We need Turkey to help solve migrant crisis

Bavaria’s governor is pressing Chancellor Angela Merkel to complain to her Austrian counterpart about an uncoordinated flow of migrants toward Germany’s border. “We can and must not treat each other this way”, Seehofer said in an interview with the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, it’s much worse, it’s so bad that even Bavaria couldn’t have predicted it”. “First of all through negotiations, so Turkey will continue to cooperate with the European Union and take a part of the illegal migration flows”. That being said, if Turkey’s entry is predicated primarily on this trade-off I’d be alarmed if other things were overlooked by the EU. As gun possession of all kinds is illegal, or so impractical as to be almost impossible, you’re going to see Europeans going “all in”, smuggling in fully automatic weapons, as we’re already seeing in England.

Other European countries such as Spain and Portugal are also suffering from low birthrates exacerbated by the emigration of hundreds of thousands of countrymen since the euro crisis hit in 2010.

Aid agencies have said they are extremely concerned about the welfare of refugees arriving in Slovenia from Croatia, who are ill-equipped to deal with the increasingly cold weather.

The Interior Ministry says the family will be released because there’s no reason anymore for their detention. Monday’s figure was the highest since September 30.

Spanish lifeguards help refugees to climb a cliff after their arrival on a dinghy from a Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Sunday, October 25, 2015.

“The rising number of asylum seekers to Germany has been met with anti-migrant protests and a few incidents of violent expressions of right-wing sentiment”. But the plan has run into opposition from Ms. Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, who fear such zones would be impractical and politically indefensible.

However, Germany was keen to reinforce its own “excellent relations” with the mainland, said Michael Clauss, the German ambassador to China.

He said Germany and Europe needed to fundamentally change their immigration policy or “we won’t be able to do this”. “We have reached the limit of our capacity”.

A daily influx of thousands of beleaguered refugees – including many children and elderly people – has put a massive strain on the health care capacities of tiny Slovenia.

The amount each person receives also increases depending on the country they are returning to, with those going to Egypt, Ghana, Lebanon and Eritrea receiving €300, while those going back to Iraq or Afghanistan get up to €700 per person.

As long as we can’t defend Europe’s outer borders, it is not worth talking about how many people we can take in…

Germany expects at least 800,000 migrants this year, nearly 1 percent of its population.