INTL EU Refugee/Migration Crises - News Only Thread for September 2015

[Be Well]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mparing-justice-minister-Joseph-Goebbels.html

German official says Merkel’s open door migrant policy will lead to ‘civil war’ after thousands march through one city holding crucifixes during anti-Islam protest

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  [*]8,000 people joined the anti-Islam Pegida movement for protest in Dresden
  [*]Latest rally against Merkel's decision to allow million refugees into country
  [*]Prosecutors open probe into group's founder Lutz Bachmann for slander
  [*]He said justice minister was the 'worst spiritual fire raiser' since Goebbels

SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:07 EST, 3 November 2015 | UPDATED: 16:07 EST, 3 November 2015

A German official has said that Angela Merkel's open door migrant policy will lead to 'civil war' after thousands marched through one city's streets holding crucifixes during an anti-Islam protest.

Hansjoerg Mueller, of the Alternative for Germany party, said the country was 'sliding towards anarchy' and risks becoming a 'banana republic without any government'.

He made the claims after about 8,000 people joined the anti-Islam Pegida movement for a rally in Dresden over Angela Merkel's decision to allow up to one million migrants into the country this year.

Thousands of anti-immigration protesters protesters marched through the streets of a German city in the latest demonstration against the huge influx of refugees

Demonstrators hold an illuminated cross and German flags upside-down during a demonstration of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West) in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Monday

Around 8,000 people joined the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement for a rally in Dresden over Angela Merkel's decision to allow up to one million migrants into the country this year.

Some demonstrators held crucifixes and upside-down German flags while others shouted 'Merkel out!' alongside doctored images of the German Chancellor in a burqa and a Nazi outfit.

The group's leaders, who have been described by German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere as 'hard right-wing extremists', are demanding an immediate end to the policy.

Mr Mueller was later asked for his views on remarks made by Bavarian official Peter Dreier. Mr Dreier had reportedly told Merkel that his town of Landshut would only take 1,800 refugees if a million were welcomed to the country - insisting that the rest would be put on buses to Berlin.

Mr Mueller told RT: 'Usually he does not have the power, but we are not living in usual times.

He added: 'Germany now is somewhere at the edge of anarchy and sliding towards civil war, or to become a banana republic without any government.'

Video of today's protest emerged on YouTube as prosecutors have opened an investigation into the group's founder for slander after he compared the justice minister to Hitler's head of propaganda Joseph Goebbels.

Lutz Bachmann said Social Democrat (SPD) minister Heiko Maas was the 'worst spiritual fire raiser' since Goebbels and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler.

Von Schnitzler was a television commentator in Communist East Germany who strongly criticised Western governments and media.

Austria has seen some 400,000 migrants enter the country since September, most of whom travel onwards to Germany or Scandinavia


The comment is the latest in a series of provocative remarks made at the regular rallies of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA).

Only two weeks ago, a speaker said that concentration camps were 'unfortunately out of action'.

The refugee crisis in Europe has boosted the popularity of Pegida's rallies in the eastern city of Dresden and raised fears about right-wing radicalism.

Protesters hold a banner reading 'Without violence and united against religious wars on German soil - Pegida' during a demonstration of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West in Dresden, Germany

Many voters are worried about how Germany will cope with an influx of about one million migrants this year, many fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa.

Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the group's founder Lutz Bachmann (pictured, centre, in brown jacket) for slander after he compared the justice minister to Hitler's head of propaganda Joseph Goebbels at the rally in Dresden

Social Democrats, who share power with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, expressed outrage at Bachmann's comment. SPD General Secretary Yasmin Fahimi said it was deceitful and disgusting. A spokeswoman for Dresden prosecutors said they had started an investigation into slander. But Bachmann said on his Facebook page that he would not be silenced.

'If the Sharia Party of Germany (SPD) and the whole press... demand hundreds of thousands of investigations, YOU WILL NOT GAG ME! I will still say openly say what I think.'

Bachmann has already been charged by Dresden prosecutors with incitement because of a post on social media last year in which he described refugees and asylum seekers as 'animals' and 'scumbags'.

No trial date has yet been set.

He quit as leader of PEGIDA earlier this year after a photo was published of him posing as Hitler which led to internal squabbles and the grassroots movement all but fizzled out until the migrants crisis swept Europe.

Support for Merkel's conservatives has dropped over her handling of the refugee crisis while the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) is up in opinion polls.

 

[Be Well]

Video of PEGIDA march at the link, can't embed, and of course lots more photos. "Merkel's conservatives" - conservative must have a very different meaning in Germany. Actually who knows what it means here, now.

 

[bev]

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[mzkitty]

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The European Union predicts 3 million more migrants could arrive by the end of 2016 - @ABC

 

[mzkitty]

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Photo: Members of the Spanish navy rescue 557 persons trying to reach Europe off the coast of Libya - @Armada_esp

 

[RCSAR]

I am not sure if this has been posted here yet as my browser does not show the YT box anymore here.

Seems to be German Citizens in a confrontation with the local police trying to keep them away from the invaders. I am actually starting to think the people have had enough. If the Citizens reach the point they are start solving the problem, it will look like it did when the wall came down in Germany except there will be dead bodies everywhere.

The world has seen what motivated Germans can do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBuhk8bIAcc

 

[RCSAR]

German official to Germans: "If you don't like it, leave Germany"

Published on Oct 16, 2015
Germans told to leave Germany if they do not like the immigration policies of the Merkel government. Why wasn't this traitor tarred and feathered run his ass out of town?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Enz3y-sE-4

 

[Tex88]

German official to Germans: "If you don't like it, leave Germany"

Published on Oct 16, 2015
Germans told to leave Germany if they do not like the immigration policies of the Merkel government. Why wasn't this traitor tarred and feathered run his ass out of town?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Enz3y-sE-4

"Democracy: if you don't like what the government decides, you have the freedom to leave".

German author (of Turkish descent) Akif Pirincii replied during a PEGIDA rally "yeah, if you don't like what the government dictates, you have the freedom to leave. Pity the camps are currently not operating, or regime critics could be sent there, right?"

German MSM made it sound like he said "pity the camps are currently not operating", or we could send all immigrants and politicians there. Hence the name "Luegenpresse" for German MSM, "lying journaille".

 

[Be Well]

Mass immigration is on the verge of DESTROYING Europe, blasts LEO MCKINSTRY

SEVERAL millennia were required to build European civilisation but its impending destruction has been the work of just a few years, carried out by a cadre of irresponsible, unpatriotic and deluded politicians led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/co...7147/Mass-immigration-verge-destroying-Europe

By LEO MCKINSTRY
PUBLISHED: 08:25, Thu, Nov 5, 2015 | UPDATED: 09:05, Thu, Nov 5, 2015

Dressing up their vandalism as compassion and their cowardice as moral superiority, these leaders have created an immigration crisis so profound that the very existence of our European culture and heritage is under mortal threat.

The tragic paradox of the obsession with free movement and the abolition of national identities is that Europe in any meaningful sense will probably cease to exist this century.

As the social revolution accelerates traditional values of democracy, freedom and solidarity will be replaced by conflict, sectarianism, oppression and intolerance.

Increasingly Islamified, barbaric and poverty-stricken, Europe will become indistinguishable from large swathes of North Africa and the Middle East.

The mass immigration is on the verge of destroying Europe


Even the stupendously high levels of mass immigration over the past two decades are now dwarfed by the colossal flood of new arrivals that has occurred since the early summer when Merkel made her woefully illconceived pledge that *Germany would welcome anyone claiming to be a refugee.

She may have thought that the open-door policy would provide a counter to Germany’s appalling record of aggression since the 1860s but in reality by wrecking Europe’s social fabric she has added to the long catalogue of Teutonic crimes.

It is thanks mainly to her that so many African, Asian and Middle-Eastern migrants are coming to our shores. In October alone a record 218,000 of them crossed the Mediterranean, more than the entire total for 2014.

Absurdly some metropolitan elitists complain that Britain has failed to join in this demographic upheaval since our Government has said that we will only take 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years.

This ignores the crucial fact that the current annual immigration rate is officially more than 630,000-a-year, with most of the new settlers hailing from outside the EU. How many more are Britain and Europe expected to take?

The potential influx is almost limitless. The United Nations says that globally there are at least 60million people classified as refugees while more than 1.2billion live in dire poverty. But the numbers are already proving catastrophic.

A mood of fear hangs over disintegrating Europe. In southern Spain there have been attacks on churches by Islamists, including damage to an ancient sanctuary and Arabic graffiti sprayed on walls.

Ultra-liberal pro-immigration Sweden has seen some Muslim neighbourhoods in its cities turned into no-go areas, while Malmo has one of the highest rates of rape in the world.

The fraught scenes of chaos in Eastern Europe are replicated at points on the British border, such as Calais, where the vast 6,000-strong migrant camp descends into even greater squalor and tension.

But 95 per cent of the squatters there are not refugees but are tough, fit young men mainly from Africa who have no right to be in Europe at all. If our politicians had any guts they would close down the camp and deport its freeloading residents.

But instead the British taxpayer is being asked to fork out £3.6million a year for improvements at the camp, which will only attract more. The same tensions can be seen at a British RAF base in Cyprus, where a group of migrants are being given shelter and food after landing on the island.

Instead of showing any gratitude some have created disturbances and burnt their tents, hardly the behaviour of people genuinely fleeing persecution. “We want to go to England,” said one, displaying a spirit of petulant entitlement.

It is clear that Europe is now unable to cope. The Greek island of Lesbos has run out of burial space, while tiny Slovenia has 13,000 migrants passing through its borders every day, also setting fire to tents.

Even Germany is struggling. There have been mass brawls at several migrant reception centres and in a chilling echo of the country’s totalitarian past the German authorities are seizing property to provide accommodation for the arrivals.

In one startling symbol of how European society is being overwhelmed the village of Sumte in the north-east is about to see its population increase by 700 per cent through the import of 750 asylum seekers.

As winter approaches and the weather worsens the migrant crisis is set to escalate. A new wave of sentimentality will be unleashed by much of the media, peddling manipulative images of the suffering of the refugees.

Eager to parade their humanitarian credentials politicians will open the doors even further and impose even greater burdens on European taxpayers. So the cycle of decline will gather momentum. None of us ever voted for our demise.

But without any democratic mandate that is what the politicians have inflicted. One nurse in Germany, who is being evicted from her Nieheim flat so it can be used for migrants, told a reporter last month: “I find it impossible to understand how the city can treat me like this.”

Her experience could be a metaphor for the peoples of Europe. The scale of this political treachery is almost incomprehensible.

 

[Be Well]

TEENAGE GIRL ‘RAPED BY SYRIAN MIGRANTS’ AT CARE HOME

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/06/teenage-girl-raped-syrian-migrants-care-home/

NICK HALLETT 6 Nov 2015

An 18-year-old girl claims she was raped by a gang of young Syrian migrants at a care home in Britain.

The victim was subjected to a five-hour ordeal at the home in Gillingham, Kent last weekend after her attackers were housed in the same building.

A source told The Sun: “She is deeply distressed by the ordeal. It was horrific.

“The victim thinks there were five attackers. The issue is what were they doing there in the first place?

“She is a vulnerable teenager and was under the same roof as some of these suspects.”

Four men have been arrested and have already appeared at a youth court hearing at Medway Magistrates Court. They all claim to be under 18, and thus cannot be named, but police believe them to be older than they stated.

Two other men were arrested but later released without charge.

Last weekend, a Sierra Leonean migrant was badly injured after being stabbed by a 19-year-old Somali at an asylum centre in Bavaria, Germany. The two had been arguing loudly when the Somali pulled a knife and stabbed the Sierra Leonean several times.

The victim had to be flown to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment while the Somali man sustained minor injuries.

Europe has witnessed increasing violence as record numbers of migrants pour across its borders, heading north through the Balkans and into Austria and Germany.

In another incident, an Austrian soldier was attacked with a fencepost while patrolling the border with Slovenia this week. The soldier from the 23rd Battalion of Vorarlberg suffered cuts to the face and had to receive treatment at a local hospital

The Austro-Slovenian border has become a major flashpoint in the migrant crisis, as thousands stream across in the space of a few weeks.

Tensions have been growing after Hungary, previously one of the main migrant routes in Europe, sealed its border with Serbia, thus forcing the migrants to travel into Croatia and Slovakia instead.

There remains no indication yet that their numbers will fall.

 

[Be Well]

"Claims" she was raped? Don't they have ways to check medically, in the UK??? What is a "care home"?

Just a teensy snapshot of the mozlem invasion in Europe.

 

[Be Well]

1466 MIGRANTS RESCUED IN A SINGLE DAY OFF LIBYAN COAST

http://www.breitbart.com/national-s...migrants-rescued-single-day-off-libyan-coast/

THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. 6 Nov 2015

On Thursday, 949 migrants were rescued in a total of eight rescue operations off the Libyan coast coordinated by the Central Office of the Italian Coast Guard, and a separate rescue operation by the Spanish military brought aboard another 517 migrants.

In a coordinated effort, rescuers came to the assistance of seven different boats and a barge and brought the nearly 1000 migrants aboard two ships, aided by the Italian Navy, Doctors without Borders, and three international military units involved in the European Union military operation in the Southern Central Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR MED).

This military operation was launched earlier this year by the EU with the goal of saving as many lives as possible in the southern Mediterranean and to disrupt human smuggling operations. The program undertakes systematic efforts to identify, capture and dispose of vessels as well as enabling assets used or suspected of being used by migrant smugglers or traffickers.

On Friday the two ships with the 949 migrants are expected to arrive at the Italian island of Sicily in the late morning. One of the ships, a Coast Guard vessel carrying 681 people, will arrive in Pozzallo, while the Belgian ship Leopold will arrive in the port of Augusta with 268 people.

Meanwhile, in a separate operation, Spain’s Defense Ministry says one of its vessels rescued 517 migrants from a wooden fishing vessel they discovered adrift off the Libyan coast as well.

The Spanish frigate took aboard 442 men, 40 women and 35 children and will deliver them later Friday to the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

On Thursday the European Union released estimates that a staggering three million more migrants could arrive in Europe by the end of 2016, up from the already substantial three-quarter million migrants who have reached European shores so far this year.

According to the EU executive Commission, “overall, an additional three million persons is assumed to arrive in the EU over the forecast period.” Before the end of 2015, another 300,000 are expected.

The vast majority of the migrants are reaching Italy and Greece as their point of entry, resulting in a virtually unmanageable influx into reception centers in those countries. A small percentage of these seek political asylum while many more are looking for better economic conditions and employment opportunities.

The EU autumn economic forecasts predict that migrant arrival rates into Europe are unlikely to slow before 2017.


[TAKE THEM BACK TO LIBYA!!!! What's next, bringing ships to North Africa and opening the gangplank for them, so they won't have to risk rubber dinghies in the Mediterranean???]

 

[bev]

Sure sounds like it, BW.

 

[bev]

Photos at link

http://www.dw.com/en/austria-bears-brunt-after-germany-toughens-refugee-stance/a-18830237

Austria bears brunt after Germany toughens refugee stance

Considerably more refugees are seeking asylum in Austria since Germany announced a tougher policy.

Austrian officials worry a transit zone would confuse issues even more, as Alison Langley reports from Salzburg.

This week Austria has averaged between 500 and 600 asylum requests per day, up from about 400 per day in previous weeks, according to Karl-Heinz Grunboeck, a spokesman for Austria's Interior Ministry.

Salzburg's mayor, Heinz Schaden, said his border town had averaged about 35 requests per day in the last few weeks. On Monday they received 300.

Grunboeck said he could not speculate why his country has seen 37 percent more asylum requests in one week. But Schaden said he felt it was because Germany appeared to be making it more difficult for refugees.
While he praised the current cooperation with Germany, Schaden added that problems could arise if Austria's neighbor erects transit zones.

"If this transit zone comes, then I see a problem," Schaden said. "German officials will have to process asylum requests directly on the border and they will send back people with no rights to asylum - they specifically name Afghanis and we have a lot of Afghanis here. I think then there will really be a backlog on the border," he told DW.

people lining up at border

copyright: APA/BARBARA GINDL

Austria is struggling to cope with the growing influx of refugees

Weighing choices

While politicians both here and in Germany mull over the next steps, Afghani Mahbibi Hosseini, 25, sits under a tree at a temporary camp in Salzburg with perhaps eight or nine family members deliberating whether to stay in Austria or Germany.
Hosseini has just heard from her sister, who already is in Germany, that officials there aren't taking Afghanis anymore and she asks whether that is true.

"If we have no place because the Germans don't let us in, then we have a problem," she told DW in excellent English. "In Syria there has been war for five years, but we have had war for the past 50 years. When I was born, there was war. I'm 25."

She points to a girl who is perhaps two or three years old. "When my daughter was born, there was war. We have no place. What should we do?"

Afghan requests "unacceptable"

Last week Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere signaled a toughening of the government's refugee policy when he announced that his country would send back most asylum seekers from Afghanistan and "tens of thousands" from the Balkans.

More migrants are now coming to Europe from Afghanistan than any country other than Syria, de Maiziere said, adding it was "unacceptable" because many are members of the middle class and residents of the Afghan capital Kabul who "should remain and help build the country up."

three people sitting at table

copyright: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images

Their options are decreasing rapidly
But Hosseini may even have a problem in Austria. This week the country's interior minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, announced a new law that would force most Afghans to wait for three years, rather than one year under current rules, to be able to bring family members to Austria. They would also have to have an independent source of income, health insurance and accomodation.

That law, which is due to take force from mid-November even though parliament would not consider it until December, would apply to those granted "subsidiary protection" rather than those being granted full political asylum, such as most Syrians.

Most Afghans seeking political asylum in Austria are currently granted this temporary permission to stay.

Growing burden

Austria received a total of 66,288 requests for asylum in the first 10 months of this year. The country expects more than 80,000 by year end. Until recently Afghanis were the second-largest group of asylum seekers here after Syrians.

In October, however more Afghanis asked to stay in Austria. Interior Ministry spokesman Grunboeck said he didn't have exact numbers yet for last week or this week, but said it appeared that trend was continuing.

Per capita, Austria has now taken in as many refugees as Germany, Salzburg's mayor Schaden said, adding that the two countries alone could not manage the burden of all the refugees and that it was time other countries stepped up to the plate.

"The countries from the former eastern bloc who came to the EU were so happy to receive monetary help from EU, the development money to help them out and now they say, 'we won't help you.'"

"My worry is that the transit possibility here slowly will be needed for asylum seekers and we can't use it to bring people to the border."

 

[Be Well]

I have sooo many headlines saved....maybe later this evening.

 

[bev]

Posting this OLDER article for a reminder

Posting text only. Video and LOTS of pics at link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sychological-weapon-bombed.html#ixzz3qwd8Wys7

ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon' in chilling echo of Gaddafi's prophecy that the Mediterranean 'will become a sea of chaos'

Italian press today published claims that ISIS has threatened to release the huge wave of migrants to cause chaos in Europe if they are attacked

And letters from jihadists show plans to hide terrorists among refugees

In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi ominously predicted war would come to Libya

He was deposed in a violent coup and killed in October of the same year

Islamic State executed 21 Egyptian Christians on Libyan beach this week

Crisis in Libya has led to surge in number of migrants heading for Europe

By HANNAH ROBERTS IN ROME FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:54 EST, 18 February 2015 | UPDATED: 13:51 EST, 18 February 2015

ISIS has threatened to flood Europe with half a million migrants from Libya in a 'psychological' attack against the West, it was claimed today.

Transcripts of telephone intercepts published in Italy claim to provide evidence that ISIS is threatening to send 500,000 migrants simultaneously out to sea in hundreds of boats in a 'psychological weapon' against Europe if there is military intervention against them in Libya.

Many would be at risk of drowning with rescue services unable to cope. But authorities fear that if numbers on this scale arrived, European cities could witness riots.

Separately, the militants hope to cement their control of Libya then cross the Mediterranean disguised as refugees, according to letters seen by Quilliam the anti-terror group, reported by the Telegraph.

Italian Minister for the Interior Angelino Alfano said on Monday that Libya was the 'absolute priority' and insisted there was 'not a minute to lose' for the international community.

He said: 'If the militias of the Caliphate advance faster than the decisions of the international community how can we put out the fire in Libya and stem the migration flows? We are at risk of an exodus without precedent.'

More than 170,000 migrants arrived in Italy by boat last year. Since last Friday almost 4,000 have been rescued.

The spread of militancy across Libya was predicted by the country's deceased leader Muammar Gaddafi, who warned the Mediterranean would become 'a sea of chaos'.

ISIS had not yet made frightening inroads into Libya when he made this chilling prophecy during his last interview in March 2011.

But the Arab Spring uprising that year sparked a civil war in Libya and opposition forces - backed by NATO - deposed Gaddafi in violent coup just five months after his ominous prediction.

In October 2011, forces loyal to the country's transitional government found the ousted leader hiding in a culvert in Sirte and killed him.

Four years later, Islamic State kidnapped 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Sirte - Gaddafi's birthplace - before releasing gruesome footage of their beheading on the shores of the Mediterranean, just 220 miles south of Italy. In it the terrorists warned that they 'will conquer Rome'.

In response, Italian security chiefs have approved plans to put 4,800 soldiers on the country's streets to help prevent terrorist attacks.

The statement from the Interior Ministry said they would guard 'sensitive sites' until at least June and reports claim 500 will be deployed in Rome - where soldiers are already guarding diplomatic residences, synagogues and Jewish schools.

The troops are also expected to be deployed at tourist venues such as archaeological sites and monuments.

A treaty between Gaddafi and the Italian premier provided for joint boat patrols which curtailed the departure of migrant boats from Libya.

But, as the Libyan despot predicted back in 2011, if the Gaddafis were brought down, Islamists would exploit the power vacuum.

Still holding court in a Bedoin tent while holed up in the fortified citadel of Bab Al Azizya, Gaddafi warned: 'If, instead of a stable government that guarantees security, these militias linked to Bin Laden take control, the Africans will move en mass towards Europe.'
He added: 'The Mediterranean will become a sea of chaos.'

That very sea ran red with blood when Islamic State brutally executed 21 Egyptian Christians on its shores.

The accompanying video, released on Sunday, showed the men dressed in orange jumpsuits and shackled - kneeling in the sand before the militants slit their throats and watched them bleed to death.

Egypt retaliated furiously by launching coordinated airstrikes on ISIS targets in Libya.

The European powers were putting their own security at risk by helping the rebels, Gaddafi pointed out.

He told Il Giornale, the Italian newspaper owned by his former friend Silvio Berlusconi he was saddened by the attitude of his friend. They no longer spoke.

'I am shocked at the attitude of my European friends. They have endangered and damaged a series of great security treaties in their own interest.'

Without his harsh, but effective, regime, the entire North African Mahgreb 'would become another Gaza,' he claimed.

The telephone transcripts, seen by Il Messaggero newspaper claimed to provide evidence 'that IS will use the migrants as a "psychological weapon" against countries that say they want to intervene in Libya, in particular, against Italy.'

'As soon as our country mentioned armed intervention on Libya the jihadists suggested they let drift, bound for Italy, hundreds of boats full of migrants. The figure discussed is five hundred thousand, most of the 700,000 that are on the coast waiting to board,' the newspaper reported.

Following the dire threat Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi immediately backtracked from his government's previous rhetoric saying that 'it was not the time for military intervention'.

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said this morning that Italy does not want to embark on 'adventures, never mind Crusades' in Libya.

But former President Giorgio Napolitano said that the 'biggest error' in the post-Gaddafi's period was the European Unions 'lack of involvement' in the country.

Meanwhile following direct threats on Rome, the commander of Vatican City's 110-man Swiss Guard said his forces are ready to defend Pope Francis if ISIS attempt a strike .

Colonel Christoph Graf said 'Following the terrorists' threats, we're asking the guards to be more attentive and observe peoples' movements closely. If something happens we're ready, as are the men of the Gendarmerie.'

 

[bev]

Deleted. Article not current.

 

[bev]

Deleted. Article not current.

(I hate it when you follow a link in a current article which takes you to one that is months old!)

 

[Be Well]

I will take a look!

In the meantime, I think you, me and almost any random person off the street could think in 30 seconds how to solve it...

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151109/eu-europe-migrants-cb99d70c1b.html

EU warns of refugee 'catastrophe' as winter closes in

Nov 9, 2:07 PM (ET)
By LORNE COOK

(AP) French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, arrives for a meeting of EU justice and...
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union warned on Monday of a looming humanitarian "catastrophe" with tens of thousands of people traveling through the Balkans to northern Europe as winter closes in.

More than 770,000 people have arrived in the EU by sea so far this year, overwhelming border authorities and reception facilities. Many have made the arduous land journey on foot through the Balkans in search of sanctuary or work in countries like Germany or Sweden.

The EU's 28 member nations have pledged to provide experts and funds to help manage the emergency, and to share refugees among them.

But the resources have been painfully slow in coming.

(AP) French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, right, is hugged by Luxembourg Foreign...
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"The European Union must do everything to avoid a catastrophe as winter closes in," Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said after chairing the latest in a long series of high-level talks on the challenge. "We cannot let people die from the cold in the Balkans."

To help manage the influx, EU border agency Frontex has called for 775 extra officers, but member states have so far only offered about half that amount. Slovenia asked for 400 more police officers within a week to help out. Almost three weeks later, less than half has been pledged.

A so-called relocation plan is meant to share 160,000 refugees arriving in Greece and Italy, but barely more than 100 people have been moved so far.

"We need to move from the dozens to the hundreds," the EU's top migration official, Dmitris Avramopoulos, told reporters after the meeting in Brussels.

Asselborn said the ministers had discussed setting up "processing centers" in the Balkans, where people could be registered and given information as they travel further north. But they would also have to accept to have their fingerprints taken, which some migrants are refusing to do.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that his country had committed to relocate 30,000 refugees "in coming weeks and months."

He also urged his EU partners to live up to their pledges and to enforce the rules in place on returning people who don't qualify for asylum back to their home countries.

"Solidarity can't work if we are not determined enough to implement the measures that we have already agreed," he said.

 

[Housecarl]

I will take a look!

In the meantime, I think you, me and almost any random person off the street could think in 30 seconds how to solve it...

The trick would be able to do so without opening yourself up to a war crimes/crimes against humanity charge.

 

[Be Well]

The trick would be able to do so without opening yourself up to a war crimes/crimes against humanity charge.

Easy. No more bennies of any kind whatsoever. Nada, zilch, nothing, zero. They'd self deport and ways could be found to help in that regard - here's a ship! Get on and you can go home!

 

[bev]

No fingerprint, no bennies.

 

[bev]

Text only; pics at link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-Europe-new-EU-bid-tackle-border-crisis.html

Migrants will be locked up if they refuse to be fingerprinted when they arrive in Europe in new EU bid to tackle border crisis

Migrants who refuse to give fingerprints after reaching EU will be detained

Border guards could use force to ensure refugees identify themselves

New processing centres prevent people travelling through Europe freely

EU ministers committed to controlling numbers flooding into the continent

For the latest on the refugee crisis visit www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis

By JOHN STEVENS, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 15:43 EST, 9 November 2015 | UPDATED: 06:18 EST, 10 November 2015

Migrants who refuse to give their fingerprints after crossing into Europe will be locked up under European Union plans to get a grip on the crisis.

Border guards could start using force to ensure new arrivals identify themselves after EU ministers agreed to take a tougher stance.

Processing centres will be built both inside and outside the EU to ensure that people can no longer travel through Europe freely.

In recent months, Greece and Italy have failed to identify thousands of migrants who landed on their shores as they refuse to be fingerprinted in order to sidestep EU law, which says they must claim asylum in the country where they entered.

Instead hundreds of thousands have travelled through the continent, with most hoping to get to Germany.

At the summit in Brussels attended by Home Secretary Theresa May, ministers committed to taking action to control the ‘exceptional’ numbers who continue flooding into the continent.

They agreed ‘to overcome the potential lack of cooperation of migrants as they arrive into the European Union’ by making ‘full use’ of ‘coercive measures, including, as a last resort, detention’.

Migrants could be asked to choose between refusing to be fingerprinted, getting locked up and possibly deported, or giving their fingerprints, asking for asylum and moving into an open immigration centre.

Luxembourg foreign minister Jean Asselborn, who chaired the meeting, said: ‘It’s crucial we slow down migratory flows to make more manageable.

‘The policy of just letting people through is over. We cannot do that.

‘We have to know, these people who are knocking at our door, exactly who they are.
Mr Asselborn said processing centres would be built along the most popular migrant routes so that it was not left down to Greece and Italy to register arrivals.

‘People are refusing to have their fingerprints taken. Just look at the way Greece is laid out, there are all these islands. It’s absolutely impossible if you’ve got 10,000 people coming in each day,’ he said.

‘There are people who slip away who are never identified, never registered.

‘So there should be processing centres where they can deal with the fingerprinting, registration and listen to their stories to see if they are entitled to asylum.

‘[They] could exist right along route and help with asylum applications or make sure they are returned. These processing centres could be established inside and outside the European Union.’

Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Commissioner for migration, said: ‘It is time to shift gears and start delivering on all fronts.

‘During the last months we have talked a lot, it is the time to deliver and do more.’

On Wednesday, David Cameron and leaders from EU and African countries will meet for a migration summit in Valletta, Malta.

African countries could be offered more than £1billion to take back tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers from Europe.

A draft of the proposals also shows plans for Europe to attract some of Africa’s most educated people by offering visas, language training and jobs to doctors, students and entrepreneurs from the continent.

The strategy purports to offer a ‘legitimate’ route to migration for the most skilled people in the region.

EU ministers hope it will lessen the demand for people-smuggling, which has seen thousands risk their lives in perilous journeys across the Mediterranean.

However, a senior EU official yesterday admitted that in discussions ahead of the summit, African leaders were demanding more people are allowed to come to Europe, while also trying to water down their commitments to take back failed asylum seekers.

He said: ‘What remains to be discussed is certainly this idea of returns and readmission where some of our African partners are still looking for ways of redrafting some of the present version that is on the table, namely they would like us to insist more upon voluntary returns that other types of return.

‘There is still some pushing by our African partners to try and get more, if possible, on legal migration, to get a bit more opening from EU member states.’

Ahead of the week of migration summits, European Council president Donald Tusk warned Angela Merkel that Germany needs to be tougher in the crisis and do more to help secure Europe’s external borders.

‘Leadership responsibility also means securing Europe’s external borders together with other member states,’ Mr Tusk told German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag.

‘I understand why, due to historical reasons, Germany may have difficulty setting up a strict regime on its borders. But for Germany, European leadership responsibility also means controlling Europe’s external borders if necessary energetically in a pan-European unit.’

More than 130 migrants were rescued from a dinghy in the Mediterranean by a Royal Navy warship today.

For the third time in a fortnight, refugees were picked up by Portsmouth-based HMS Richmond and given food and medical assistance by its crew.

It brings the number of people rescued by Royal Navy ships in the Mediterranean since May - first by HMS Bulwark, then by survey ship, HMS Enterprise, and now jointly by Richmond and Enterprise - to nearly 8,000.

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[bev]

Text only; pics at link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ell-rioting-migrants-Jungle-refugee-camp.html

'If one day we have a revolt inside the camp, it will be pandemonium': French police fear escalation in violence in Calais after sixteen officers injured by rocks hurled by migrants during riots

Several hundred migrants staying on the coast rioted in Calais last night

Sixteen police officers were injured by rocks thrown by the refugees

Trouble began when they tried to block traffic on the main road into Calais

Riot police used 300 tear gas canisters to quell the chaos

See more on the refugee crisis at Calais: www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis
By PETER ALLEN IN CALAIS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:59 EST, 9 November 2015 | UPDATED: 13:32 EST, 9 November 2015



Sixteen police officers were injured during a riot at the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais today as they used 300 tear gas canisters against UK-bound migrants.

Hundreds of mainly young men went on the rampage on roads next to the sprawling settlement in the port town.

The riot comes just a week after the French government was ordered to improve conditions in the refugee camp, where the majority of those seeking asylum in Britain are staying.

'The trouble started at around 11pm on Sunday evening,' said a spokesman for the Pas de Calais prefecture. 'Around two hundred people tried to slow down or block traffic on the road leading into Calais.'

This is a common tactic employed by the refugees, as they try and get on board lorries heading towards ferries or the Channel Tunnel.

The spokesman added: 'These attempts went on until around one in the morning, meaning a security detachment had to deployed, and then the migrants started throwing objects at them.'

Tear gas and baton charges were used to contain the riot, with police injured by rocks and other projectiles.

One officer at the scene said 300 tear gas canisters had to be used by CRS riot squads to try and dispel the rioters.

He said 'sixteen officers were treated for light injuries at the scene of the violence.'

Gilles Debove, of the SGP Police-Force Ouvriere union in Calais, told The Daily Telegraph: 'It’s the first time that it’s been this violent and that we’ve unfortunately had so many colleagues injured.

'We’re worried that if one day we have a revolt inside the camp, it will be pandemonium.'

There are currently some 6,000 refugees sleeping rough in the Pas de Calais area as they wait for their chance to get to Britain, where they will claim asylum or disappear into the black economy.

Last week the French government was ordered to improve conditions in 'The Jungle', where the majority of them are staying.

Judges in Lille ruled that its current state was not good enough, and thousand of pounds worth of work was needed.

This has increased fears that the camp is becoming institutionalised, and so becoming a magnet for vastly increased numbers from all over the world.

Fights are now a regular occurrence as different groups of migrants fight over routes into Britain, while people smugglers also prey on those living in the camp.

An administrative court in Lille called for immediate action to prevent 'serious human rights violations' highlighted by a number of humanitarian groups, including Catholic Relief Services and Doctors of the World.

Now aid groups also want to see the number of meals available increased from 2500 a day to 6000, and it wants more empty houses in the Calais area handed over to migrants.[Give them more stuff and you'll get more "refugees."]

Those living in the camp make daily attempts to get to England, either by hiding in the back of lorries boarding ferries, or breaking into the Channel Tunnel and getting aboard a train.

The Calais authorities, including mayor Natacha Bouchart, have long argued that Britain's generous benefits system is one of the main reasons why so many want to travel there.

Ms Bourchart has called on the British to cut down on abuse, so as to prevent her town being used as a staging post to get into the UK.

Those congregating in Calais come from numerous war-torn countries, including Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea.

 

[Be Well]

Thank you, bev, for adding to this thread. The articles are overwhelming and it appears that the flash point in Europe is not too far away.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...within-her-own-party-over-refugee-crisis.html

Angela Merkel faces outright rebellion within her own party over refugee crisis

Two of the German chancellor's ministers have supported changes to asylum rules for Syrians, urging the cessation of automatically recognising Syrians

By Justin Huggler, Berlin7:09PM GMT 09 Nov 2015

Angela Merkel is facing an outright rebellion within her own party after two of her most senior ministers directly challenged her “open-door” refugee policy.

The German chancellor’s office was forced to intervene at the weekend to block an unauthorised attempt by Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, to change the asylum rules for Syrian refugees.

But Wolfgang Schäuble, the influential finance minister, has since come out in support of Mr de Maiziere’s initiative, alongside a host of senior party figures.

The interior minister recently ordered ministry officials to stop automatically recognising Syrians as refugees under the Geneva conventions, it has emerged.
He wants most Syrians to be granted “subsidiary protection”, a more limited form of temporary asylum, and prevent them bringing family members to Germany.

Mrs Merkel’s office quickly overturned the order, which appeared to have been issued without the chancellor’s knowledge.

But Mr Schäuble spoke out in support of the idea. “Of course we have to limit family reunification, because our capacity is not unlimited,” he told ARD television.

“I consider this a necessary decision and I’m sure we can quickly reach agreement on it in the coalition.”

Mr Schäuble said in a second interview on Monday: “If they all want to come to Europe, instead of solving the problems in Syria, they will never be solved."

The challenge from the two most senior ministers from her own party has left Mrs Merkel increasingly reliant on her coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), for support for her policy.

Germany expects to host at least 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, and there are growing concerns that the right to “family reunification” could see the country overwhelmed.

Under the existing rules, those who are given full refugee status are entitled to bring their family members to Germany to live with them.

Mr de Maiziere’s move was a direct challenge to Mrs Merkel, who has staked her political future on her refugee policy.

Germany currently grants most Syrians full asylum automatically, and has even waived EU rules under which refugees should apply for asylum in the first member state they reach.

It is not the first time Mrs Merkel and her interior minister have clashed over refugee policy. When Mr de Maiziere was seen to have mishandled the crisis earlier this year, Mrs Merkel removed control of asylum from his ministry and put it under direct control of her own office.

It appears Mr de Maiziere did not inform the chancellery of his new initiative. Peter Altmaier, Mrs Merkel’s refugee coordinator, said the first he heard of it was an angry call from Sigmar Gabriel, the vice-chancellor.

Mr Altmaier described the episode as a “brief irritation”, but Robert Habeck, an opposition Green party politicians, described it as an “attempted coup”.

Horst Seehofer, the Bavarian state prime minister who has become Mrs Merkel’s bête noir over asylum policy, quickly seized on the interior minister’s initiative.

“Thomas de Maiziere is right,” he told Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. “We must start applying the law and check the status of every Syrian refugee thoroughly.”

Senior members of Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrat party (CDU) spoke out in favour of the idea.

“Anything that helps to curb the influx and sends a signal that our capacity is limited is right and important,” Carsten Linnemann, a prominent MP, told Spiegel magazine.
“The last few days were certainly not a triumph of communication but everyone in the CDU agrees with the interior minister that family reunification must be limited,” Jens Spahn, a junior minister in the finance ministry, said.

Meanwhile, the German government has drawn up secret plans to cope with a political and humanitarian crisis if countries in the Balkans close their borders to refugees according to a leaked confidential report.

The report, prepared by several government agencies including German intelligence, predicts “panic and chaos” and “storming of borders” if the refugee route across Europe is closed, according to Welt newspaper.

The leaked details come after Mrs Merkel recently warned that border closures could lead to “military conflict” in the Balkans.

Hungary has already closed its borders with Serbia and Slovenia in order to prevent refugees entering its territory.

The report warns that a simultaneous closure by Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia could create an “impasse” on the refugee route across Europe and “trigger panic and chaos among migrants and authorities”.

Greece’s current “revolving door system” for asylum-seekers would come to a halt. There would be a “backlog” of refugees and “the humanitarian situation would continue to deteriorate”.

The report predicts a number of possible scenarios, including the storming of closed borders by refugees.

In other scenarios, asylum-seekers would seek to reach northern Europe via Bulgaria, or travel from Greece to Albania by small boat.

If refugees became stuck in Turkey, they could seek to be smuggled as far as Italy by ship – a far longer and more hazardous crossing than the short hops between Turkey and Greece or Libya and the southernmost Italian islands most currently undertake.

The numbers arriving in Europe will continue to rise, the report predicts. “Migration by sea from Turkey to Greece rose again in October,” it says.

The report was prepared by the BfV and BND – the German equivalents of MI5 and MI6 – together with the foreign ministry, the federal police, and the federal office for migration and refugees.

 

[Be Well]

Germany tones down welcoming message for Syrian refugees

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-tones...0NThjBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM1BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--

Reuters
6 hours ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - Syrian refugees who have made it to Germany may be sent on to other European countries, the German Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, an apparent reversal of an earlier policy that suggested all asylum seekers from Syria would be allowed to stay.

In August, Germany decided to waive for Syrian refugees the European Union's Dublin rules, which oblige migrants to request asylum in the first EU country they arrive in.

But since then, Germany has struggled to cope with the flood of migrants, the biggest on the European continent since World War Two. Last week, the Interior Ministry said a record 181,000 migrants had arrived in Germany in October. The government expects 800,0000 to one million overall.

In an emailed statement, the Interior Ministry said the Dublin rules had applied to Syrian nationals, which make up the biggest group of asylum seekers in Germany, since Oct. 21.

It said the Ministry for Migration and Refugees would decide case-by-case whether to let migrants apply for asylum in Germany or transfer them to other EU states.

In recent days calls, have grown among conservative politicians to limit the flow of migrants, including a proposal to cancel family reunion rights for some Syrian refugees.

On Sunday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Germany needed to let world know that it's reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe's flood of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

(Reporting by Thorsten Severin and Caroline Copley)

 

[Be Well]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/10/26-police-injured-in-clashes-at-calais-migrant-camp/

26 POLICE INJURED IN CLASHES WITH MIGRANTS AT CALAIS

NICK HALLETT 10 Nov 2015

Tensions at the Calais migrant camp in northern France are heating up once again after 16 police officers were injured in a single night as migrants tried to cross into Britain.

Around 200 migrants threw objects at police and tried to block traffic on the main road to the port. A police spokesman said they spent three hours trying to calm the situation before security forces fired “almost 300″ tear gas grenades.

The Local quotes police sources who told them that a total of 26 officers suffered injuries after being hit by rocks, although none was severely hurt.

Gilles Debove of the SGP Police-Force Ouvrière union said: “It’s the first time that it’s been this violent and that we’ve unfortunately had so many colleagues injured. We’re worried that if one day we have a revolt inside the camp, it will be pandemonium.”

“The problem is you can’t predict what will happen here. We work from day to day.

“In all honesty we just don’t know what the solution is to this crisis. There are 6,000 people living in this camp. We will do our job and do it with courage but the officers are very downbeat. They have 26 injured colleagues.”

Authorities have recently bolstered security around the port of Calais, as well as the Eurotunnel site, with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve claiming “you can no longer get into Britain” by hiding on trains or lorries.

Although clashes between police and migrants are a regular occurrence in Calais, Sunday night’s clashes were far worse than normal and are provoking fears that situation may deteriorate further.

The migrants are mostly from the Middle East and East Africa, with the majority hoping to stay only temporarily before smuggling themselves into Britain. However, many have been frustrated in their attempts as Britain refuses to let them in.

Last month, however, Breitbart London reported on British anarchists who tried to help the migrants cross into the UK by encouraging them to break down fences and storm the Channel Tunnel terminal.

An emergency services spokesman said: “They were very clearly helping to break down fences and guiding the migrants in a co-ordinated attack.

“Fighting broke out with security guards, and we had to treat around ten migrants. Five ambulances were at the scene.”

It is not known whether any anarchists assisted the migrants in Sunday’s violence.

 

[Be Well]

I just found about 15 more articles, just from the last day or two.

Incredible, Europe is going to burn up, explode or collapse soon.

 

[bev]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-thousands-wave-migrants-arriving-Europe.html

Ikea is running out of BEDS

Ikea is running out of BEDS after local authorities order thousands for the wave of migrants arriving across Europe

Firm said it would be 'difficult to maintain supply' in Sweden and Germany

Bosses say there is a shortage of bunk beds, mattresses and duvets

Three million refugees and migrants could arrive in the Europe by 2017

By KATIE LOUISE DAVIES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:56 EST, 7 November 2015 | UPDATED: 19:05 EST, 7 November 2015

Ikea is running out of beds as local authorities order thousands for the number of migrants arriving in Europe.
Officials handling the refugee crisis are buying beds from the furniture company as hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arrive in the continent.

But the company said it would be 'difficult to maintain supply' if the pace of the crisis didn't decline.

The spike in demand has meant that Sweden and Germany are running out the of the flat-packed items, which are imported from manufacturing centres in Asia.
When asked about the impact of the migrant crisis on its continental stores, Ikea spokesman Josefin Thorell told the Daily Telegraph: 'There are some shortages of bunk beds, mattresses and duvets.'

The e-mail to the Bloomberg news agency said: 'If the situation persists we expect that it will be difficult to keep up and maintain sufficient supply.'

MailOnline have contacted Ikea for a comment.

Three million refugees and migrants could arrive in the European Union by 2017, according predictions made by the EU's executive arm.

The European Commission has estimated one million arrivals in total during 2015, soaring to 1.5million in 2016 and then decreasing to half-a-million in 2017.

Three million refugees and migrants could arrive in the European Union by 2017, according predictions made by the EU's executive arm.

The European Commission has estimated one million arrivals in total during 2015, soaring to 1.5million in 2016 and then decreasing to half-a-million in 2017.

However, once unsuccessful asylum applications have been taken into account, this will only represent a 0.4 per cent population increase.

And both Germany and Sweden are feeling the impact.
Those nations, among others, want the EU to apply its budget rules with flexibility, taking into account Europe's biggest refugee emergency in well over half a century, and avoid reprimanding member states for excessive spending and deficits.

The Commission said on Thursday that Sweden, which has the highest share of refugees per capita, is likely to feel the economic impact most, perhaps 0.5 percent of its gross domestic product this year.

On the same day Britain's Secretary of State for the Department for International Development Justine Greening claimed that Europe was likely to be mired in a migrant crisis for the next two decades.

Morgan Johansson, Sweden's migration minister, told the Telegraph: 'Those who come here may be met by the message that we can't arrange housing for them.

'Either you'll have to arrange it yourself, or you have to go back to Germany or Denmark again.'

In Germany, Christoph Hillenbrand, senior administrator of the Upper Bavaria district around Munich, told the newspaper: 'Ikea can't keep up with the demand.'
Ikea is well known for its affordable furniture and opened the first store UK store in Warrington in 1987.

 

[bev]

Text only; pics at link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lion-year-vital-trade-routes-ground-halt.html

European migrant crisis cost British business £660million last year as vital trade routes ground to a halt

Lorry loads of cargo such as food and medical supplies were destroyed

Delays caused by border closures had a crippling effect on vital deliveries

Report found that continued flow of migrants will have more severe effect

Scale of migrant crisis left many European countries struggling to cope

For more on Europe's refugee crisis visit www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis

By MARIO LEDWITH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 14:43 EST, 8 November 2015 | UPDATED: 06:29 EST, 9 November 2015

The European migrant crisis cost British businesses £660million in the last year after the huge influx of people ground vital trade routes to a halt, a report has found.

Lorry loads of vital cargo such as food and medical supplies had to be destroyed after desperate migrants climbed on board vehicles seeking a way into Britain.

Delays caused by border closures across Europe as countries struggled to deal with the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants had a crippling effect on deliveries.

A report has warned the the migrant crisis cost British businesses £660million in the last year, with delays to deliveries and cargo being destroyed.

Experts warned that the huge cost of the crisis was leading to an increase in the cost of goods and said the problems could lead to an increase in the cost of living if not addressed.

The report, compiled by the British Standards institution (BSI), also warned that the continued flow of migrants will have a more severe effect on the British economy in coming years.

It found that delays at the Channel Tunnel in Calais due to strikes and attempts by migrants to cross enter Britain cost British cargo shippers £800,000 every day.

In another case, a shipment of pharmaceuticals worth nearly £2.6million had to be destroyed after a group of migrants ‘contaminated’ the shipment.

The report blamed border closures in countries such as Germany, Slovakia and Hungary for slowing the movement of goods across Europe and causing businesses to meet delivery deadlines.

The scale of the migrants crisis has left many European countries struggling to cope with the influx of people and the effect on trade.

France announced last week that it was to bring back passport checks on all its borders with the European Union.

Officials said the move was necessary to keep order as it hosts the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change from the end of the month. It follows moves by other countries in the EU's border-free Schengen Zone, including Germany, to reintroduce checks during the crisis.

BSI’s Jim Yarbrough said: ‘More so than any other economic bloc, Europe relies upon free trade.

‘Every shipment delayed, contaminated or destroyed, raises the cost to the end-consumer.

‘For exports this hurts competitiveness, undermines productivity and risks jobs; for imports it raises the cost of living for each and every Citizen.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-trade-routes-ground-halt.html#ixzz3r99S9nOV
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[Be Well]

I wonder how long before there are serious uprisings by European citizens against their governments and the invasion. I give it one month max.

I'm really rotten with predictions though.

 

[bev]

A feel-good story for a change. You can see pics and listen to this man play, at the link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-playing-refugee-visa-UK-play-orchestra.html

Fancy coming to the UK? I'll try and fiddle it for you!
British tourist vows to help migrant reach England so he can join an orchestra after hearing his violin skills in Greece

Iranian refugee in Greece impressed a British tourist with his musical talent

The British tourist, only known as Ethan, offered to help him come to UK on a temporary visa

Do you know who the British tourist is? Email news@mailonline.co.uk

By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:23 EST, 6 November 2015 | UPDATED: 14:30 EST, 6 November 2015

A violin-playing refugee in Greece could soon be on his way to England after he impressed a British tourist so much that the man promised to help him gain a place in a UK orchestra.

Greek media reported that the man, identified as an Iranian refugee named Veery, had been a musician in his home country.

He took his violin with him when he fled so that music could accompany him on his journey.

After safely arriving on the Aegean island of Chios in Greece, he took to playing music on the streets where he was spotted by the British tourist.

The British man was so enchanted by the performance that he offered to help him get permission to come to the UK on a temporary visa for creative workers so that he could play in a British orchestra.

It is not known who the British man is, or what his connections are with the art world, but he was identified by his first name of Ethan.

He said he was considerably impressed by the violinist who was performing the famous Greek traditional song "Nefelis".

Veery said that he had taught music and also played in a local symphony orchestra, and had fled with nothing other than his violin.

 

[mzkitty]

4h
Slovenia brings trucks with wired fence to border with Croatia to start building fence to control migrant inflows, @Reuters photographer reports
End of alert

 

[mzkitty]

11m
Denmark Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen vows to tighten immigration rules due to recent increase in people seeking asylum - @ABC

12:45 p.m.

Denmark's prime minister says the country will tighten its immigration rules to stem a recent increase in people seeking asylum.

Unlike neighbors Germany and Sweden, Denmark has not seen dramatic numbers of migrants this year, which Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said shows his government's strict immigration policies are working.

However, he told reporters Wednesday that further restrictions are needed after 3,600 people applied for asylum in Denmark in October.

The new measures include reducing benefits for asylum-seekers, shortening residence permits for those allowed to stay and stepping up efforts to deport those who are not.

The center-right leader says "we are not going to have the chaotic situation in Denmark that we have seen in other countries."

Denmark has received about 10,000 asylum-seekers this year while Sweden received a similar number just last week.

http://abcnews.go.com/International...eader-vows-tighten-immigration-rules-35123005

 

[Possible Impact]

Bryan MacDonald ‏@27khv 36m
Schengen in crisis:
Sweden will start border controls on German & Danish borders
from noon tomorrow, Stockholm Radio reports.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc
WATCH: The Anti-Migrant Video Going Viral Across Europe
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by Oliver Lane11 Nov 2015362

‘With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations’, a slick, hard-hitting film about the European migrant crisis is going viral in Europe, already watched at least half a million times.

Although the 19-minute film may feel like a dispatch from the future, it is cut entirely from recent news reports, police camera footage, and interviews. Kicking off with scenes of a modern car ferry disgorging thousands of illegals into Greece, the film then cuts to dozens of aerial shots of columns of migrants marching north into Europe.

The film then changed to the harrowing testimony of one young Greek woman who was unable to hide her horror and despair at the scale of the migrant crisis sweeping over her home island of Lesbos. Just six miles from the Turkish coast, the island was subjected to migrant riots in September as newcomers turned on their hosts for not moving them to mainland Europe fast enough.
With Open Gates

Drone footage used in the film / YouTube

As Breitbart London reported at the time, the tearful woman tells a news crew: “We are in danger, every day, every minute. We need someone to protect us. They come into our houses. I want to go to work, but I can’t. Our children want to go to school, but they can’t. They have stolen our lives!”.

Also featured is American presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who gives his opinion on the migrant crisis: “I’ve been watching this migration, and I’ve seen the people.

“I mean, these are men. They are mostly men, and they are strong men… they look like prime time solders. Look, Europe is going to have to handle, but they are going to have riots in Germany.

“I always thought Merkel was a great leader, but what she’s done in Germany is insane”.

The video is being rapidly shared on social media and online message boards and has been viewed at least half a million times, having been uploaded to platforms including YouTube and Facebook among others dozens of times.

Although the main thrust of the film is to goad native Europeans against mass migration and the negative effects of multiculturalism, the film also paradoxically takes a swipe at one European minority group who stand to lose almost the most from mass Muslim immigration. It also includes a short clip of discredited, anti-Semitic politician Nick Griffin, former Member of the European Parliament and leader of the British National Party.

The inclusion of Mr. Griffin, an unpopular figure even in Britain’s nationalist right and the rapid success of the film in the Netherlands suggests the film may not have been edited by a British citizen.

Breitbart London has reported at length on the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe which has arrived with mass migration. From Jews being specifically targeted for degrading house-invasion rape-thefts to Jews being excluded from Holocaust commemorations because of Muslim attendees hijacking events, migrant-Europe is now hostile towards Jews at a level not seen in decades.

Below the video on YouTube, uploaded on Monday by anonymous user Death of Nations, the editor warns: “This video will not be online long, download and mirror it while you can”.

“At current immigration levels and disappearing birth rates native Europeans are destined to become a minority in their own countries within decades. This is already the case for many of Europe’s largest cities.”

“Millions of young Muslim men leave behind their family, pay thousands to criminal traffickers to reach the land they have been promised by European politicians illegally.

Dubbed by the media as “refugees”, they cross through 6-10 safe countries to reach wealthy nations like Germany or Sweden where they hope to receive a better life at the expense of the taxpayer.

Only a fraction of them are Syrian, as they enter unfiltered, without any documents and without any legitimate right to claim asylum. Women and children are rarely seen, except in the cherry-picked sob stories of the media”.

At the end of the lengthy call to arms, the writer concludes:

“We are still at a point where you will not get imprisoned for your political opinion in most European countries, but this will change very soon. Do not be apathetic, do not be weak. Be someone that can be proud to call himself European”.

 

[Be Well]

Slovenia putting up fence along border with Croatia to control migrant flow

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/slovenia-prepares-erect-fence-control-migrants-065632711.html

Reuters Marja Novak | Reuters – 43 minutes ago

Reuters/Reuters - Slovenian soldiers work on a wire fence in the village of Veliki Obrez, Slovenia, November 11, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

By Marja Novak
LJUBLJANA/VELIKI OBREZ, Slovenia (Reuters) - Slovenia began erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its border with Croatia on Wednesday, saying it wanted better control over a tide of migrants flowing through the tiny country en route to other areas of Europe.

The continent is grappling with its biggest influx of migrants - more than one million are expected this year - since World War Two and is deeply split over how best to respond. European Union leaders were to hold a special summit in Malta later on Wednesday to try to iron out their differences.

Around 180,000 people, many fleeing war in Syria and Afghanistan, have streamed into Slovenia since mid-October after trekking northwards along a Balkan corridor from Greece, most of them bound ultimately for Austria and then Germany.

Slovenian army trucks loaded with wire fencing arrived in Veliki Obrez, a village on the southeastern border with Croatia, early on Wednesday. By 1400 GMT, over 1 km (mile) of wire had been strung up, a Reuters photographer there reported.

"The barriers do not have the purpose of preventing arrivals to Slovenia or significantly reducing them... Their purpose is to direct the flow of migrants to controlled entrance points," Bostjan Sefic, state secretary at the Slovenian Interior Ministry, told a news conference.

He said that a total of 1.5 km (0.9 mile) of fence had so far been erected along two locations on the border but declined to reveal how many more kilometers would be fenced off.

The main point of disagreement in the EU is over mandatory national quotas to share out asylum seeking refugees and migrants among the 28 member states.

Hungary, whose anti-immigrant government shut its border to arriving migrants in October, as well as the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia deeply oppose the quotas.

Slovenia is facing more pressing logistical concerns. Prime Minister Miro Cerar said on Tuesday that the ex-Yugoslav republic, the smallest on the migrant route, lacked the resources to shelter large numbers over the harsh winter if Austria closed its border as well.

Slovenia's boundary with Croatia will remain open, Cerar said, but the fence will prevent migrants entering the country at uncontrolled points along the frontier.
Croatians on their side of the border were doubtful.

“When a large number of people start pushing they are like a swollen river, and I don't think this (fencing) can stop them,” said Zeljko Poljak, a resident of the village of Vukovo Selo.

THOUSANDS MORE WAITING IN SERBIA

Slovenian soldiers also erected several 100 meters (yards) of wire fencing in an open field near the border village of Gibina in eastern Slovenia, a Reuters cameraman there said.

No migrants were present at either of the two places, but large numbers of soldiers and police were there, some guarding construction equipment.

Croatia, like Slovenia an EU member but outside the bloc's Schengen zone of passport-free travel, on Wednesday said Slovenia's move was unnecessary and a waste of money.

"It would be better if they built reception centers, similarly to what we did," Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic told reporters. "No wire can stop people to find their way and it is better to make their way organized."

Slovenia said this week it was not going to build any long term reception centers.
Croatian police sources said later on Wednesday that Croatia asked Slovenia to dismantle part of the Slovenian fence because it went through Croatian territory. Slovenia's interior ministry had no immediate comment.

Although Slovenia and Croatia both declared independence in 1991 from then-federal Yugoslavia, some sections of their common 670-kilometer (415-mile) border between the two states remains undefined.

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said more than 3,000 people were waiting to enter a refugee camp at Presevo in southern Serbia, from where they would probably make their way north to Croatia and then Slovenia like tens of thousands before them.
Another 3,000 people were expected to enter Serbia from Macedonia on Wednesday, and 9,000 arrived a day earlier, a UNHCR field officer in Presevo said.

About 175 policemen from other EU states have come to Slovenia to bolster local security forces struggling with migrant crowds. Another 100 are expected in the next two weeks.

(Reporting by Antonio Bronic, Sasa Kavic and Marja Novak in Slovenia, Igor Ilic in Zagreb and Ivana Sekularac in Belgrade; Writing by Marja Novak; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

 

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Hungary Against Taking Even a ‘Single Syrian’ from Germany

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...inst-taking-even-a-single-syrian-from-germany

Zoltan Simon November 11, 2015 — 12:18 AM PST


Germany shouldn’t send back refugees to the their first point-of-entry in the European Union based on the bloc’s Dublin accord, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, according to an interview with MTI news service.

“The Dublin system is dead since apart from a few exceptions, countries aren’t abiding by its terms,” Szijjarto said on Wednesday, according to MTI. “Not a single Syrian” should be returned from western Europe to Hungary, he said.

Hungary has built a razor-wire fence along its southern border to keep refugees out and has been the staunchest critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy to welcome an estimated million migrants this year, mostly refugees from Syria.

 

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EU flag burned as tens of thousands join Warsaw nationalist demo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...f-thousands-join-Warsaw-nationalist-demo.html

Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of Poland's independence after the Second World War

By AFP 5:02PM GMT 11 Nov 2015

Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday for a demonstration organised by the far right, marching under the slogan "Poland for the Polish" and burning an EU flag.

Demonstrators watch an European Union flag burning during the annual march commemorating Poland's National Independence Day Photo: AFP


Police said 25,000 people joined the march, which marked the anniversary of Poland's return to independence after the Second World War, while organisers put the numbers at 50,000.

"God, honour, homeland," chanted the protesters as they marched under a sea of red-and-white Polish flags.

Demonstrators trampled and burned a European Union flag at one point, while a banner added to the anti-EU theme with the slogan "EU macht frei" ("Work makes you free" in German), a reference to the slogan over the gates at Auschwitz.
"Yesterday it was Moscow, today it's Brussels which takes away our freedom," chanted one group of protesters.

Other banners read "Great Catholic Poland" and "Stop Islamisation".

Several thousand riot police officers were deployed for the protest, which was punctuated by numerous firecrackers and smoke bombs but otherwise went off peacefully.

The annual march, organised by Poland's nationalist right, has seen clashes in previous years.

"I came here because I love Poland and want to show it," said 27-year-old Piotr, who came with his fiancee. He added: "I came here for my grandfather, who fought in the Warsaw Uprising (against the Nazi occupation of the Polish capital), and for his father, who fought for independence".

Poland is returning to conservative rule after eight years of centrist government, following the Law and Justice (PiS) party's landslide election victory last month on a platform playing strongly on fears over the European migrant crisis.

Demonstrators wave Polish flags during the annual march commemorates Poland's National Independence Day in Warsaw Photo: AFP