European Efforts to Stem Migrant Tide Sow Chaos on Austria-Hungary Border

Wall Street Journal ^ | 31 August 2015 | Margit Feher, Andrea Thomas

[Lorianne]

Austrian and Hungarian efforts to stem a growing tide of migrants sowed chaos along their frontier on Monday as Germany’s chancellor warned that Europe’s open-border policy was in danger unless it united in its response to the crisis. In Austria, police toughened controls on the border, triggering miles of traffic jams as they checked cars and trucks for evidence of people smuggling. They said they were compelled to conduct the highway searches after discovering the decomposed bodies of 71 people, most of them believed to be Syrian refugees, in an abandoned truck last week. Authorities also stopped and boarded several Germany-bound trains overcrowded with hundreds of migrants, refusing entry into Austria until some of them got off.

Migrants had packed into the trains in Hungary earlier in the day after officials in Budapest abruptly lifted rules barring them from traveling further into the European Union without visas. Such temporary checks remain in accord with the Schengen Agreement, which allows people to travel freely across the borders of 26 European countries that have signed onto the treaty. But in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned that some countries could move to reintroduce systematic passport controls at their borders—unless EU governments agreed to more equally bear the burden of the bloc’s escalating crisis, “Europe must move,” she told reporters in Berlin. “Some will certainly put Schengen on the agenda if we don’t succeed in achieving a fair distribution of refugees within Europe.”

[VanDeKoik]

“...Sow Chaos on Austria-Hungary Border”

Must have missed the old pair getting back together.

[Vigilanteman]

Somalia has a California like climate and a Colorado like population density. Let it experience the benefits of multiculturalism.

[DAC21]

If not for Nobama how much of this crisis could have been averted? A lot of blood on that clowns hands. Of course Europe bears a lot of blame as well by not paying there share of the security bought and paid for by the USA until Nobama came along. Instead off loading their Militay to save their cash to keep afloat their ponzi scheme, AKA socialism, for a few more years. Good luck with the budgets with 10’s of thousands of welfare recipients hitting your boarders.

[VanDeKoik]

The U.S., U.K. and France broke the wall of despots that kept a lid on the real bad guys. Once they were gone, then the ISIS types had free reign (funded by the same western nations), and now they are driving a horde of people to the west, and Europe will collapse because they never recovered from the past 100 years of killing themselves. It’s like what happened to Rome after they took in all of the people driven into it by the Hun.

Short of a serious spat of nationalist revolutions to take the place back, Europe is finished.

[Aria]

We too need that nationalism... Hence Trump.
I have been wondering why we took out Quadaffi... I thought he had been minding his own business in recent years.

[tbw2]

“The Camp of Saints” now unfolds.
The book was just a few decades early.

[pluvmantelo]

So it’s not the massive influx of border jumpers that is sowing chaos, it’s the resistence to the incursion that is the problem. Got it.