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Europe Has Completely Lost It
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
After the high-level EU summit on the migrant issue, hastily convened after close to a thousand people drowned last weekend off the Lybian coast, Dutch PM Mark Rutte was quoted by ‘his’ domestic press as saying ‘Our first priority is saving human lives’. That sounds commendable, and it also sounds just like what everybody knows everybody else wants to hear. One can be forgiven, therefore, for thinking that it’s somewhat unfortunate that the one person tasked by Brussels with executing the noble ‘saving lives’ strategy, doesn’t seem to entirely agree with Rutte:
EU Borders Chief Says Saving Migrants’ Lives ‘Shouldn’t Be Priority’ For Patrols
The head of the EU border agency has said that saving migrants’ lives in the Mediterranean should not be the priority for the maritime patrols he is in charge of, despite the clamour for a more humane response from Europe following the deaths of an estimated 800 people at sea at the weekend. On the eve of an emergency EU summit on the immigration crisis, Fabrice Leggeri, the head of Frontex, flatly dismissed turning the Triton border patrol mission off the coast of Italy into a search and rescue operation.
He also voiced strong doubts about new EU pledges to tackle human traffickers and their vessels in Libya. “Triton cannot be a search-and-rescue operation. I mean, in our operational plan, we cannot have provisions for proactive search-and-rescue action. This is not in Frontex’s mandate, and this is in my understanding not in the mandate of the European Union,” Leggeri told the Guardian.
To refresh your memory, the Triton border patrol mission took the place late last year of Italy’s Mare Nostrum mission, which ended in October 2014. For good measure, the budget was slashed from the €9.5 million per month Italy had been putting in, to €2.9 million per month. Saving lives can be simply too expensive when you think about it in your high rise office in that brand new €1 billion+ EU building. These are hard economic times, and we all need to make sacrifices and to cut costs wherever we can.
But of course after that summit, Europe announced it was going to triple the budget for the Triton mission. That will of course only simply bring back the budget to where it already was before it was cut by two-thirds, but it’s a nice headline anyway.
The difference in focus between Rutte and Frontex head Leggeri can be found all around Europe. It would be nonsense to claim Europe agrees on much of anything regarding the refugee issue. Well, they agree it’s a nuisance that all these people die and Europe is supposed to do something. The national government leaders would like it much better if such things didn’t happen, it’s bad publicity. But at the same time, it’s nothing that can’t be spun and turned to their advantage. Or so they like to think.
Reactions to the statements released after the summit were not all positive, to say the least. Amnesty said that the only thing Europe tries to save is its face. Former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt, at present a member of the European Parliament, indicated that the equipment Frontex has at its disposal (one helicopter, two ships and seven planes) wouldn’t even be enough to survey the Belgian coast (of which there’s not a lot).
Just to make sure his peers wouldn’t think he’d gone all soft, Rutte came with another catchy oneliner: “Last time I checked, Lybia was in Africa, not Europe.” In other words, ‘saving lives’ is a great press quote, but don’t blame him for lives lost. And that’s the crux behind the shift from Italy’s mission to the EU’s. The former was patrolling off the coast of Lybia, while the latter occupies itself only with the European coastline, and it just so happens that’s not where refugees’ lives are under threat (let’s stop saying migrants, that’s a grossly misleading term).
In its infinite wisdom, the EU has decided in its summit that there will be 5000 ‘resettlement’ places available for the hundreds of thousands of refugees (migrants) that want to go to Europe. The EU in a post-summit statement said it expects 150,000 refugees this year, but it might as well add up to 500,000 in 2015 alone. How Brussels thinks it’s going to send back almost half a million people is a big question mark. So much so we’d put our money on no-one having properly thought it over.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, millions of refugees are making their way to the Mediterranean from trouble spots across Africa. To put it in somewhat cynical economic terms, think of this as pent-up demand. And also don’t forget how Patrick Boyle framed it: “We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them.”
The typical story of the refugees is one in which it takes years to get from their mostly sub-Saharan homes to the Lybian coast, working odd jobs on the way. Once they get to Lybia, which has been shot to bits by western forces, they’re dependent on all sorts of militia, who often arrest them, take their money etc. Perhaps the most insulting thing to come out of Brussels is the comparison with Somali pirates, and the argument that the refugee stream should be dealt with in the same way.
Indeed, much of the European ‘leadership’ have emphasized one approach more than any other: send in the military, start shooting. The idea being that if the boats of the traffickers are destroyed, everything will return to ‘normal’. But the issue here is not the traffickers, it’s the refugees. Want to send in the military against them too?
If there’s anything good that can come from the deeply deplorable death of far too many poor sods in the Meditteranean, it’s that it shows us all once more, as if we needed further confirmation, what a dysfunctional entity – morally as well as practically – the European Union is. More than anything, the EU makes itself entirely irrelevant. There is no decision structure in Brussels, since there is no ultimate responsibility that has been assigned. And they all sort of like it that way for now, because it means everyone can deflect that responsibility if and when necessary.
From the first example above that should be very clear: Rutte says the first priority should be saving lives, but the man who leads the organization that is tasked with executing it, flatly denies that.
Greek news organization Kathimerini ran a piece this week that serves to add yet another level of cold cynicism. Lest we forget, it’s Europe’s poorest countries that are forced to deal with the brunt of the refugee problem. In that summit we mentioned before, half of all European nations refused to take up even one single refugee. Yet another example of the absolute lack of coherence and solidarity that so-called union exhibits.
The idea seems to be: Let ‘em all stay in Greece, while we suffocate the nation financially. But Greece cannot solve the issue all by itself, it can’t handle the expected 100,000 refugees on its own. It will be forced to open its borders and tell the refugees to try and reach Germany or France. See also: Open Letter From Greece on the Mediterranean Migrants Issue.
The present EU policy is that a refugee must stay in the country where (s)he has been registered. Hence, all Greece and Italy need to do is not register them. Kathimerini:
The Dubious Politics Of Fortress Europe
In “Border Merchants: Europe’s New Architecture of Surveillance” (published by Potamos), Apostolis Fotiadis, an Athens-based freelance investigative journalist, seeks to document a paradigm shift in Europe’s immigration policy away from search and rescue operations to all-out deterrence. The switch, the 36-year-old author argues, plays into the hands of the continent’s defense industry and is being facilitated by the not-so-transparent Brussels officialdom. “Their solution to the immigration problem is that of constant management because this increases their ability to exploit it as a market. The defense industry would much rather see the protracted management of the problem than a final solution,” Fotiadis said in a recent interview with Kathimerini English Edition.
“Without a crisis there would be no need for emergency measures, no need for states to upgrade their surveillance and security systems,” he said. Fotiadis claims the trend is facilitated by the revolving door between defense industry executives and the Brussels institutions, which means that conflict of interests is built right into EU policy. “There is a certain habitat in which many people represent the institutions and at the same time express a philosophy about the common good,” he said.
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Fotiadis believes there is no reason Greece should not be able to set up some basic infrastructure to deal with the influx. He says that the number of immigrants and refugees received by the EU is in fact small compared to the more than 1.5 million refugees who have found shelter in Turkey due to civil war in Syria. Jordan is estimated to be home to over 1 million Syrian refugees, while one in every four people in Lebanon is a refugee. Meanwhile, the EU, one of the wealthiest regions of the world, with a combined population of over 500 million, last year took in less than 280,000 people. “All that hysteria is a knee-jerk overreaction to an illusory version of reality,” he said.
Why Greece or any other country would wish, be eager even, to be part of the EU is becoming ever harder to comprehend. The moral values prevalent in Brussels, whether it comes to EU policies regarding Ukraine, Greece or the refugees’ dilemma, don’t seem to be shared in any individual European nation (if anything, they’re reminiscent of what various extreme right wing parties espouse).
And as the Greek negotiations with the eurogroup and the ‘institutions’ show us with intense and increasing clarity, the notion of the euro being a boat to lift all tides turns out to be full-on bogus. Southern Europe’s nations will be either thrown out or allowed to stay only as debt servants. For now, Germany and Holland prefer to keep everyone on board, but that may still change. It would therefore seem like a good idea for Greece and Italy to make their moves while they can.
In order to achieve that, however, they must convince their people that staying in the EU, and in the eurozone, is a bad choice. And since their old-time political establishments will continue to deny this (because the EU allowed them to sit fat and pretty), that will not be an easy task. Perhaps the refugee issue can help.
In all likelihood, the victims of the sunken boat near the Lybian coast this weekend will never be identified, except for perhaps a handful. Nobody knows who they are, and those who do stayed behind a thousand miles or more away. These deceased people, most of whom will never even be buried ashore, define, in one fell swoop, the ‘new’ price of a human life. Theirs, yours, and everyone else’s.
Sinking nameless to the bottom of the sea, with no-one either ever knowing who you are or aware of how you are doing. That is our new valuation of a human being. It’s price discovery in its most cynical sense, it’s how assets get re-priced in markets.
What Tsipras and Varoufakis must accomplish is to make people understand that what Europe does to the refugees, it will do to its own citizens too.
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Europe, get ready for war!
Lesson: Allow your system to go Socialist and it will soon have to turn Fascist.
Unfortunately all roads lead to the same destination with all these diffrent economic models.
You could also say:
Lesson: Allow your system to go crony capitalist (socialism for the corporatocracy) and it will soon have to turn authoritarian capitalism.
Also, immigration wise the US lost it's mind years ago. If this was the USA, they would just shoot the mexicans/South Americans. I'm sure you could dig up some interesting quotes from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Rutte says the first priority should be saving lives,
OK... How about spending some of that EU fiat on dropping leaflets all over North Africa telling the sheeple to stay home or drown because the EU cannot afford them so it won’t rescue them.
Change the mindset of the “refugee”.
No, the REAL lesson is...
"If you can't or won't control who comes to your House Party, that has lots of food, drink and music, you soon won't have a House left, by the time the Party is over."
Likewise... if you leave food and dinner debris (crumbs, etc) out after dinner, and leave them out all night, and keep doing this over and over, expect your house to be infested with all sorts of bugs and creepy crawlies. Likewise, if I don't tend my garden, pretty soon all sorts of weed take hold and eventually take over.
The corrupted version of Christianity is the perfect Useful Tool ("turn the other cheek, and help unconditionally"), with which to destroy a prosperous nation from within, as it allows the entrance and growth of non-productive, non-assimilating Invasive Species.
All hail the Zio Sayanim like Barbara Lerner Specter! http://www.whyileftsweden.com/?p=198
civil war.
“Last time I checked, Lybia was in Africa, not Europe.”
Libya might be in Africa, but I am not sure where Lybia is.....
Hmm, Chicks dig it when you lick their Lybia! :>D
Immigration is the bankerz tool. when the local population refuses to roll over and submit to moar regulation and taxation, the gates drop and the immigrants are brought in to help vote to complete the asset stripping of the natives.
So it is Europe's problem. Where is it written that North Africa is absolved of responsibility? Oh right, that Libya thing... Way to go NATO.
NATO!
NATO!!
NATO!!!
I'll stop now. Drones and such.
Edit: For the record, I have no intention of ever committing suicide. If I am ever found to have killed myself it was the US Government or their hired hands. In that event, kill them all. Slowly. Since I'd be dead in such a scenario I suggest the old Libyan practice of sawing them in half starting at the genitals and working northwards.
Edit el duce!: BEER!
dude that image is grotesque!
And it is merely a rated-G visual representation of the concentrated evil inside. Imagine the real deal!
an outward reflection perhaps of his true inner self?
Well, just lost about half a cup of coffee from this image. lolololololololol
I gave you a red for the nightmares induced.
DIESSELBLOOM ........HITLER of our times ...
Nah, Hitler had a lot more compassion.
you probably right ... that explains the red arrows...
Enjoy your shit-storm, Greece. You 'earned' it!
Hard to take anyone seriously when they can't even spell LIBYA properly. On the plus side, at least you didn't spell it Labia like a lot of American "journalists".
Well, Libya's been fscked like labia, so the mistake is understandable!
In other news, America's semen invaded Lybia's labia.
Edit: Stop drinking alradye.
Greece has been so involved in itself now it is going to spin it needs FREE euros for a massive humanitarian effort for refugees.
Showing once again, anything is fair game as long as it gets money it never has to repay.
If Jeb Bush’s son, George P. Bush, had married Chelsea Clinton, Americans could have spared themselves the spectacle of Election 2016 and saved billions of dollars.
All that the USA needs now is for a young Clinton to pair up with a junior Bush. Should the union produce an heir, a single line of monarchy would be established.
That heir could save the world.
It's not only €urope that's f#cked.
Gee that would be great. Where is Lady Gaga with a strapon pounding Kim's ass when you need it?
Edit: Oh, that's not a strapon. My apologies.
They already treat US citizens like Al-Queda. First Cheney helps Bandar take down the World Trade Centers then Congress gives him half a billion dollars to build FEMA camps.
All dicks disapprove this message.
Cheney does too.
It's really hard to take this article seriously when the author can't even spell Libya correctly.
And now, I see that Whippet beat me to it.
he doesn't know a Mitterand from a Krugerrand, let alone how to spell Mediterranean:
"the deeply deplorable death of far too many poor sods in the Meditteranean"
As usual, the nanny state creates a crisis and is expected to come to the rescue.
Give everyone an acre of land, and leave them alone.
More farms, less technology.
Problem solved.
But, where is the fun in that?
Well, for starters, you cannot support a family of three on less than 3 acres in the northern hemisphere unless you have some magical way of heating your home AND growing your own food.
PS - You were great in 1991.
"That is our new valuation of a human being."
Seems to be our problem the World over - and right here in River City.
Excellent analysis. But
assumes that political leaders actually care what happens to their citizens. To some degree I am sure they do. But most of all politicians care about staying in power. Would the Syriza politicians really want to deal with a messy Grexit and loss of popularity all because in the long run it will be for the "good of the people"? I doubt it.
What the pundits fail totally to see is that today's illegal migrant crisis is not THE crisis, it is merely the tip of the crisis exposing, manifesting, itself as several thousands of migrants putting to sea on crap boats seeking to make the crossing to the European Welfare State. Italian military intelligence has long ago warned it's government that there are nearly 1,000,000 migrants at or near the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and Middle East Turkish borders. They intend to cross to Europe as soon as smugglers can be found to take them to sea, or across Turkish border areas. When questioned, all migrants want to get to Greece, Italy, Spain or one of their islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Further questioning revealed nearly every one had the following countries as their choice of new homeland. The United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, France. See a pattern here!? That's right, they are headed for the richest states and those with the greatest social welfare benefit schemes. Plus, they have a "one toe policy". Meaning if your toe can touch their soil, you are guaranteed entry, social services, food, apartments, health care, education, a monthly pay check. And all at public expense.
So we can see why they are coming. Italian intelligence also warned Rome that this was the tip of a growing ocean of illegals migrants building all across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. They predict tens of millions of migrants are preparing to make the move. Questioned in their home countires, a significant portion wanted to move to Europe. Others wanted to go to USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But these require a large ocean crossing the migrants can not afford. Many millions from SE Asia have their sights set on living in Australia.
These moves are mainly made by young single men. Look at videos and pictures of migrants on these boats, Some are women and children. But most are young single males.
What started as a few thousand migrants is going to grow into millions. In Europe prepared? NO, they will not even acknowledge that there is a problem. Meanwhile, the millions is these shit house countries are watching TV and serfing the Net, here they see the golden life of Europe and the Americans. Do you think they will just sit in their mud huts and accept this, or get on the move to a good life, and one tax payer funded.
European leaders are insane and criminal European liberals and pro immigration leftists are even more insane. I say, house 5 illegal immigrants in the home of every politician, liberal, leftist, pro immigration clergy, let them live with five males from Pakistan or Iraq, all between 19-25, how would they support immgration if they had to house these fuckers? No, they want taxpayers to fund the immigrants, so they can feel good about helping the poor migrants. We owe them so much, don't we. White Guilt runs deep in European education system, where the brainwashing begins.
If you knew a new ice was on the way.
And the only habitable areas of the planet were currently occupied.
What would your strategy be?
they all got copies of this 1970's book ...read it ...and said, "Wow that sounds like a plan"
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Saints-Jean-Raspail/dp/1881780074/ref=sr_1_1?...
Jack that was soime of the most eloquent primal poo flinging I have seen here, bravo, your tribe is lucky to have you. Hey, are those berries? Oh, lookout! A competing tribe there in the trees, possibly looking to live, poo flinging formations lads!... oh wait it is a deer.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
Curious how there was no Libyan immigration crisis while Qadaffi was alive, idn't it?
Okay, enough blah blah about Europee'ing whatevercicile. How can we get to Russia and live there? I am willing to live in the wilderness and be a self sufficient trapper/hunter/gatherererererererer. Seriously, will Russia accept Americans who don't want to play modern games?
Yeah, thought not.
Jack, I dont agree with many things that you say regarding Ukraine, but I am totally with you on this one. Libtards for some reason want to let everyone into Europe. Maybe it is time to get rid of that thing we call "border control" and let everyone in? Human rights an all, who cares about the natives and our living standards going down even more, all these people require housing, food, medical care...who will pay for it all?
Some of these "refugees" in a few years will be out protesting against "Islamophobia" and what not.
Europe has not lost it, and those are not refugees. They are the planned replacements, first for the Greek people, then for all the ancestral nations of Europe.
Greece is the banksters' biggest open lab experiment since the Soviet Union. Her death warrant has been signed, and the banksters plan to use her as best they possibly can before finishing her off.
The experiment in making New Socialist Men out of Europeans was a total failure. The goal now is to see if replacing Europe's proles with less intelligent and rebellious breeds of humanity will make socialism any more viable. If a Saudi prince wants to drink himself stone blind while on holiday in the islands, a nigger can mix the drinks as easily as a Greek.
Cutting off the supply of niggers washing up on Europe's shores would be easy. Bring old man Smallpox out of retirement and let him bring the population of sub-Saharan Africa back to a manageable size. In the meantime fire ONE warning shot over the bow of any boat found in Mare Nostrum without good reason to be there. If it doesn't immediately do a 180, send it to the bottom of the sea, no exceptions.
Warning, I'm drunk... sish.
WTF are you on about? This isn't about replacing Greeks with African "niggers" because they are cheaper. It's about replacing anyone who isn't down with the "government" having every last word. The poorer the better. The more desperate the better. The less educated the better. This means you don't have to be black to suffice. Latino or Asian will suffice thank you very much. I forgot what I was driving at. Have a good day.
These EU meetings are less about saving refugees lives and more focussed on counter terrorism to prevent the infiltration of radical islamists. The threat must be masked and made palitable to the sympathetic sheep.
If Europe is such a moral disaster and irrelevant entinty why is the whole of Africa and Asia trying to come here. We´ll be happy if they stay in their morally pure and highly important countries and leave us alone. Win-win, everyone happy.
Have you not been reading?? This is about refugees and illegal immigrants being treated better than citizens and taxpayers.
blow away them.
WHO is "them?"
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire
FU.
Blow away the people who brought this crisis about. Can't think of who they are? They are probably the same ones you voted for who then bombed Libya and promoted change in Egypt. You suck nuts.
As I said a few days ago the Traitors of the Europaen Union are responsible for the immigration disaster . The Italian Government never did anything to discourage this state of affairs . Towing the boats back would have helped a lot and have discouraged the migrants and people who profit from this disaster .They have created an expectaction from the migrants that if they survive the crossing and get picked up by the Italian Coast Guard then they can travel to the Nordic countries where the Idiots in government will pay for accommodation , health benefits and a living salary .If they stay in Italy similar story , but some migrants will be exploited in the agricultural business and paid miserable salaries . The Zionist agenda is in full swing here in Italy , There are talk shows to which prominent journalists ( they would not be prominent if they were not Jews ) tell the public how good is for the italian economy to accept millions of desperates . The omit to tell the public who is going to pay for the health problems of those people and who pays for their housing .
Regarding the government options on the national debt there is no public discussion at all . This Renzi is just a BLS artist and puppet that takes orders from the USA Embassy and Bruxells . He and his puppets are totally incompetent and unable even to think that Italy can finish up like Greece . He tells the Italians every day that he sees the light at the end of the tunnel.... in the meantime more unemployed people demand help from state agencies and more business closes .
One would almost be led to believe that sea level radar is not effective if ANY of these boats get through.
Hey Chinaman, you listening?! Australia has BS for defense. Have at it.
The morons are taking Gazprom to court for retrospective breech of EU regulations relating to gas distribution. They don't like Russian control of their energy, they would rather have Zionist control.
The conditions from which most of these people are fleeing are lamentable and in many cases created by the instability brought on by US inteference in their homeland.
Be that as it may, nations such as Greece which has both the proximity and the most porous borders due to its numerous islands and lack of patrols, is bearing the brunt of this "invasion."
This may sound callous but a period of toughness is required whereby boats are intercepted and turned back regardless of the consequences. If Europe cannot take a deluge of hundreds of thousands of refugees then its pointless showing compassion by saving these people. The blowback onto the general populace will be both large and ongoing.
I believe Australia has almost brought to a trickle the large illegal flood of refugees with its hard stance.
What part, in the real world of dollars and sense, of what Peter Pan said is not true? Why the downvotes?
Oh, Jamie and Lloyd went red because you didn't say take their deposits first. Got it.
Refugees from Libya?? But we heard that after Arab spring it would all be peachy. So, just like Fukushima (where GE is let off the hook) we are also letting the instigators of Arab spring off the hook and that would be the US
If a country is not prepared to defend its borders, it will not long remain a country.
We are Europe. We have the US Mil! What? Dammit.
In times of Austerity wouldn't it be more prudent to adhere to budgetary constraints and rather than have these ' lepers ' floating around at sea for days/weeks on end causing them all sorts of disease/discomforts , not to mention the significantly greater costs to the jurisdictions for rehabilitation involved here and instead use unmanned drones to sink their rafts at a distance to be determined, between coasts?
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Careful what you wish for.
Droned, drowned, immigrants tell no tales.
"....what Europe does to the refugees, it will do to its own citizens too...."
Raul Meijer on rare occasions has interesting things to say, but this piece is rubbish. He places no value on European peoples.
Precisely what is wrong with the governments in Europe, and of North America is that they make no distinctions between their own citizens and everybody else in the world.
It would have been vastly more humain to refuse entrance to refuges coming across the sea or across the Rio Grande -- and to make to them clear that they would never be received or be allowed to remain. This would stop their efforts to colonize our lands, and force them to deal with their own problems.
Basically, this piece is a typical rant by a certain type of third rate intellectual with a bit of a gift for gab. The formula is simple: high dudgeon packaged in a story line that is incoherent.
Agreed. Raul's understandable hatred of the Euro-Project has blinded him to the obvious. I assume he will set up a cot in his flat for a few Libyan refugees.
I'm sure the unemployed youth of Greece, Spain and Italy cannot wait to compete for scarce jobs with all these "refugees". Meanwhile, the people who fucked up Libya - that would be us - do nothing.
I was waiting for PM Renzi to come right out and ask for US help with the Libyan refugee problem a few weeks ago at his DC press conference. Perhaps he asked Obama in private, but he said nothing in public.
I gave you a green tho the problem isn't as you state. It is that the NATO countries have created this problem and no refuse to deal with it. Wanna bomb Tripoli? Okay fine, deal with the aftermath. Yeah, that mean Italy will have to change it's language. So what?
Yugoslavia's economy was much more integrated and economic standard deviation was less than what the countries in EU have. When opportunity was given to one part of country to advance it's interests it was eagerly taken regardless to price to the other parts . Croats. Serbs and Muslims speak the same language. Even if they all try to deny it, cuisine, music preferences and attitudes are much, much less different than what let's say Germany or Nordic countries have and Greece and Italy. Now, Germans would like to believe that they are beyond comparison to Croats yet here we are discussing Greek demands for WW2 reparations from Germany. UK is complaining about workers from Bulgaria and Poland much more than Slovenia was about workers from Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia. Finland is complaining about financial aid to Greece more than Yugoslav republics were complaining about aid to "undeveloped regions" like Kosovo and Montenegro.
If you today ask average Serbian, Croat or Muslim they will all tell you that having their own country is advantageous to all but a trans-national corporations and probably banks. Perhaps comparison to EU is not perfect but Germany Et Al are already advancing their own interests regardless to price to Greece and possibly some other countries, meaning question for Greece whether staying in EU is bad choice is purely rhetorical because they are ON THEIR OWN ALREADY.
I'm not sure what you said exactly but yeah. I agree with Victoria Nuland in this regard, F*ck the EU.
When Australia was being flooded with illegal immigrants from the ME, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc, all coming in boats launched from Indonesia, the leftist government in power in Australia at the time said nothing could be done about it.
A conservative government was elected and immediately started turning around the boats, towing them back or if the boats were too decrepit for towing, transferring everyone to modern sealed life rafts and towing them back.
Within 9 months the illegal boats had stopped and the people smugglers given up. The smugglees got peeved at paying a lot of money for a round trip back to Indonesia. What the leftists said couldn't be done was done.
Maybe those same people smugglers have now shifted operations to North Africa, since most of them weren't Indonesians but from the ME.
Yes, well. Even were they serious about a solution to the problem, the Fourth Reich don't have a dirt-poor, god-forsaken island where it can house "refugees" for as long as it takes to verify that their claims are bogus (which they almost always are).
Nor are there dirt-poor Asian countries nearby without a land border with the Fourth Reich and willing to take in any real refugees for a small fraction of the cost to taxpayers of feeding, watering and housing them in a civilized country. Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey already have more Syrians than they can stand, never mind the Africans.
Rutte says the first priority should be saving lives, but ...
He's not hired for doing so.
His first priority is to serve(!) Dutch interests and not the interests of EU nazi's
Young European educated people don't have jobs anymore thanks to the EU tyrants ! unemployment is rising 65% and more. So what are these africans comming to do ? Help us of parasiting us ?
Well they will ask asylum which will take ten years.
All that periode we have to feed them, pay their taxes, their clothes, medical care, their pension and house them. Our youngsters who want to start a family have to wait seven years to get a roof above their heads, while africans have privileges and receive a complete furnished house in no time These people are in paradise.
One asylumseekers costs 2000 € per month ! Without their advocates and translators. After ten years this will be 200.000.
And then they will receive social wellfare... And education and language lessons. And they will live and stay here..until they are sixtyseven. Then they will receive their pensions.
Immigrants or refugees. They will never work, they are just not up to par, they will never be educated enough to be productive in a high tech society, they will refuse to speak our language, they terrorise our female youngsters ofwhich they think have too much freedom. They will destroy our society, our culture, our peoples by stealing and by raping. ( 16% of Swedish women being raped ! one on six.)
They are nor refugees, nor immigrants but soldiers.