Juncker blames 'arrogant' refugees for re-housing policy failure (EU)

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: The Telegraph

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, on Friday blamed “arrogant” refugees for the failure of his policy to rehouse tens of thousands of migrants across the continent.

Mr Juncker rounded on national governments and migrants themselves for the collapse of an EU policy that was intended to relieve the burden of the migrant crisis by spreading 160,000 people around the bloc in a series of airlifts.

It has moved 272 people, including four to Lithuania and six to Belgium. Just 17 out of 28 EU states have volunteered any places.

Diplomats are angered because they warned – and it has proven to be the case – that the scheme could not work because of migrants’ resolute determination to reach only Germany and have no wish to be sent to the poorer east.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/12102472/Juncker-blames-arrogant-refugees-for-re-housing-policy-failure.html

[thereismore]

1. If I were running away from war, I would be grateful to be settled anywhere in Europe. nt

[NobodyHere]

17. Many just want a better economic situation

[thereismore]

18. That's it. They want stuff and make it difficult for legitimate asylum seekers to get it.

They are also biting the hand that feeds them, in some cases.

[leftynyc]

2. Scratching my head

You would think any country offering them a life outside of a war zone would lead them to be just a bit grateful. I would offer them a place and if they turn it down, fuck it. Holy shit, when my relatives were fleeing Russia they didn't demand NY put them up on the Upper East Side - they lived where they could afford to live (as it happens, the lower east side). Then they learned English, went to school and got jobs. Am I supposed to be expecting something else from these refugees?

[840high]

3. Good point.

[Elmergantry]

4. Your scratching your head

because your assumption is incorrect. They are "economic" migrants who are seeking the country with the best freebies---and that is in Germany.

[leftynyc]

8. If that's the case

fuck them sideways.

[Dems to Win]

5. Cologne attacks ‘nail in the coffin’ of EU refugee policy

Cologne attacks ‘nail in the coffin’ of EU refugee policy

http://www.politico.eu/article/cologne-attacks-nail-in-the-coffin-of-eu-refugee-policy-sexual-assault-hauptbahnhof/

The EU’s refugee policy is a failure and the mass sexual assaults in Cologne were a “nail in the coffin,” senior officials said Thursday.

In a bleak meeting with MEPs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the top EU official in charge of migration, said a plan to relocate 160,000 refugees across Europe “does not work.” He added that if member countries “act on the pressure of the domestic agenda, it will fail.”

“I agree that it [the relocation program] has not delivered the expected results,” the migration commissioner said, adding that the scheme “can only give results when it will start working.”

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Although Avramopoulos said he was “not very optimistic” about the future, he warned that the Schengen passport-free area must be protected. “If it collapses it will be the beginning of the end of the European project,” he said. “If borders are closed, the economy will be at stake.”

Germany, and the entire EU, is in a hella bad situation.

[christx30]

6. And that bad situation German is in

is self imposed by it's leader. Merkel is really screwing up.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. It sounds like he's blaming the victims for his own failings

If a program that is supposed to move tens of thousands of refugees only moves a couple of hundred, then it sounds more like an organizational failure. I understand that most of the refugees wanted to go to Germany and that Germany could not handle that many, but did he try to give the refugees any say in the matter at all? Were the refugees asked about a second or third choice destination? Was there any communication here?

[christx30]

10. By law, once you get to a safe place,

you go where you are offered. You have three choices. Go where they place you, go back the camp, or go back to the warzone.
Refugees are wearing out their welcome in Germany. And there isn't much space left, or tolerance from the native population.
Beggars can't be choosers.

[branford]

11. Actual refugees to not get a choice of destination.

The belief by certain migrants and their supporters that such a choice exists in international or domestic laws is one of the primary reasons why any attempts to relieve the migrant mess is failing miserably in Europe.

Refugees, no less economic migrants, demand to be resettled in Germany, Sweden or other more generous social welfare countries may ultimately result in virtually all actual refugees, no matter how deserving, left to rot in war zones or squalid camps for the foreseeable future, or worse, the collapse of the Schengen Zone and the rise of the far right throughout Europe.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

16. I wish I could recommend your message.

nt

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

9. Look at the accompanying photograph

Where are the women and children?

This is a mass invasion of mostly migrants looking to move up in the world. They arrive wearing nice clothes and carry cell phones.

And I think Germany is expecting another million + this year.

Gees

There's a lot of Brits very thankful for the English Channel, right now, and truck drivers going through Calais say they fear for their safety. sigh This is a mess.

[christx30]

12. Back in October

There were a lot of stories on DU about these people trying to get through the Chunnel illegally. They were hiding in trucks, armed with knives.
That stuff is probably still going on.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

14. Going on daily, I'm afraid.

nt

[trillion]

13. Does anybody here watch DemocracyNow.org?

I'm getting a whole different story from them.

Let's think about Europe, or any country for a moment - every single county has an extreme right wing that can't stand refugees and are all out racists to Muslims.

What makes you think Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission isn't a right winger? If you've followed DemocracyNow.org you would have already been introduced to people in the European Union who are right wing and racist and left wing and wanting to help the refugres. In fact most have leaned far right. They don't want to spend a dime on the refugees.

I'll stick with democracynow.org because they've gone into the camps to interview refugees and they've interviewed the people helping and the people against refuges.

I'm breaking my promise to myself by posting or even coming to this site because of the Mulsim blanket statements that seem to prevail here.

Please check out other progressive sites. They would only improve this one.

DemocracyNow.org has a daily news world report that is highly regarded in countries all over the world. I mean it's clear nobody here has ever watched it or a lot of what is being said here would have whole different angles and honestly, people would be better informed. I mean there are people here who just learned "thug" is a racist word now-a-days and are mad that anyone would accept it as one. They're 2.5 - 3.5 years behind. Just saying.

Okay, bye.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

15. The people in the camps are not the people

invading Europe. The people in the camps are legitimate war refugees, and deserving of help. I'm glad we will take in families from the camps here in the U.S. I recently listened to a program on BBC, and the situation in the camps is getting dire.

Europe shot itself in the foot when it let this invasion of mostly men, mostly economic migrants cross their borders. They're stuck with them, now.