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Another German Final Solution

"We fundamentally reject illegal migration. We also reject allowing smuggling gangs to decide who will live in Europe."
"We reject quotas and I am surprised that this issue has once again returned to the negotiating table."
"I hope that the new European Commission will put a stop to this."
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš

"The V4's [Visegrád Four: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia] position is clear. We are not willing to admit any illegal migrants into central Europe. The success and security of central Europe is thanks to our pursuit of a firm anti-migration policy, and this will endure."
"This is why central Europe is one of the most successful regions of the European Union today, and its engine of growth. We do not tolerate any kind of pressure and we Hungarians insist on our right to decide whom to allow into our country and with whom we wish to live." 
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó

At a refu­gee camp north of Athens, families seeking asylum live in makeshift housing, with tarps thrown over plywood. (Myrto Papadopoulos for The Washington Post)

Members of the European Union notwithstanding, countries of Eastern and Central Europe have repeatedly refused to absorb their allocated 'share' of illegal migrants and refugees that have inundated Europe for the past few years. They have stated time and again that they will not surrender their territory, their culture, their heritage, their rule of law to the presence of people they have not themselves selected to become part of their society, mostly based on the future welfare of their own countries.

It is no secret that migrants reaching out for economic opportunities or to escape the ravages of conflict and oppression, repression and poverty often hail from societies and religious backgrounds that make them unfit for transition to European values, laws and social life. In very most particular refugees hailing from countries where Islam has a monopoly on peoples' lives find it difficult to adjust to religion playing a minor role in peoples' lives.

And it is increasingly understood, given the experience of countries such as Belgium, France and Great Britain that once a certain weight in the influx of immigrants reaches a critical point, Islamic values, not commensurate with the values and priorities of the West, of democratic states, or of European heritage, become an issue with the insistence by established Muslim groups that they be given equal status to prevailing values in the society of their adopted countries; integration of Muslims is never assured into the indigenous culture.

Germany, having historically indulged in a murderous genocidal spree that led to the slaughter of six million European Jews in a program to rid the world of a sub-human pestilence, now has absorbed six million Muslims as immigrants, refugees and migrants, and has done so willingly. That this move has proven to imperil the status of German Jews returned to live in harmony and trust with fellow citizens appears to have occurred to German authorities as an unfortunate afterthought.

German authorities, if not the German public as a whole, remain committed to absorbing migrants and illegal entrants to Europe. That doing so only encourages others from Africa, the Middle East and West Asia to continue making the perilous journey to Europe, afflicts Italy and Greece with unwelcome numbers flooding their nations. Germany has always, as one of the most influential members of the European Union, insisted that other EU countries must accept a fair quota of illegal migrants.

Central and Eastern European countries have resisted that order, however, and it is hardly likely they will reverse their well-considered decision not to accede to the EU demand. Now, German Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer has a new plan meant to reform the asylum system in Europe a draft of which has been leaked, indicating that all EU member states will -- if the plan is accepted, and all indications of the past events indicate it will -- be expected and required to absorb illegal migrants.

A sea rescue operation near Lesbos on Nov. 27. Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Mandatory relocations do not sit well with certain countries who note that the unilateral imposition of migrant quotas has the effect of overriding decisions made by dissenting countries' governments. Unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are telling governments of EU states what and how they must respond to EU initiatives. The entire and continuing debate over migration has hit a sore note, leading to the questioning of European federalism, much less the degree to which the EU feels it can be justified in usurping powers in decision-making from 28 member-countries.

The plan to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is meant to be presented to the new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels where she is expected to reveal her own migration proposals in February 2020, preceding Germany's six-month European Council presidency in July2020. It looks as though the impending presidency role has already gone to Mr. Seehofer's head with his intention to once again cause an uproar in the European Union, tangling with countries which have no wish to emulate Germany in embracing illegal migrants.

An armed Libyan coast guardsman stands on a boat after the interception of 147 migrants attempting to reach Europe near the coastal town of Zawiyah on June 27, 2017. TAHA JAWASHI/AFP via Getty Images

Labels: European Union, Germany, Illegal Migrants, Visegrad 4

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, December 07, 2019