Tuesday - April 12, 2011

just what europe needs right now. more muz. refugees/immigrants

No big surprise that the refugees from Tunisia are flooding Italy, and very soon now other places in Europe. And especially worrying, the UK.
And apparently Germany is very worried and is tightening border controls.
Italy looks to be opening the flood gates to a refugee tsunami, and the Germans are not best pleased.

Some politicians (German) are understandably concerned while a Catholic spokesman for the church stupidly can not see the difference between the refugees at the end of WW2, and this latest flood of humanity (?) that will eventually turn Europe into another ‘dark continent.’ And possibly a muslim one at that.

Berlusconi really surprises me with his liberal attitude on the subject.  Saying that however, I do understand the Italian problem.  The island the darkies are over running, now total more of them (think in terms of an ant swarm) then actual natives (Italian) who live there. And the natives have demanded immediate action be taken to relieve the problem.

If the govt. empties the island quickly, they leave space for even more unsuitable sub-species invasion. 

H/T Deutsche Welle and Europe News

Germany tells Italy to ‘solve its own problems’ in Tunisian refugee row

Boatloads of migrants continue to arrive on Lampedusa

German officials have raised the possibility of reinstating border controls after Italy said it would provide thousands of Tunisian refugees with temporary travel visas allowing them to enter many European countries.

Germany sharply rebuked Italy over the weekend over its decision to grant thousands of Tunisian economic migrants temporary travel visas, allowing them to leave Italy for other European countries in the border-free Schengen Area.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the Monday edition of newspaper Welt that Italy had to “regulate its own problems” and not force them on other countries.

Together with Cyprus and Malta, which have also been inundated by the recent wave of North African migrants fleeing instability in the region, Italy wants to activate a clause in EU law dating back to 2001 that would see the refugee burden shared among the EU member states.

As it stands, refugees must remain in the European country of their arrival while their claims for asylum are being processed. Some 25,000 North African refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, located between Sicily and Tunisia, since the start of this year.

But Friedrich argued against using the clause, which he said was originally created to accommodate the influx of migrants in the wake of conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Border control threat

Hans-Peter Friedrich wants Italy to accommodate the thousands of refugees
Meanwhile, the interior minister of the southern German state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, has said border controls on the German-Austrian border could be reinstated in a last-ditch effort to prevent the migrants from entering Germany.

In an interview with newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Herrmann called on Italy to get its house in order without resorting to issuing temporary visas.

“We will not accept that the Italian government simply declares that the Tunisian migrants are tourists and uses this to push them into other countries,” he said.

Herrmann conceded that the move would impact relations between Italy and Germany, and called for a common EU stance on economic migration.

“They must be sent back to their homelands,” Herrmann added.

Boris Rhein, Herrmann’s counterpart in the neighboring state of Hesse, told Welt that if Italy went ahead with issuing the temporary visas, “it would be necessary to consider whether the [visa-free travel] Schengen Area should be temporarily abolished in Germany.”

Germany admonished

Berlusconi wants EU countries to help with the refugee burden
As German politicians criticized Rome over its refugee policy, a top official with the Catholic Church has slammed Germany’s refusal to take in some of the thousands of Tunisian migrants currently in Italy.

“I’m astonished by the position of closure adopted by my country,” German-born Cardinal Walter Kasper said in an interview with Turin-based daily La Stampa on Sunday.

“I grew up in a Germany destroyed by the [Second World] War, but which still knew how to welcome masses of displaced persons and to give a home to entire populations who were fleeing from misery and despair,” the 78-year-old Kasper said.

Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi commented this week when visiting Lampedusa that the refugee crisis was akin to a “human tsunami” and called on the EU for assistance.

“Either Europe is something real and concrete, or it is nothing,” Berlusconi said. “If the latter is the case, it would be better if we all went out own ways and each determined our own politics and allowed selfishness to follow.”

DEUTSCHE WEELE

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