Posted on 08/18/2015 6:45:44 PM PDT by Lorianne
Chancellor Angela Merkel today condemned a surge in German attacks on refugee shelters and warned that the issue of asylum could become a bigger challenge for the European Union than the Greek debt crisis.
Asked about more than 200 arson attacks against homes for asylum-seekers seen in Germany this year as the country faces a record influx of refugees, Merkel said: "That is unworthy of our country."
Merkel warned that waves of refugees would "preoccupy Europe much, much more than the issue of Greece and the stability of the euro".
"The issue of asylum could be the next major European project, in which we show whether we are really able to take joint action," she told ZDF public television.
For Germany, where some officials have said the number of asylum-seekers could top 600,000 this year, Merkel said the issue posed particular challenges.
With thousands of refugees sleeping in tents and authorities saying they are overwhelmed with applications, Merkel said the current situation was "absolutely unsatisfactory".
She called for the European Union to establish a list of safe countries of origin, where citizens are not under threat of violence or persecution.
Last week Germany's interior minister said it was "unacceptable" that 40 percent of asylum-seekers in his country were from the Balkans, calling it "an embarrassment for Europe".
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Somebody else gets it.
Angela, you ain’t the only one with problems...
Maybe europe shuld stop taking them in. They have no right to be accepted.
You tink russia and china and india and brazil are taking in millions a year?
“The Camp of the Saints” should be required reading for all Europeans... and Americans as well.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Camp-Saints-Jean-Raspail/dp/1881780074/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
Trumps helping around the world already???
These are not unrelated issues. The "migrants" are disproportionately parasites, living on welfare while contributing nothing positive to the countries they have invaded. Uncontrolled migrants are adding to the debt crisis.
Oh look.
The frog is hopping out of the pot.
You either have a country or you don’t.
Send them all to the USA, we’ll take them all no questions asked.
Is that you, 0bama?
Another day in the EU! Bring them in and let them run wild!
Open borders + welfare state = bankruptcy
ditto
They’re not “migrants.” They’re freeloaders.
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