Germany Supports France In Fight Against Terrorism

European countries can not accept any more refugees, the French prime minister has been quoted as saying.

“Europe must say that it can no longer accommodate so many migrants, it is not possible”, he said in extracts from a lunch with foreign media published by Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung.

German officials say winning parliamentary approval for the new military steps should not be hard given United Nations resolutions on Syria and France’s invocation of the European Union’s mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks.

“Controlling the European Union’s external borders is essential to the future of the EU”, he added. “It was not France that said ‘Come!”, the French prime minister said in an apparent reference to Germany’s decision to open its borders to refugees last September.

But despite Valls’ strong stance on refugees, Merkel vowed on Wednesday to continue pursuing the open-door asylum policy, despite the unprecedented security risk evident after the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.

ISIS “can’t be convinced with words, it must be fought with military means”, Merkel said.

The move is followed by a visit of Merkel to Paris on Wednesday.

“The focus, if not obsession, with the eurozone crisis has given us the impression that Germany is the superpower in the European integration process”, said Christophe Hillion, professor of European law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

“We want to fight together against terrorism”.

The planned participation of the German Air Force in military operations against Islamic State terrorists in Syria is risky but encouraging amid other coalition member experience, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Friday.

She also reiterated her stance that Europe must take on the crisis in a peaceful manner by giving refugees salvation away from their war-stricken homelands. The vote came as Hollande and German Chanellor Angela Merkel discussed how to combat the group that has spread its violence beyond Syria to Europe and North Africa.

Police figures released in Germany on Monday revealed that the federal state already took in 180,000 refugees in November.

For Merkel, Germany’s refugee influx, predicted to reach one million people this year, has become the biggest challenge of her chancellorship as she marked 10 years in office over the weekend.