Hollande urges Germany to do more in IS fight

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls suggested, in comments published by several European newspapers on Wednesday, that Europe should stop letting in so many refugees.

“If we don’t do that, the people will say: “Enough of Europe”, Valls warned.

Merkel and Hollande also discussed border controls, as two of the suicide bombers at the Stade de France had travelled into Europe through Greece.

Refugees, Syria’s civil war, Libya’s dissolution, rumblings from Russian Federation, terrorism in Paris and a red alert in Brussels put hard power back atop the European agenda, burying the notion of the economically bold but militarily shy Germany as Europe’s unchallenged leader.

“Let him turn himself in for his parents, for justice, for the families of victims, so that we can find out what happened”, Mohamed Abdeslam said.

Eastern Europe and the Balkans are in full revolt against the policies of Germany, while some of the larger European Union countries like Austria, France, and Italy are gradually tightening border restrictions, trying to separate genuine refugees from the economic opportunists.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Berlin will do more to fight ISIL.

The US president said the problem Washington faced was “Russia’s focus on propping up Assad rather than focusing on Isil”, using another name for the Islamic State group.

French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday urged Germany to do more in the fight against Islamic State jihadists after he held talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel following the Paris attacks.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron speaks with a vendor at a Christmas market at La Defense business district, outside Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. Critics said Germany could not continue to accept refugees at the same rate as in the past.

Germany has already signalled that it will send up to 650 additional soldiers to Mali to provide relief to the French and raise the number of army trainers for Kurdish peshmerga fighters operating in northern Iraq by up to 150. “Nevertheless, terrorism must be fought with all possible force”, said Mrs Merkel.

Europe is grappling with its worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Germany is receiving up to 7,000 people daily, accepted 180,000 people in November alone and is on course to crack the million ceiling – the previous annual forecast – by the end of the week.

Merkel wants a multi-pronged solution to the crisis, centred on working with other European Union countries and Turkey.

Many asylum seekers destroy their passports upon arrival in their destination country, one of the reasons why Germany has been able to deport only about 30 per cent of those rejected.