Austria and nine Balkan countries have had enough of Angela Merkel’s idiotic refugee plans. The defiant group of ten took matters into their own hands late last week. The countries held a refugee conference and did not invite the chancellor. The countries all restrict the number of refugees they will take. Merkel is furious but there is not a damn thing she can do about it. Curiously, Merkel Faces a Dilemma because Germany is already the beneficiary of Austria’s actions.
The decision by Austria and nine Balkan states to unilaterally choke off the flow of migrants across their borders has prompted fury in Berlin, which fears it could torpedo Chancellor Merkel’s drive for an EU-wide solution to the refugee crisis.
But the new border controls have ironically had one positive effect for Ms Merkel: the number of asylum-seekers crossing the border into Germany has plunged. On Wednesday there were only 140, compared with more than 2,000 a day at the start of last week. German TV showed empty reception centres in the Bavarian town of Passau, near the Austrian border, which has been a key entry point for the hundreds of thousands of new arrivals to Germany.
“Merkel faces a paradox,” the influential journalist Alan Posener wrote in Die Welt. “It’s possible that the naysayers will restrict the influx of refugees to such an extent that the chancellor’s future in Germany will be saved.”
It is not just the substance of Austria’s policy shift that has angered Berlin but the manner in which it is being carried out. The new border clampdown was agreed at a meeting in Vienna of countries along the so-called “West Balkan route” to which Germany was not even invited.
Germany had opposed Vienna’s move last week to enforce a daily cap on the number of refugees it will allow into the country. Berlin believes the decision — to accept only 80 asylum applications a day — is a direct violation of principles agreed by Austria’s chancellor, Werner Faymann, at recent EU summits.
But Vienna went further on Wednesday by agreeing policies with nine Balkan states to restrict the numbers crossing their borders. One key point was a commitment to accept only those migrants deemed to be in need of protection.
Berlin is worried that Austria’s unilateral moves are killing the chances of a European solution Ms Merkel has been painstakingly piecing together in recent months.
Merkel’s Hopeless Plan
Is Merkel really that naive to believe everyone will go along with her “painstakingly pieced together plan”? For starters, numerous nations won’t adopt her share the refugee relocation program. Next, bribing Turkey is downright foolish.
I applaud the action by Austria and the group of ten. The idea to only take refugees in need of protection is exactly what the policy should have been all along.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Refugees and migrants are still turning up in Greece, which would make them an EU problem while they cannot be returned (cannot close a sea border and Turkey has no obligation to accept forced return). Wait in a camp in Turkey or EU ( Greece to start) – which offers most hope?
The only solution apart housing refugees in Greece until they may return ( to Syria… you understand the region is littered with permanent refugee camps from different conflicts) is to arrange with Turkey.
You will note that Merkel’s stance at one point on returning refugees to Syria eventually is an insult. Not only is she assuming she is patron to the region, but refugees do dissapear, even in Germany, which has so far ‘ lost track’ of over a hundred thousand.
Germans and other Europeans are buying “long” guns which for the most part are legal.
They know what is coming. I’ve known what is coming for 50 years. Now you all are getting a glimpse. It will be ugly (if you are pro multi-cultural) but it will be “finally” if you respect a nation, it’s people and it’s culture.
Syrians, Arabs, Africans, Asians, etc have no business out side their own homelands. Visit, yes, invade……..buy long guns.
I’m looking forward to it! In fact, I would love to volunteer on the side of the Nationalist forces. Lots of scores to be settled.
“Syrians, Arabs, Africans, Asians, etc have no business out side their own homelands. Visit, yes, invade……..buy long guns.”
Yes, as the Europeans had no business and the Americans had for that matter invading and depopulating an entire continent in North America and parts of South Asia and China?
Or Vietnam, Korea about 60 years ago?
IMPEACH Merkel and Obama asap … !!!!!
Merkel = Obama = QUISLING … !!!!!!
So far, the Syrian ceasefire is holding up. Should this continue, the refugees who are from Syria can soon be sent home to start rebuilding. The young men will be subject to Syria’s military conscription laws but a lot of other countries still practice this form of slavery so they won’t be any worse off than young Russians or Israelis.
Until there is a political settlement no-one is going anywhere. A political settlement is a long way off, and may for example simply be an eventual acceptance of Syrian regime rule over most of the country. Do you imagine any refugee from regions against the regime returning to Syria in that circumstance? Do you think they will be welcomed back? I don’t. Merkel is going to arrange their return with Assad? !
Any other solution is equally fraught for a variety of reasons. Refugees will return where the Syrian regime, ISIS and similar no longer are considered a threat, depending on their own loyalties, and as well the alternative options that are available, such as several years of messing around to gain full residence in EU being a prime opportunity. To me that looks like a long stalemate for most of the refugees, where the reasonable option remains EU. At worst they will be sent home if the country is ever made safe for them.
They should all be sent “home”. A temporary refuge (which is what they had in Turkey, but chose to travel to where the most benefits were given (Germany, Sweden, etc.) is all that should be given. Once things are stabilized in Syria (and, no, that doesn’t mean that they can stay just because they don’t like Assad), they should all be sent back.
Other countries have borders. They keep out who they don’t want. I am not saying try to integrate migrants, a camp would do… might be there a long time though, whether in Turkey or EU.
This is what happens when you upset the quo of other countries, politicians know this, particularly in EU whose history is one of migrant flows.
Actually, people the world over will do ANYTHING to live in White areas. These non-Whites will never return. Would you rather live in Germany or Iran? Would you rather live in France of Algeria.
These failed nations, (African, Arab and Asian) are exporting their populations to the First World since we Whites create a better society. They now it. We don’t. We won’t protect our culture, history, language, community. Because of this, war is coming. Not refugee, or political nor cultural nor religious war. But the simplest and most violent of all. Tribal War.
Henry Kissinger’s recent book, World Order, (Chapter 2 specifically) helps put the European conundrum in its thousands of years historical perspective.
Murkle wishes to receive the Nobel Peace Prize next year — having missed out this year — and become an Ambassador to the United Nations when she is forced to resign. She is a Marxist, so the cultural Marxism she practises is true to form. More fools the German voters who kept her in office for the last two elections.
There has been a war against the German people since 1945.
The great aspect of this is that individual states in the EU are exercising some sovereignty in deciding for themselves how many migrants to let in, even though the EC in Brussels, Merkel, and the Schengen Agreement may say otherwise. Norway has announced a plan to block the flow of migrants from Sweden “when Sweden collapses under the flow of migrants”.
Merkel has been refusing to acknowledge that her “everybody is welcome” statements are ill-advised while trying to arrange some pan-EU policy of refugee acceptance quotas so that other EU leaders will be stuck to share the blame for the mess, and at the same time Merkel has been trying to get Erdogan of Turkey to block the refugee flow in exchange of Billions of Euros and a promise of quick admission to the EU. Erdogan has been playing Merkel like she is a fool, using the refugee flood threat.
The recently-released evidence that Erdogan has been supporting ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and profiting from oil stolen and shipped by ISIS, would seem to be unsettling to other EU leaders when dealing with the issue of admitting Turkey to the EU, particularly after ISIS has threatened to stage terrorist attacks in the EU.
Al Tinfoil – yeah, sovereignty is rearing its necessary head. Thank goodness for that!
Hi Mish, IMO Turkey is the key to all of this. For example see this movie made about 1 month ago. Normal street in Istanbul and what we can see… https://youtu.be/-tMi0vgsgDk?t=16m44s (watch from 16:44)
Replace welfare with zero minimum wage and tax free manufacturing zones. Herd illegal invaders into concentration camps. Do not feed the animals. Deport after they lose some weight.
You know what is happening and what is coming. Good for you.
How will poor Merkel explain this to her overseers? She must feel like the witch in OZ who got a bucket of water dumped on her.
This may mean that the global rulers send Merkel to the political shower room and bring in a newly groomed NWO puppet to gain back the respect of the EU partners.
Merkel has become a laughing stock and no longer brings values to the overall mission. Her time has run out.
Global unification and the transfer of wealth is a priority and nothing must stand in it’s way.
Now bring in the clowns!
Germany now unified is a large country not like those wishing to control the flow of refugees. Greece is having a ball accepting the refugees and shipping them North as refugees do not get squat in Greece. I know it is a problem for Greece but part of the government’s plan was to get more money which really is not coming to Greece.
Even the Germans have had enough of the refugee crisis. Oldtimer the clowns are already in office my friend but you did make me laugh Salute!!!
Was going to say the same about the clowns.
Once registered in EU refugees and most migrants have no great fear of expulsion. Bulgaria is another staging post, poorer than Greece though.
If you have followed the means that have worked in the Mediterranean , they are few and all require the full participation of the country from which the migrant travels. The flow of refugees from Morocco, for example, relies on hot repatriation at a patrolled razor wire fence system for the Spanish enclaves, or a new radar system that allows Moroccan patrols to intercept launches before they reach Spain. Bi-latteral agreements on the direct return of migrants to their own nation also works. No other method seems to.
IOW without Syria accepting return of refugees, or without Turkey offering full cooperation, there is not likely to be any meaningful slowdown in refugee and migrant arrivals. I suppose that eventually all who wish to enter will have, and the flow will reduce due to that primarily, back to the steady background movement few notice much.
Bulgaria is doing it’s job and has fenced their border and they have heat cameras so people can not just march through Bulgaria.
That is why everybody has been going through Macedonia because bulgaria actually controls their border.
This was even asked by a reporter in Macedonian border from an asylum seeker trying to reach western europe “Why don’t you go through bulgaria?” answer: “You can’t get through there, there is a fence and heat cameras and the police arrests you”.
People who get into Bulgaria despite fences and heat cameras are stopped by police inside bulgaria and they are given as their only choices as returning to their home country or claiming asylum (and since Bulgaria gives NOTHING just like Greece most do not want to claim Asylum)
If Macedonia closed it’s borders and other Greeces neighbors would be vigilant the rush to Greece would stop because the only reason they come to greece is to get through to western europe.
I have read that Bulgaria is much stricter at the border , and harsher on those arriving . However it is fully documented as a staging post on the journey north – one article I read explained that migrants will wait until registered there , and then head straight off north by any available route . Hence over a two month period , for example , ten thousand of the fifteen thousand registered there in that period , soon turned up in Germany . Bulgaria rightly feels it may be overwhelmed if for any reason there is a surge towards its territory.
Either way , the main point is that migrants are set on heading north , and I think that only being returned to outside of EU will put them off . You know some will try many times to enter , it is only if they know they will be returned that they might stop.
The migrants can cross the borders, butt only in the outgoing direction
Excellent. This “Merkel” is anti German, anti White and is promoting the destruction of Europe. Why? Someone needs to look into her background and find out about her racists, anti-White hatred and why she wants the extermination of the German people. Why?
Merkel is a childless woman whose ego was stroked by the fact that the “refugees” she let into Germany called her Mama Merkel and she might have genuinely thought she was helping and just wanted to be a good person and help and stay in history as a person who helped so many people.
Her whole childhood and most of her adulthood was spent in East-Germany and I’m sure she was brainwashed by the East-German communist system quite profoundly so I’m sure that also has some effects in her thinking.
Also there was a famous exhange where she met a young palestinian girl who came as a refugee to germany and she wanted all her relatives to also join her in germany and asked Merkel about this and Merkel said that this is impossible because so many people want to come and she started crying uncontrollably and merkel also had tears in her eyes.
This meeting which was publicized in germany happened before Merkel’s most crazy decisions so to me she is making decisions only based on feelings.
The media-blockade of most of the crimes committed by asylum seekers was still in place last autumn when there were insane scenes of people waving “refugees welcome” placards in all german train stations and welcoming train after train of mostly 20-30-year old men from iraq, afganistan, somalia, pakistan, morocco, ethiopia, iran, eritrea syria etc.
This media-blockade was finally burst by the mass harrasments in Cologne and brutal rapes and gang rapes in several EU countries and the murders in sweden by somalis and eritreans of swedish people.
The continual repeat-repeat-repeat of images of drowned children especially drowned Aylan by the media and non-stop reporting of the horrors in Syria in autumn 2015 also fooled the public to think that it was syrians and children coming when in fact syrians are the minority and as found out many “syrians” just bought a faked passport in Turkey like the two paris attackers.
Right now Macedonia is only letting through Syrians and iraqis and they are finally checking their papers and not letting anybody through who does not have those passports and hopefully also checking that the passports are not fake.
They should also stop letting iraqis through because there are large safe areas in southern iraq for shiites and most of Baghdad, a city of 8 million people, is safe for sunnis and and iraqi kurdis have their own area in the north which is secure so all iraqis should move inside iraq to secure areas if their particular home area is restless but of course free apartments and free money and family re-unifications on welfare have a strong pull factor.
Macedonia is stopping afghans completely who have no case for asylum because Kabul and surrounding areas are SAFE but still 50%-70% of Afghans have been getting asylum in western EU-countries based on their stories of “persecution” despite the fact that the possibility of internal flight should always lead to denial of asylum application according to international treaties so they have been coming but Macedonia stopped that so hopefully they start stopping iraqis too.
Even Syrians were completely SAFE when they reached Turkey and in there they can get a tent, food and water so the only reason to try to get to Greece is that they know that Sweden and Germany give syrians 100% acceptance to refugee-status so they are GUARANTEED to get free EVERYTHING for the rest of their lives if they reach sweden or Germany.
These “refugees” from iraq/afganistan/somalia/eritrea etc. know that by telling a good story of “persecution” they get a free apartment for life and free money for life and family re-unification straight to welfare so of course they will have a really tragic sob story to tell.
If for me the option was to work really hard in iraq/afganistan/somalia and earn 100-200 euro a month or travel to Germany or sweden or other western european welfare countries and get free apartment, free money of 500-1000 euro per month and my family with me through family re-unification straight to welfare then of course I would also choose to be a “refugee” if the bureaucrats were incompetent like they are currently in most of western europe and would give all this with the granting of refugee-status which they would give to me after one interview in which they wrote down my story/lies/fairytale of “persecution” and then decide based on the written report that yes he is a refugee.
EU-incompetence also shows in that there is an EU-directive which DEMANDS that each asylum seeker gets their decision in 6 months and since there is huge rush of people coming the bureaucrats have NO time to fact check anything because they are demanded to follow this EU-directive in processing times so they make the decision only on based of the story the asylum seekers tells.
Even if they had time the possibility to get real facts from origin countries is about 0% but if they had more time they should at least have several interviews and try to catch the liars but for now it is just 1 interview that decides if asylum seekers get free EVERYTHING for the rest of their lives for them and their soon to be family re-unified family.
There are facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of members that spread the info on what kind of a story one needs to tell to be get asylum by either being declared a refugee by a bureaucrat or getting subsidiary protection by a bureaucrat when the sob story is not quite sobby enough and in these facebook groups they compare info on which countries are the most lax/incompetent in their process and in which countries it’s best to seek asylum for which nationality because iraqis get it easier in some countries and afganistanis in some others and somalis in some others.
Syrians get 100% approval in Sweden and Merkel also promised 100% approval in Germany.
EU attempts to “solve” the issue have just made it worse because the only reason people want to go from Turkey to Greece is that they can travel from greece to western european welfare states (because greece has given them a boat ride to mainland greece and free passage to macedonian border and also macedonia, serbia, slovenia etc. have previously let them all through towards welfare-EU) and if EU tries to solve this by doing burden sharing where they spread the asylum seekers from Greece to europe then they get the same thing they previously got by Greece letting them through and the latest EU-solution of hotspots in greece where their applications are processed and those getting refugee status are spread around europe then they also get the same thing as previously namely access to welfare-EU so they will keep coming with these EU “solutions” and some will keep drowning.
If Greeces neighbor countries SHUT their borders towards Greece completely the asylum seekers would stop coming because Greece itself gives NOTHING and the only reason they want to go to Greece is that through greece you could reach welfare countries in western europe.
Latest EU-crazy-idea is picking 450 000 people from Turkey and spread them around europe which would multiply the rush towards Turkey so Turkey is in fact stupid to accept EU to take asylum seekers from Turkey and spread them around europe.
If Macedonia COMPLETELY closes their border with Greece they have saved whole of Europe and stopped the rush towards Greece and therefore stopped the drownings so hopefully Merkel will be sidelined completely and all those countries agree to completely close borders from all asylum seekers which are all in this situation economic refugees.
Best way would be for people to wait in Turkey and then go home (syrians) OR go to their countries safe areas to live (iraqis, afganistanis, somalis) OR stay in the army for a few years (eritreans) or stay in their safe countries (pakistan, india, morocco and rest of africa)
Everything you say is significant, but being a REALIST, the only way to stop this madness, and coming extreme violent tribal warfare, is a WHITE ONLY Europe.
Sorry to sound like a raicst pig ( I AM a racist pig) but if we all don’t understand and accept that we ALL are talking monkeys, we allow a situation that will result in racial/tribal civil war.
I, and many realist, know the violence is coming and will not be shocked. You will.
You can chose to understand the natural concept of “racism” or you will be forced to observe massive violence. Take your pick. As for me, I am NO fool and know reality….what is coming will not shock nor surprise me. It is why my wife, son, and daughter have been trained in how to handle weapons. This is not MY fault. It is the fault of you un-natural fools.
EU is becoming a social dictatorship based on a technical manual so disconnected from reality that it does not even have channels of responsibility that are visible , let alone accessible .
States have subscribed to this handbook that is thrown to them and like a nouveau riche they set about applying it to their people as if they were academically mounting a piece of furniture that has no picture or description of what it is supposed to be when finished .
Idiocy , pure and very very simple , for which the citizenry will pay dearly for – maybe it makes them feel momentarily superior to be doing so , but the main part of the bill is still due , and they know it now.
It is NOT a matter of skin color.
It is a matter of insane ideas in the heads of insane european politicians that bringing millions of young men from muslim countries (is a good idea) who have completely different view of the world than europeans and low education and do not know the language and have major cultural hangups and twisted concept of sexulity completely at odds with western concept somehow can be managed while the facts show they stay largely unemployed, commit more violent crimes and sex crimes based on statistics than locals, fare poorly also in second generation and stay largely out of regular life because the western governements give free apartments and free money etc. for everybody creating passivity.
The asylum process has turned into a joke and it should be completely overhauled but the politicians will do this only if there is pressure to fix their mistakes.
There are theories out there , on the web . They range from cultural Marxism , to her Jewish background , early political affiliations and so on . From my viewpoint she is a person placed in a position of influence , of power , and she will be presenting the wishes of her power base , wherever that originates , as direction .
I went to court once , and a friend was present as witness on my behalf . A decision was to be made that would affect numerous people indefinitely , permanently .
‘ Don’t worry ‘ says my friend kindly ‘ they are just people , like everyone else ‘
Through my mind raced , though I did not say it :
‘That is exactly what I should be afraid of’ .
There is no reason ‘Why?’ that is worth understanding , there is only ‘Because!’ for us to try to grapple with.
Power dictates and it is protected by force.
If you don’t ‘get it’ then that is your problem , even if you know it lacks reason , even if it has approached you and you wish to have no part of it .
Such is life.
Would be nice to be able to edit here …
‘ Don’t worry ‘ says my friend kindly IN REFERENCE TO THE JUDGE AND COURT ‘ they are just people , like everyone else ‘ .
Merkel is either purposely trying to destroy Germany and by extension Europe or she is suffering from dementia. Luckily for the EU, other countries are not going along with her crazy ideas.
In other words, screw Greece ,a fellow EU member, turning it into a concentration camp instead of trying to unsuccessfully bribe Turkey to crack down on their traffickers and pushing hard for a resolution of the criminally enabling, by the US led coalition, fiasco in Syria.EU, a great every country for itself failed experiment.
Greece offers NOTHING to asylum seekers and accepted refugees get only permit to stay and everything the refugee wants has to be earned by working and there is 50% youth unemployment among ordinary greeks already so NOBODY would risk their life to go from Turkey to Greece if the only pull factor Greece has namely possibility to reach western european welfare countries would be taken completely away and borders CLOSED by Macedonia and rest of greeces neighbors.
Turkey offers tents, food and water so NOBODY has an actual valid reason to escape from Turkey to Greece and they only do this to get to western europe.
Syrians should wait in Turkey for the situation in Syria to get better and iraqis, afghans and somalis should move inside their own countries to SAFE areas.
“Austria and Nine Balkan Countries Effectively Tell Merkel Go to Hell”
When does globalism collapse?
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Germans need to line up Merkel and put slugs into her fugly mug. Thank God she did not produce children. Destroying a beautiful country and treason is a capital offense right?