Posted on 03/27/2017 9:41:32 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Greece will cease taking back refugees under the controversial Dublin Regulation, as the country’s limited capacities to host people are already on the brink of collapse, the Greek migration minister announced in an interview.
“Greece is already shouldering a heavy burden,” Ioannis Mouzalas, the migration minister, said.
“We accommodate 60,000 refugees... and it would be a mistake to make Greece’s burden heavier by the revival of the Dublin agreement,” he said, also adding that Germany, the primary destination for most refugees, “wants countries where refugees arrive first to bear a large portion of the burden.”
Asked if Athens is ruling out implementation of the Dublin Regulation, Mouzalas answered in the affirmative, adding, “I want the Germans to understand that this is not because of political or ideological reasons, or failure to appreciate Germany’s assistance.”
“Greece simply has no capacities to cope with additional arrival of refugees,” he said. “We’ve just pulled ourselves together, so please, don’t make us falter again.”
At this stage, Mouzalas said, Greece is ready to accommodate only a small number of refugees as a symbolic gesture, showing “that we’re not opposed to the Dublin agreement.” Greece “reached its limits” and “we can’t bring in a single refugee,” he reaffirmed, appealing “to the common sense of Europe.”
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Common sense? eu?
There is no common sense left in Europe. They are convinced that the way to prop up the declining birth rate is to import millions of Muslims.
Those fools actually think (maybe) that they can assimilate those Muslims. I have a word for what they are but I can’t use it. Too simian.
When do German troops arrive to occupy Greece?
Should have built walls, or at least high fences as Hungary did. There is no nation in the world who can take care of such an invasion of its territory by the poorest people on the planet.
Last one out of the Middle East is a rotten egg!
Invasion as a civil right
Everything that rises must fall. We here have known the West has been living a lie for the past 100 years. Sucks it has to be on our watch, but what are ya gonna do?
1400 years of history says that Muslims ALWAYS destroy the culture they invade. They never assimilate.
Greece is appealing to the common sense of Europe?
Oh boy.
Reality is a good, but hard, teacher.
Refugee 60,001 just needs to find a sympathetic US Federal Judge to order Greece to take him in. :)
“Refugees” leave northern African countries in overloaded inflatable rafts which would be unlikely to make it to European shores. They get picked up by Soros sponsored ships and taken to Europe. It’s almost unbelievable, but nothing is unbelievable any more.
It has been a great 100 years in many ways, also.
What’s wrong with the picture? A bankrupt country bows to international pressure and takes 10s of thousands of refugees from terrorist countries.
Whoa. Aren’t Limits bigoted?
They are convinced that the way to prop up the declining birth rate is to import millions of Muslims.
The stupidity of the left knows no boundaries...Oh well, I guess we need to fill the country with anybody. It won’t matter that they want to cut our throats and build mosques...
You ain't seen nothing yet.
I've read that 200 million will need to leave Africa by 2050 or starve to death.
Twenty million Africans are starving presently.
Oh Greece,you surely have made a mistake, ALMOST as big a mistake as the Germans will, when they probably Re-Elect Angela Merkle in Septemeber.
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