up a plan to relocate 160,000 refugees around the Continent – but Britain will remain exempt from taking any Migrants board a train at Keleti Railway Station in Budapest today as plans emerged to relocate refugees across the EU Around 2,000 migrants from Syria have been forced to sleep near the Keleti railway station in Budapest Italian minister for European affairs Sandro Gozi suggested Mr Cameron risks losing support for his plans to curb benefits for migrants. The crisis escalated last night with border controls reintroduced after and Germany admitted it could no longer cope with the influx. Berlin had sought to criticise others – including Britain – for not taking in enough refugees after it announced it would no longer deport those coming from Syria. But the EU’s passport-free travel zone was on the brink of collapse after Germany was forced to ask Italy to tighten border controls. As tensions between European leaders unable to agree on how to handle the crisis simmered, Slovakia’s foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement removing border checks between 26 European countries has fallen apart. The human cost: A policeman on a Turkish beach had to gently recover the bodies of two brothers drowned as their family tried to make their way to the Greek island of Kos yesterday Biblical: Thousands of migrants emerge from the hold of a ferry onto the streets of Greece's capital, Athens Breaking through: Migrants storm through a police cordon and cross the border from Greece to Macedonia Chilling echo: In scenes reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Czech police use marker pens to number mainly Syrian refugees, including dozens of children, before arresting them Last night, as the numbers crossing into Germany reached nearly 150 per hour, it asked Italy to impose identification checks at Brennero, on the border with Austria, to ease the flow. An unprecedented surge of migrants has been trying to get to the country after Berlin last week began accepting asylum claims from Syrian refugees regardless of where they entered the EU. It has caused chaos across eastern Europe as authorities have struggled to cope with the vast numbers who, as undocumented migrants, are theoretically barred from travelling across the EU. Figures released yesterday showed a record 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany last month. German officials last night insisted that its request to tighten border controls was a ‘temporary measure’. But Mr Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement had ‘de facto fallen apart’. ‘There are tens of thousands of people walking around here without anyone checking them,’ he said. ‘So, do we have Schengen, or don’t we?’ Stephan Mayer, a senior MP in German leader Angela Merkel’s party, said: ‘I do not think Schengen is over… But I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen.’ David Cameron insists that the answer to the crisis is not offering refuge to desperate migrants fleeing north Africa Tory MP David Burrowes (left) said Britain had taken a lead in providing a humanitarian and military response in north Africa but that had to be matched by a 'refuge response'. Nadhim Zahawi, MP for Stratford-on-Avon, said Britain was 'nothing without compassion' In the Czech Republic, around 200 migrants trying to head to Germany from Hungary were hauled off trains in the southern region of Moravia. Police officers used permanent marker pens to number the refugees, who included dozens of children, before arresting them. An estimated 3,000 people – mostly wanting to get to Germany – were camped at Keleti station in Budapest as officials said that under EU migration rules they were not allowed to travel. Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban will today meet EU chiefs to discuss the crisis. In Austria, 24 Afghan refugees were rescued from an abandoned lorry. They had been locked in and left to suffocate. 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
EU is fucking crazy! Have you been to London? True British are being run out of the city to make way for non product foreigners! Im surprised people stand for this crap. I noticed this 15 years ago. I can't imagine the damage now. I think all the lord(not just English but all over EU) should be strung and till dead and then the bodies be fed to pigs! Yes socialism is great, for the lords but sucks for the peons!
For many years, especially mid-Nineties through 2008 or so, Britain lead the entire EU in allowing immigrants, many from Pakistan. At that time, the rest of the EU had a miserable record on immigration and on making any attempt to incorporate immigrant minorities into their nations. The only other EU country with a comparable record was France, who took in a lot of Muslim immigrants from their old colonial empire in northern Africa. These hordes of French-speaking Africans rot resentfully on the dole in the banlieu slums that form a ring around Paris. But now Britain, with a huge existing immigrant population, is being pressured to take even more when the rest of the EU has finally decided to allow immigrants to enter. It was farsighted of Britain to exempt themselves from future migration policy of the EU, probably anticipating that the EU birth rate would require immigration in the short term and Britain acted early on their own demographic needs. With their exemption, they remain in control of immigration, not Brussels.
Bring in Christians fleeing the Muslims, not one Muslim though. They can fight those seeking to slaughter them because of an interpretation of the Koran. The Christians and the Jews, they need to be saved.
Not really. EU politicians are as beholden to billionaires as are American politicians. Billionaires (e.g., Soros, Zuckerberg, Koch, etc, et al) call the tune and career politicians dance to it. You don't need to look to the EU to see it. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
I remember a London cop used to post about this crap back on FR in the late 90's. Or at least he claimed to be a British cop,anyhow. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Holland took in,and was still taking in 3rd world critters from her former Colonies as recently as a couple of years ago. I have a Dutch friend that gets so mad if you mention it that he practically foams at the mouth. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Over 30 years ago, I heard the joke about how do you identify the Irish bus driver in London. He's the one with a shamrock in his turban. There were a lot of Pakis.
Well 15 years ago there were a lot of Pakis there too. Including the people that ran the hotel we stayed at. It seem like the peons did not like anyone visiting or not. The middle class took it in stride and you would never meet the upper class. It seem to me like a doughnut happening in London. The only problem is the peons had no place to go. Im surprised crime was not through the roof or like all socialist system its just not reported to the official record.
I remember a London cop used to post about this crap back on FR in the late 90's. Or at least he claimed to be a British cop,anyhow. You would have to be blind or mentally ill not to see it.
Recall that Pakistan (independence 1947) was and is a member of the British Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of Nations. The commonwealth nations are not considered foreign to each other.
#2. To: Justified (#1)
Have you been to London? True British are being run out of the city to make way for non product foreigners! Im surprised people stand for this crap. I noticed this 15 years ago. I can't imagine the damage now.
#3. To: Justified (#1)
#4. To: Justified (#1)
EU is fucking crazy!
#5. To: Justified (#1)
Have you been to London? True British are being run out of the city to make way for non product foreigners! Im surprised people stand for this crap. I noticed this 15 years ago. I can't imagine the damage now.
#6. To: TooConservative (#2)
The only other EU country with a comparable record was France, who took in a lot of Muslim immigrants from their old colonial empire in northern Africa.
#7. To: Justified, cranky (#1)
Have you been to London? True British are being run out of the city to make way for non product foreigners! Im surprised people stand for this crap. I noticed this 15 years ago.
#8. To: nolu chan (#7)
Over 30 years ago, I heard the joke about how do you identify the Irish bus driver in London. He's the one with a shamrock in his turban. There were a lot of Pakis.
#9. To: sneakypete (#5)
Have you been to London? True British are being run out of the city to make way for non product foreigners! Im surprised people stand for this crap. I noticed this 15 years ago. I can't imagine the damage now.
#10. To: Justified (#8)
Well 15 years ago there were a lot of Pakis there too.
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