Refugee Crisis: EU splits exposed at emergency summit

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Refugee crisis: EU splits exposed at emergency summit – as it happened

Summary
We’re going to pause the blog for now, so here’s the latest summary:

• Croatia has accused Serbia of colluding with Hungary over sending refugees to the Croatian border as it reported that 51,000 people had crossed its border since Hungary sealed its frontier with Serbia. Hungary says it is prepared to set up refugee corridors from Croatia to Hungary.
• Croatia has banned Serbian citizens and cars from entering the country after Serbia banned Croatian cargo traffic in a growing dispute over migrants. Serbia compared Croatian border restrictions imposed overnight to racial laws enforced by a Nazi puppet state in Croatia during World War Two
• Hungary reported a new record number of migrants after accepting busloads of people from Croatia. The Hungarian police said 10,046 people arrived in Hungary on Wednesday, beating the previous record set a day a before it sealed its border with Serbia. Hungary announced it could join Slovakia in mounting a legal challenge to the EU’s refugee quota system.
• An EU emergency summit failed to come up with common policies amid signs leaders were unable to contain and manage the migration emergency. It decided little but to throw money at aid agencies and transit countries hosting millions of Syrian refugees and to step up the identification and finger-printing of refugees in Italy and Greece by November.
• Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council who chaired the summit, warned: “The greatest tide of refugees and migrants is yet to come.” In a barb directed at Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, Tusk added: “We need to correct our policy of open doors and windows.”
• The UN’s refugee agency voiced alarm at the EU’s failure to agree on ways of offering asylum seekers legal protection. It said: “UNHCR is disappointed that, notwithstanding relocation, no further measures have been proposed to create more legal pathways for refugees to reach safety in Europe.”
• Hungary expressed frustration at the failure of the summit to agree a policy of protecting Europe’s borders. Spokeskman, Zoltan Kovacs, spokesman for the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, said: “Until you close the doors and windows you can’t cope with the consequences of any kind of draught.”
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel further underlined divisions in Europe by saying the disputed plan to relocate 120,000 refugees can only be the first step and that much more needs to be done.European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans has warned that failure to tackle the migration crisis will lead to a surge of right-wing extremism.
• A young man believed to be from Africa has been hit by a freight train and killed near the Channel tunnel entrance in Calais. The incident took place at around 2am on Thursday, local authorities said, adding that the victim was thought to be from Eritrea or Sudan. He is thought to have been possibly aged under 18.

 

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@DEAD7 maybe Europe should start shooting them down as they approach right?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

@DEAD7 maybe Europe should start shooting them down as they approach right?

meanwhile australia ain't taking ANYONE

 

[CHL]

@DEAD7 care to explain this discrepancy?

I support open borders.

Not what you were saying on the podcast

 

[DEAD7]

@DEAD7 care to explain this discrepancy?



Not what you were saying on the podcast

I support open borders, along with abolishing/reforming the nanny state.
If your going to have a govt. that takes care of people the way ours does, obviously you cant let the world in...



My point on the cast was if it doesn't make sense(economically) for a nation to take in these migrants, i don't blame them for not doing so. I dont feel any nation is obligated to aid these people.
For example, Greece turning away migrants and Germany accepting them makes perfect sense to me, and i dont think Greece should be condemned for doing so. Its a math problem, not an emotional one.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I support open borders, along with abolishing/reforming the nanny state.
If your going to have a govt. that takes care of people the way ours does, obviously you cant let the world in...



My point on the cast was if it doesn't make sense(economically) for a nation to take in these migrants, i don't blame them for not doing so. I dont feel any nation is obligated to aid these people.
For example, Greece turning away migrants and Germany accepting them makes perfect sense to me, and i dont think Greece should be condemned for doing so. Its a math problem, not an emotional one.

Open Borders? Nah fam