(01-20-2016 01:03 AM)quino_16 Wrote: And the invasion keeps getting bigger. Expect millions to come this year.
2,100% rise in migrants crossing the Mediterranean: Shocking figures reveal 31, 244 arrived in Greece during the first 16 days of 2016
Quote:31,244 migrants have made the sea journey to Greece since New Year
Migrants crossing numbers are up 21 time from this time last year
Number of new arrivals to Greece is likely to exceed 853,650 of last year


(01-19-2016 07:09 AM)zombiejimmorrison Wrote: Brutal video from the captain, don't save them hoe's, let them feel the consequences of their actions. Would anyone here put their live on the risk and try to save a strange women from getting raped by a gang of immigrants?
(01-20-2016 05:43 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote: What Europeans should be worrying about is where all of these deported masses will end up. You kick them out of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Where are they going to go?
(01-20-2016 06:23 AM)johnfortunebg Wrote:(01-20-2016 05:43 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote: What Europeans should be worrying about is where all of these deported masses will end up. You kick them out of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Where are they going to go?
In any previous period in history, when society was sane, the answer to that question would have been very simple: back.
(01-20-2016 07:42 AM)Phoenix Wrote:(01-20-2016 06:23 AM)johnfortunebg Wrote:(01-20-2016 05:43 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote: What Europeans should be worrying about is where all of these deported masses will end up. You kick them out of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Where are they going to go?
In any previous period in history, when society was sane, the answer to that question would have been very simple: back.
Yeah I don't get why people think mass deportation/repatriation is so implausible. It's already been done multiple times in the past. A simple example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos . King Phillip III of Spain booted out 4% of the Spanish population.
It's just a reclamation of territory.
"Sorry guys, the leftists have been purged, your welcome just ran out, time to go home".
"We don't want to"
"Well then, I guess we'll both be getting old-school".
Quote:Österreich will die Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen deckeln und in diesem Jahr nur noch 37.500 Asylbewerber aufnehmen. Bundeskanzler Faymann spricht von einer "Notlösung", die die EU "aufrütteln" soll.
Österreich will die Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen deckeln und in diesem Jahr nur noch 37.500 Asylbewerber aufnehmen. Bis 2019 sollen es insgesamt maximal 127.500 sein. Darauf hat sich die Regierungskoalition am Mittwoch in Wien geeinigt. Bundeskanzler Werner Faymann (SPÖ) kündigte zudem an, die Grenzkontrollen "massiv" aufzustocken.
Die Aufnahmekapazität orientiert sich demnach am Wert von 1,5 Prozent der Bevölkerung. Bei acht Millionen Einwohnern würde Österreich damit in den kommenden drei oder vier Jahren insgesamt 120.000 Flüchtlinge aufnehmen. Darüber, wie viele Jahre genau, sind sich die Koalitionspartner allerdings uneins. Die Volkspartei von Vizekanzler Reinhold Mitterlehner plädiert für vier Jahre und damit rund 30.000 Flüchtlinge im Jahr, die Sozialdemokraten von Kanzler Werner Faymann wollen die 120.000 auf drei Jahre verteilen – damit wären es rund 40.000 pro Jahr.
Zeitraum ist noch umstritten
Die Regierung berät am Mittwoch über den Kurs in der Flüchtlingspolitik. Umstritten war zunächst offenbar, ob die Grenze von 120.000 Flüchtlingen für einen Zeitraum von drei oder vier Jahren gelten soll. Entsprechend läge die Anzahl bei 30.000 oder 40.000 Flüchtlingen pro Jahr. Unklar ist auch noch, was geschieht, wenn die Grenze erreicht ist. Die Regierung denkt dem "Kurier"-Bericht zufolge darüber nach, Asylanträge eine Zeit lang nicht mehr zu bearbeiten und Wartezonen im Grenzgebiet einzuführen. 2015 stellten rund 85.000 Menschen einen Asylantrag in Österreich.
Unterdessen begann an der österreichisch-slowenischen Grenze der Probebetrieb des sogenannten Grenzmanagements: Am Grenzübergang Spielfeld werden Flüchtlinge zukünftig einzeln kontrolliert. Danach wird einem Bericht des ORF zufolge überprüft, ob sie nach Österreich einreisen dürfen oder zurück nach Slowenien geschickt werden. Spielfeld soll ab Februar als einziger Grenzübertritt für Flüchtlinge geöffnet bleiben. Vergangenes Jahr beantragten in Österreich mit seinen rund 8,5 Millionen Einwohnern fast 90.000 Menschen Asyl.
20.01.2016 | 13:43 Uhr, zuletzt aktualisiert um 14:03 Uhr
Quote:Jihadists are flooding Britain with cannabis from the Albanian drug farm as intelligence experts warn that Islamist extremism is taking hold in Europe
In Albania Islamic State is raising cash for its terror campaign by running cannabis farms and shipping the drug to Britain.
The evil caliphate has seized control of a $4billion Mafia marijuana growing operation in the rural mountains of Albania – giving it a foothold in Europe.
Private jets and ships take the £4billion-a-year harvest to Mafia bosses in Italy, who distribute it, the Sunday People reports.
ISIS moved into the lucrative trade after security services fought their way into an Albanian Mafia HQ in the hill village of Lazarat.
Far from putting paid to cannabis farming, the 2014 raid cleared the way for extremists to take over by removing the Mafia.
ISIS now recruit in the area – often from the Mafia itself.
(01-20-2016 07:42 AM)Phoenix Wrote:(01-20-2016 06:23 AM)johnfortunebg Wrote:(01-20-2016 05:43 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote: What Europeans should be worrying about is where all of these deported masses will end up. You kick them out of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Where are they going to go?
In any previous period in history, when society was sane, the answer to that question would have been very simple: back.
Yeah I don't get why people think mass deportation/repatriation is so implausible. It's already been done multiple times in the past. A simple example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos . King Phillip III of Spain booted out 4% of the Spanish population.
It's just a reclamation of territory.
"Sorry guys, the leftists have been purged, your welcome just ran out, time to go home".
"We don't want to"
"Well then, I guess we'll both be getting old-school".
(01-20-2016 10:20 AM)Seboist Wrote: If such can be done to people who have lived in these territories for generations, there's logically no reason why interloping culturally alien and illegal alien muslims with no roots in any of these european countries can't be expelled.
Quote:Lagarde: migrants can boost EU growth, if states share burdenLINK
Quote:An influx of refugees into Europe need not harm its economy, provided there is an EU agreement on distributing migrants more evenly across the continent, an International Monetary Fund report has found.
The staff report touts the potential economic benefits of migration at a time when EU leaders are facing a growing backlash from citizens concerned about their ability to cope with so many newcomers and the strain they place on public services.
Yet the IMF’s conclusion is likely to add to the rancorous fight among member states over plans to share the burden of refugees more evenly. A proposal from Brussels to do just that has proved politically toxic in many nations.
While EU leaders agreed — under heavy pressure from Brussels and Berlin — to relocate some 160,000 refugees already in Europe, they have only managed to move 322 so far.
Introducing the report at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief, challenged their resistance, saying there was an “upside potential” from migration and that if policies were adopted to integrate entrants into domestic labour markets quickly, they could benefit the economy without harming the prospects of host nation nationals.
“The current surge in refugees is a challenge with an upside potential. With appropriate policies, this rich source of human capital can be harnessed with benefits for everyone,” she said.
Ms Lagarde’s remarks will lend support to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who is facing growing unrest for her decision to open the country to mass immigration.
Ms Merkel will travel today to Bavaria, where opposition to migration is particularly strong, a day after 44 MPs from her political bloc signed a letter calling for the chancellor to change her policy.
Meanwhile, government officials in neighbouring Austria are expected to debate concrete measures on Wednesday to reduce migrant inflows.
In the short term, the IMF paper said that additional spending on migrants increased growth of gross domestic product “modestly” through increases in public spending to support migrants’ needs in housing, food, health and education.
The IMF estimated that the fiscal cost of migration across Europe would range in 2016 from almost 1 per cent of national income in Sweden to almost nothing in Spain, the UK and Cyprus.
When calculating the effects on growth, the fund thought that EU GDP would increase marginally by 0.09 per cent in 2016 and 0.13 per cent in 2017, but with significantly larger effects in Sweden, Germany and Austria.
Austrian GDP is estimated to be 0.5 per cent higher than otherwise in 2017.
The staff paper concluded: “The sooner the refugees gain employment, the more they will help the public finances by paying income tax and social security contributions. Their successful labour market integration will also counter some of the adverse fiscal effects of population ageing”.
In the medium term, the effects of migration were potentially more beneficial, the IMF paper noted, but depended on the speed of migrants’ integration into the host country’s labour market.
Examining previous episodes of migration, the IMF paper said immigrants often integrated slowly into hosts’ labour markets, with higher unemployment rates and lower participation in the labour force.
In Germany, migrants tend to earn 20 per cent less than domestic employees with similar characteristics, but there is a gradual but not full catch-up in wage levels.
The IMF recommended countries allow migrants to swiftly access labour markets — particularly in low-paid jobs without high minimum wages — wage subsidies to employers taking on migrants, low barriers to self-employment and moving to those places with the highest demand for labour.
If this was achieved, “quick labour market integration can unlock the potential economic benefits of the refugee inflow”.
Recognising that refugees might be different from previous waves of economic migrants, Ms Lagarde nevertheless attempted to reassure host country populations. “Native workers are often concerned that refugees will lower wages … [but] past experience suggests these effects tend to be limited and temporary”.
The IMF said studies showed that the long-term budgetary consequences of migration depended almost entirely on the labour market integration of refugees, but it concluded that “the impact of the refugee inflow on pension spending is likely to be favourable but small”.
Quote:Lagarde: migrants can boost EU growth, if states share burden
(01-20-2016 10:58 AM)RexImperator Wrote: There are a lot of applicable laws and signed conventions (EU and UN)...and Germans are all about following the rules.
Quote:Germany to oblige banks to offer accounts to refugeeshttp://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-...5B20151028
Quote:Germany's cabinet signed off on a draft law on Wednesday which will make it easier for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in the country to set up bank accounts.
Under the new rules, everyone will have the right to access basic banking services, including the homeless and people who fall under the protection of the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
This means that migrants will be able to open accounts at any bank, enabling them to deposit and withdraw cash, carry out bank transfers, set up direct debits and make payments with cards.
Germany expects between 800,000 to one million people, many fleeing war zones in the Middle East and Africa, to arrive this year, although not all of them will be given asylum. Giving refugees access to current accounts is seen as a vital first step to help them integrate them into society.
"Those who don't have a bank account, don't have good prospects on the labour market. Hunting for a flat is also a problem for many people without an account," said Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
In Germany, the number of people without a bank account is in the high six figures, according to estimates by the European Commission, and that figure is expected to rise due to the influx of refugees.
Until now, only a few saving banks, which are publicly owned or controlled, have accepted refugees as customers. Asylum seekers were often turned away by other banks since they had no fixed address or lacked the necessary documents.
Under the draft law, which must be approved by parliament to go into effect, all banks that offer current accounts would be obliged to do so for a wider group of consumers.
Last month, Germany's financial watchdog Bafin said it was going to allow banks to accept a broader spectrum of documents, such as papers provided by Germany's immigration authorities.
The draft law also obliges banks to become more transparent about their charges and make it easier for customers to change bank accounts.