German minister pushes plan for new EU refugee system

Well first, because the “pull factor” for refugees and economic migrants from North Africa and the Mid-East is now super-charged by German statements and sentiments it is incumbent on Germany to properly register all the migrants who are now being funnelled to them from their eastern European neighbours. “This should involve more safe and legal routes into Europe for refugees and moving towards a truly Common European Asylum system, by providing mutual recognition of asylum decisions, together with greater freedom of movement for recognized refugees“, said John Dalhuisen. Figures for those seeking asylum from Kosovo showed a dramatic drop. Give us your thoughts on this situation and whether you believe Europe is as far from ever handling the crisis.

In total, Syrians represented the main citizenship of asylum seekers in 10 European Union countries.

With waves of asylum seekers showing no signs of easing, European nations that had been friendly to refugees abruptly rolled back their welcome mats Thursday, as Germany considered radically slashing its benefits and Croatia warned migrants to turn back.

A girl looks out of a window as she sits in a bus which will transport migrants and refugees to a camp, after they were registered by authorities in Brezice, Slovenia Monday, September 21, 2015.

The debate over the migration crisis has also exposed deep-seated divisions about the relationship between national sovereignty and shared responsibility that lie at the heart of the EU. In the meanwhile, Hungary is building 175 km fence on its border with Serbia.

“It is not realistic to assume that Europe will itself be to cope with this by itself without the help of the United States”, the German chancellor told MPs from her party, according to the N1 website.

As political and military solutions to the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan are nowhere in sight, the refugee crisis in Europe is not going to disappear in a hurry.

The Japanese investment bank Mizuho was one of the first to put a number on it yesterday, saying that accepting up to one million refugees a year over the next two years could cost Berlin €25 billion euros. “I feel an allergy to coercion”, their summit chairman Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, said last week. Stay there, it’s risky to come.

The new barriers for the refugees come as Turkish state media said Friday that the body of a four-year-old Syrian girl’s body washed up on a beach, just weeks after the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed ashore, the image of which captured global headlines.

As Europe’s leaders gather on Wednesday for an emergency summit on the worst refugee crisis since the second world war, it may seem as if the disarray is a good reason for Britain to leave the European Union. It has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.