Security Tightened Across Europe in Response to Paris Attacks

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel (R) and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer arrive to parliamentary faction meeting at the Reichstag buidling, the seat of the lower house of parliament in Berlin, Germany, November 3, 2015. Migrants are now forbidden from claiming the same unemployment benefits as born Danes, and instead can take “integration benefit”, which is only worth half as much a month.

“As you know Australia has made a very significant military commitment to the struggle against Daesh or the so-called Islamic State, and we are working there with the Iraq government and of course with our allies the United States, the UK and others, but ultimately there needs to be a political solution to this absolutely catastrophic situation in Syria”.

Germany’s vice-chancellor has warned against a crackdown on migrants coming to Europe because of the Paris attacks.

Despite steering Europe through its most serious crises over the past year, the challenge of dealing with the biggest migration flow since the Second World War threatens her reign. “Paris changes everything.” His warning came as a Greek official said a Syrian passport was found at the scene of one of the Paris attacks and its owner crossed into the European Union through the Greek island of Leros in October 3. It must re-assert control over its outer borders, create refugee processing centers at entry points, patrol its coasts.

As the investigation continues, a few say the Paris attacks on Friday could fuel long-standing fears that terrorists could pose as Syrian refugees.

Upper Franconia police said in a statement Saturday the unnamed woman confessed after her arrest in a nearby village late Friday.

Four Central European countries say help is needed to enable Balkan countries to handle the influx of refugees.

“But I make the urgent plea, as interior minister and as a responsible politician of this country, that there shouldn’t be any hasty links made to the refugee debate”, he added.

Europe now needs to restore security, stability and confidence. “Conceivable at best is an orderly immigration of between 200,000 and 300,000 people”, Soeder said.

“We’re strengthening our policing stance at the moment across the country”, he said on Saturday. The interior ministry in Munich confirmed the report.

But even Merkel could not ignore the potential security threat, and so she, too, huddled Saturday with her top security officials.

And, with around 10,000 new arrivals each day, a few German federal states are resorting to accommodating them in tents, just as temperatures plummet at the onset of winter.

“Islamic State has weapons and money, refugees have nothing”.

A poll conducted by ZDF showed a narrow majority of Germans thought Merkel was not doing a good job handling the crisis.

Police said the 21-year-old woman was on her way back to a home for asylum-seekers in the town of Bad Belzig, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of Berlin, on Wednesday afternoon when she was attacked by two boys, aged 14 and 15, and a 14-year-old girl, the dpa news agency reported.