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No Balkan fence on my watch, Merkel tells eastern Europe
TheLocal.de ^ | 16 Feb 2016 16:17 GMT+01:00 | (AFP/The Local)

Posted on 02/17/2016 11:03:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday criticized an eastern European proposal to close the Balkans refugee route and vowed to push for a plan with Turkey to reduce the influx, at an EU summit.

Merkel, under heavy pressure at home to reduce arrivals, supports a plan under which transit country Turkey would seal its borders and then fly refugees to Europe where they would be settled under an EU quota system.

However, most countries in the European Union have shown little enthusiasm for the idea, and the so-called Visegrad Four - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - have openly defied Merkel.

They have pledged to help Macedonia and Bulgaria close their borders with Greece, which would leave Greece with rapidly rising numbers of refugees while effectively excluding it from Europe's passport-free Schengen zone. ...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; balkans; bulgaria; czechrepublic; eurabia; europeanunion; eussr; germany; greece; hijrah; hungary; islam; jihad; macedonia; merkel; poland; rapefugees; refujihadi; rop; schengen; slovakia; turkey; un; visegradfour; waronterror
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To: csvset

Oh good. She and Obama can be running the world together after agenda 21 is in place.

Some days it is good to be old.


21 posted on 02/18/2016 2:18:48 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Olog-hai

She is thier Obama, waging a secret war against her own people


22 posted on 02/18/2016 2:43:53 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Post5203

Exactly.

How is she still a German citizen? She should be banished to Syria.


23 posted on 02/18/2016 4:39:40 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Olog-hai

Merkels communist roots have produced red blossoms.


24 posted on 02/18/2016 4:42:20 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Olog-hai


25 posted on 02/18/2016 5:10:24 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
Poland might having something to said about that


26 posted on 02/18/2016 5:16:40 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: jpsb

Next time, Eastern Europe will save the West.


27 posted on 02/18/2016 5:32:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Olog-hai

Eastern Europe will simply build that border wall, regardless.


28 posted on 02/18/2016 6:54:23 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Gaffer

I can’t help but think Western leaders are being threatened and subsequently forced to accept the Islamic invasion.


29 posted on 02/19/2016 11:30:18 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Interesting. Threatened how? By violence? By turn off of oil? Threat of some kind of bomb they have?

I suppose most any of these would be enough to turn quite a few leaders’ knees to jelly. I guess it’s worth thinking about these things.


30 posted on 02/20/2016 1:30:12 AM PST by Gaffer
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