#1 Europe beginning to rebel against migrants influx

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Hungary firmly rejects any accusation that suggests that its actions concerning the issue of migrants are wanting, Levente Magyar, foreign ministry state secretary for economic diplomacy, said.

Magyar insisted that Austrian criticism of Hungary first for being too strict by building a fence along the Hungary-Serbia border and then for being too lenient for allowing migrants to travel on without valid documents was paradoxical. Rather than criticising Hungary, the “superhuman” efforts by its authorities to tackle the influx of illegal migrants should be appreciated, Magyar said. Concerning the EU’s refugee quotas the state secretary said that if Hungary is impacted by the largest number of illegal immigrants “by what logic should it be expected to receive even more?” “We do not want any more migrants because we can hardly manage the current situation,” he said, adding, however, that Hungary will do its best to contribute to a European solution to tackle the problem.

In response to the words of Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann, minister of foreign affairs and trade Péter Szijjártó told MTI that it is disappointing and incomprehensible that the leader of a neighbouring country should talk in this vein about an issue which is causing Hungary as well as Europe immense difficulties amounting to an historic challenge. The Hungarian minister pointed out in this context: ”one would expect the leader of a neighbouring country to make statements in the light of facts pertaining to the issue”, rather than make false accusations.

”It's shabby to make Hungary a scapegoat for the failure of the European Union's naive approach to issues of poverty Migration”, president of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) told Magyar Hírlap. Secretary general of FPÖ, Harald Vilimky also rejected Faymann's remarks, telling us that ”the chancellor has caused many problems in his own country and should focus on solving these, before criticising a friendly country”. ”Hungary is certainly right when it tries to protect its territory from the flood of illegal migrants. The EU migrant and refugee policy has failed on all levels, Hungary is the only country that reacted correctly”, he added.

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By Reuters

Published: 13:29 EST, 2 September 2015 | Updated: 13:29 EST, 2 September 2015

By Martinne Geller

LONDON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Truckers caught up in Europe's migrant crisis say business is increasingly disrupted by queues and stowaways, but they are far more worried governments will step up border controls.

If the border-free zone within Europe were to disintegrate or be scrapped, it would call into question not only the road haulage industry's own, time-sensitive business model but the supply chains of industries across the continent, they say.

Faced with an influx of migrants, the European Union's 28-nation members have accused one another of breaking the law with ad hoc measures and failing to join forces to agree a common, workable solution.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that if Europe fails to agree to a fair distribution of refugees, the passport-free Schengen zone encompassing 26 European states would be called into question.

For DSV, the third largest road freight operator in Europe with more than 17,000 trucks on the roads every day, that would have a serious impact that would end up fuelling inflation.

"If they start to stop all the trucks it will be costly for everyone and the bill will be passed on to customers and in the end, goods will be more expensive," said Soren Schmidt, head of DSV Road.

Jack Semple, Director of Policy for the UK's Road Haulage Association said its more than 6,000 member companies were already feeling the impact in an industry built on just-in-time logistics, whether for car parts or fresh produce.

Strike action by ferry workers in June exacerbated the situation by creating extra long queues.

"Our members tell us they have incurred substantial and demonstrable losses but so too have their customers. We had one case where a load of high-grade steel plate was written off because migrants had got into the trailer because it was delayed and that impacted all sorts of supply chains," Semple said.

"NEW ERA"

Britain is not a party to the Schengen agreement but its companies, with parts coming and going across the continent, would still be affected if it began to crumble.

"I think were Schengen to be scrapped, we're into a completely new era," Semple said. "There would have to be a rethinking of the European supply chain, stocking levels and that would obviously impact on cash flow."

Cyrille Gibot, spokesman for Dutch logistics company TNT Express, said it was looking closely at what ministers or governments might decide. "For now we're not going to speculate on what measures they could take," he said.

Austria's toughening of controls along its eastern borders last week, after 71 migrants were found dead in a truck, created long queues and raised the prospect other countries may follow suit. "If that is permanent, it could spread like wildfire," said a senior European diplomat. "Schengen is under serious stress."

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For Jan Buczek, head of Poland's Association of International Road Transport Carriers, talk of an end to Schengen, or its gradual erosion, brings back bitter memories of the time before Poland joined.

"There were passport, document controls, crosschecks, and all of this increased the waiting time to hours at best and days at worst," he said.
Buczek, who represents 5,500 companies, says there are 27,000 companies in Poland doing international road haulage, employing 200,000 drivers.
"The cost of a driver-car set stands at around 200 euros a day, so it's easy to imagine how much crossing borders used to cost us monthly or annually before we joined."

The impact of any tightening of border controls would be far-reaching, he said.
"Suspending the free flow of people within the EU would definitely boost nationalistic tendencies, tendencies to close national markets, and that would limit international road transport, and have a really negative impact on the industry."

Good.

A decade ago in the British Islands, one only ever saw the odd Dutch, Belgian or German driver.

The hell on earth that the roads have now become have to be seen to be believed. Billions of lorries driven (dangerously and badly) by foreign bastards bringing in tons of shit to feed, clothe and entertain all the unneeded/unwanted "immigrants".

And the ZOG machine whines on and on about "sustainability".

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By John Stevens for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:10 EST, 2 September 2015 | Updated: 18:43 EST, 2 September 2015

Europe's migrant crisis escalated last night as border controls were reintroduced and Germany admitted it could no longer cope with the influx.

Berlin had sought to criticise others – including Britain – for not taking in enough refugees after it announced it would no longer deport those coming from Syria.

But the EU’s passport-free travel zone was on the brink of collapse after Germany was forced to ask Italy to tighten border controls.

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As tensions between European leaders unable to agree on how to handle the crisis simmered, Slovakia’s foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement removing border checks between 26 European countries has fallen apart.

Last night, as the numbers crossing into Germany reached nearly 150 per hour, it asked Italy to impose identification checks at Brennero, on the border with Austria, to ease the flow. An unprecedented surge of migrants has been trying to get to the country after Berlin last week began accepting asylum claims from Syrian refugees regardless of where they entered the EU.

It has caused chaos across eastern Europe as authorities have struggled to cope with the vast numbers who, as undocumented migrants, are theoretically barred from travelling across the EU. Figures released yesterday showed a record 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany last month.

German officials last night insisted that its request to tighten border controls was a ‘temporary measure’. But Mr Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement had ‘de facto fallen apart’. ‘There are tens of thousands of people walking around here without anyone checking them,’ he said. ‘So, do we have Schengen, or don’t we?’

Stephan Mayer, a senior MP in German leader Angela Merkel’s party, said: ‘I do not think Schengen is over… But I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen.’

In the Czech Republic, around 200 migrants trying to head to Germany from Hungary were hauled off trains in the southern region of Moravia. Police officers used permanent marker pens to number the refugees, who included dozens of children, before arresting them.

An estimated 3,000 people – mostly wanting to get to Germany – were camped at Keleti station in Budapest as officials said that under EU migration rules they were not allowed to travel. Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban will today meet EU chiefs to discuss the crisis.

In Austria, 24 Afghan refugees were rescued from an abandoned lorry. They had been locked in and left to suffocate.

In Greece, ferries arrived in Athens carrying more than 4,000 migrants from the holiday island of Kos. Refugees broke through a police cordon in new clashes on the Greek border with Macedonia.

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Published: 03:43 EST, 3 September 2015 | Updated: 03:43 EST, 3 September 2015

BRUSSELS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday that his country should have in place by Sept. 15 a package of regulations, including a physical barrier, to counter an influx of migrants.

"We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders, among them the prime ministers, are not able to control the situation," Orban said after a meeting with European Parliament President Martin Schulz in Brussels.

"I came here to inform the president that Hungary did everything possible in order to keep the regulations. We create just now in the Hungarian parliament a new package of regulations, we set up a physical barrier and all these together can provide a new situation in Hungary and in Europe from 15 September. Now we have one week of preparation time." (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald and Philip Blenkinsop)

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Published: 03:37 EST, 3 September 2015 | Updated: 03:37 EST, 3 September 2015

WARSAW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said on Thursday that Europe should do all it can to stop illegal migrants from entering, though the country is prepared to share the burden of giving shelter to refugees in genuine need.

"All must be done to stop immigration at Europe's borders. We have to defend ourselves against illegal, uncontrolled immigration," Schetyna told public broadcaster TVP1.

The European Union is struggling to cope with its biggest influx of refugees since World War Two, most fleeing war or extreme poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is expecting to cater for some 800,000 this year alone, said on Tuesday refugees should be distributed across the EU according to member states' ability to receive them.

In July, Poland agreed to accept more than 2,000 refugees from Syria and North Africa by 2017.

"Poland shows solidarity, the gesture confirms this. ...Today's situation is very dramatic. Questions about future numbers arise. ... We're ready for further discussion and accepting tough decisions," Schetyna added.

He said Poland was also facing pressure from the east, as economic migrants from Ukraine flee the conflict in the country's east, and was aware any escalation of the conflict could trigger a huge wave of refugees.

Poland will take part in a summit of central European states in Prague on Friday that will seek to forge a common position on the crisis.{ID:nL5N1161XG]

(Reporting by Marcin Goclowski; Additional reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Agnieszka Barteczko; editing by John Stonestreet)

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Published: 03:28 EST, 3 September 2015 | Updated: 03:28 EST, 3 September 2015

By Marton Dunai

BUDAPEST, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest's main railway station on Thursday but authorities cancelled all trains to western Europe, triggering chaos and confusion.

Hundreds of people, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East, stormed a waiting train, cramming children through open windows in the belief a two-day standoff with police had ended and they were being allowed to continue their journey west to Austria, Germany and beyond.

But signs in Hungarian said there were no west-bound trains. It was unclear why the police had suddenly withdrawn, having prevented over 2,000 migrants from entering for two days.

"There's a German flag on this train so we though it went to Germany. So it's not going to Germany?" a man clinging with one hand to the doors of a train told a Reuters journalist, declining to be named.

The standoff had become the latest symbol of Europe's migration crisis, the continent's worst since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing wars, as well as economic migrants escaping poverty, have been arriving in Europe by rickety boat across the Mediterranean or over land across the Balkan peninsula, straining the bloc's asylum system to breaking point and confounding efforts to forge a united policy.

The police withdrawal coincided with the start of a special parliamentary session in Hungary to debate tightening migration laws, setting up "transit zones" on the border with Serbia and introducing tougher punishment for those who cross illegally.

BORDER FENCE

Hungary is completing a 3.5 metre-high fence on its southern border with Serbia to keep out migrants, 140,000 of whom have been caught entering the country so far this year.

The government said the new measures to be adopted by parliament this week would be enacted by Sept 15 and cut illegal border crossings to zero.

In an opinion piece for Germany's Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country was being "overrun" with refugees, most of which, he noted, were Muslims, not Christians.

"That is an important question, because Europe and European culture have Christian roots. Or is it not already and in itself alarming that Europe's Christian culture is barely in a position to uphold Europe's own Christian values?" he asked.

"Only when we have protected our borders can questions be asked about the numbers of people we can take in, or whether there should be quotas."

Nearly all those who have entered Hungary press on west to the richer countries of northern and western Europe, ignoring EU rules which require them to wait for processing in the EU country where they first arrive.

Germany expects to receive 800,000 this year and has begun accepting asylum claims from Syrian refugees regardless of where they entered

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The Czech Republic will no longer detain Syrian refugees trying to reach Germany, police have said, making it the latest country to abandon European asylum rules in the face of an overwhelming migration crisis.

Authorities had been detaining refugees, who had applied for asylum in Hungary but were trying to travel onwards, for up to 42 days.

The policy announced on Wednesday was prompted by Germany’s declaration that Syrians who reached the country would be allowed to stay, regardless of their route, and Hungary’s reluctance to take back refugees registered in the country.

“We reacted to the positions of Hungary and Germany,” police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova said in a television interview. “We consider it ineffective to keep these people in detention centres.”

Czech authorities had been struggling to deal with the numbers of arrivals and had been drawing criticism for writing identity numbers in pen on the arms of hundreds who were intercepted and pulled off trains.

A tweet by Andrew Stroehlein, Human Rights Watch’s European media director, was shared more than 1,000 times.

Hungary, meanwhile, has struggled to deal with thousands of people stranded at Budapest’s main international railway station after authorities decided to stick to European Union rules and prevent refugees and migrants leaving for other countries in western Europe.

On Monday, the country unexpectedly allowed anyone with a ticket to board trains travelling to Austria and Germany without visa checks, prompting chaos at the station and long lines for tickets that can no longer be used.

The closure of the station to refugees and migrants appeared prompted in part by pressure from other EU countries trying to cope with arrivals from Hungary.

About 3,000 people were camped at the Keleti station in the Hungarian capital early on Wednesday, many sleeping outside the main entrance guarded by police, who said citizen patrols were assisting them in keeping order.

Hundreds of refugees and migrants gathered in front of the station, and shouted: “Freedom, freedom”, and demanded to be let on to trains bound for Germany, but it remained closed to them.

Volunteer groups accustomed to providing food, clothing and medical assistance to a few hundred people at a time struggled with the large number of people staying in the station’s sunken plaza.

More than 150,000 refugees and migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the country’s southern border with Serbia.

Refugees outside the station complained they had bought tickets believing they would be able to travel on to Germany. Some may now attempt to travel north to Czech Republic, although the countries do not share a common border, so travellers would have to pass through Austria or Slovakia.

Rafir Kozma, 30, from Syria, said: “I came here and bought a ticket for three people to Munich. It was €370.20 [£272]. My train was at 7am this morning and the police didn’t let me into the station.”

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The Czech President and the Slovak Prime Minister have become the first European political office holders to stand up and declare that the Third World invasion of Europe is illegal and needs to be repelled with force.

As hundreds of thousands of nonwhite invaders continue to pour across the EU borders to parasite off the European people, all the so-called western “leaders”—except those of the Czech and Slovak republics—have publicly welcomed the invasion in one form or another.

Czech President Milos Zeman was the first to speak out against the invasion. In an interview with the Czech newspaper Blesk, Zeman told the invaders that “Nobody invited you here. Respect our laws, just as we respect the law when we come to your country. If you do not like it, go away.”

Blames West’s War in Iraq

Zeman then went on to blame Western powers for the current refugee crisis:

“The current wave of migration is rooted in the crazy idea to invade Iraq, which allegedly had weapons of mass destruction, but nothing was found.

“It is not only the United States who is to blame for this, because some EU member states coordinated the operations against Libya,” he added.

In another interview with the Radio Frekvence station, Zeman went on to demand that the invaders all be deported to their countries of origin.

“Most immigrants are in Czech Republic illegally, and as they violated law, they should be promptly returned, not placed into various accommodation facilities,” Zeman said.

He said most refugees seemed to come to Europe for economic reasons.

“I believe that a crushing majority of them are economic immigrants,” he said, arguing that they also came from poor countries that were not hit by war, such as Eritrea, Senegal, Kosovo and Pakistan.

Zeman said he did not expect that these people want to work in the Czech Republic, indicating that they would live on welfare.

Lists Risks of Nonwhite Invasion

Zeman said there were three risks concerning Muslim immigrants. First, it is the creation of socially excluded zones, ghettos, as these people would not be able to assimilate due to their cultural differences, he said.

He said there is the risk of spreading infectious diseases, though he would not overestimate it.

The third risk is sleeper cells sent by Islamic State that would develop into terrorist organizations, Zeman said.

Zeman repeatedly said the European Union should protect its external border. If this protection fails, it is necessary to stop the migrants at the Czech border and return them, he added.

Calls for Forcible Expulsion by Army

Finally, Zeman told the media that the Czech Republic should defend its borders, using the army to expel illegal immigrants because the European Union isn’t curbing the influx.

“Of course I would wish for the EU to strengthen its borders, but I don’t see any real action,” Zeman told reporters in Prague castle. “Therefore I believe the Czech Republic should take care of its borders alone and expel illegal immigrants

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By Reuters

Published: 08:21 EST, 3 September 2015 | Updated: 08:21 EST, 3 September 2015

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Faced with a surge in migration from the Middle East and North Africa, two European countries are exploring the possibility of erecting towering steel security fences along parts of their borders, similar to Israel's barrier with Egypt.

Hungary and Bulgaria have made preliminary inquiries about buying the Israeli-designed fences, according to an Israeli business source who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the discussions.

Both EU countries are beefing up their borders to deter migrants, many of them refugees from wars, who are seeking to use them as gateways to richer countries further north and west, particularly Germany.

But moves to throw up such barriers - which could be around 5-6 metres (15-20 feet) high, topped with razor wire and equipped with cameras and motion sensors - would evoke memories of Cold War-era divisions in Europe and exasperate EU officials who say they would not help to solve the crisis.

Bulgarian and Hungarian officials indicated that such discussions about security fences were taking place.

"I presume that such is the case because the cooperation between the (Israeli and Bulgarian) ministries of internal affairs and security is quite intensive," said Rayko Pepelanov, Bulgaria's deputy ambassador in Israel.

"I cannot give you any details right now, but I think that we have taken from the Israeli experiences as much as we can."

Hungary's foreign affairs and trade ministry said it "does not dispose of information about ongoing Israeli-Hungarian negotiations on buying Israeli-designed border fences".

The Israeli source said any deals remained some way off, pointing to budget constraints and the political sensitivity in the European Union over erecting fences to control the flow of migrants and refugees from Syria, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.

"(European countries) all want solutions and see the relevance of our technologies," the source said. "But they also need EU support and this has not been forthcoming."

The European Commission, the EU executive, has said it opposes the construction of fences but accepts it is up to each nation to decide how it protects its borders.

"Fences ... do not send the right message, particularly to our neighbours," said spokeswoman Mina Andreeva.

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The type of fence the countries have expressed interest in is the one Israel has constructed along its 230 km (143-mile) border with Egypt, rather than the steel-and-concrete barrier that separates the West Bank from Israel and East Jerusalem.

The Egyptian fence was built over three years and completed in 2013, with the aim of stopping an influx of migrants from Africa and guarding against raids by Islamist insurgents.

The fence cost the Israeli government around $380 million. A similar-style barrier is likely to cost foreign customers about 15 percent more

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BICSKE, Hungary Hungarian police halted a train packed with migrants bound for the Austrian border and tried to force them to disembark in a town with a detention camp on Thursday, a confrontation that has become a focus of Europe's migration crisis.

After shutting migrants out of the main train station in the capital Budapest for two days, authorities allowed exhausted and confused migrants to board a westbound train. Hundreds crammed aboard clinging to doors and squeezing their children through open carriage windows.

But instead of proceeding to the Austrian border, the train was stopped just west of Budapest in the town of Bicske, where Hungary has a migration reception centre, and police ordered the migrants off.

Police cleared one carriage, while five more stood at the station in the heat. Fearing detention, some migrants banged on windows chanting "No camp! No camp!"

One group pushed back dozens of riot police guarding a stairwell to fight their way back on board. One family - a man, his wife and their toddler - made their way along the track next to the train and lay down in protest. It took a dozen riot police wrestling with the man to get them up again.

Thousands of people have died at sea and scores have perished on land in Europe's worst migration crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

European public opinion was galvanised by images of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy face down in the surf on a Turkish beach which appeared on the front pages of newspapers across the continent on Thursday.

"He had a name: Alyan Kurdi. Urgent action required - A Europe-wide mobilisation is urgent," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Twitter of the boy, one of at least 12 people who died out of a group of 23 who attempted to reach a Greek island.

The influx has strained the European Union's asylum system to breaking point, sowing division among its 28 nations and feeding the rise of right-wing populists.

The major EU countries have taken sharply opposing positions on whether to offer welcome. Germany plans to receive 800,000 refugees this year, while Britain has set up a programme to allow in vulnerable Syrians that has admitted just 216.

"As one of the world's richest countries, with good infrastructure, a viable welfare state and a solid budget surplus, we are in a position to rise to the occasion," German Labour and Social Affairs Minister Andrea Nahles said at a briefing ahead of a G20 meeting in Turkey.

By contrast, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday the problem could not be solved by Britain taking more refugees.

Nearly all of the migrants arrive on the EU's southern and eastern edges but press on for richer countries further north and west, creating havoc for a bloc that normally allows free movement internally but restricts it for undocumented migrants.



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The train's departure from Budapest followed a two-day standoff with police barring entry to the station to more than 2,0

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Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has claimed that Europe is in the grip of madness over immigration and refugees, and argued that he was defending European Christianity against a Muslim influx.

Orbán’s incendiary remarks came as he arrived in Brussels for a confrontation with EU leaders over his hardline policies in Europe’s biggest migration emergency since the second world war.

“Everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe,” Orbán wrote in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Europe’s response is madness. We must acknowledge that the European Union’s misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation.

“Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe. If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.”

Germany, France, and Italy are demanding an overhaul of European asylum procedures as attempts to get to grips with the crisis leave Europe floundering in incoherence while the Schengen passport-free travel zone across 26 countries threatens to unravel.

“Today everything is immigration,” said the EU president, Donald Tusk, on Thursday. “We live in sobering, shocking times.”

“The Schengen treaty is under threat, that’s absolutely clear,” said Martin Schulz, the European parliament speaker, after meeting Orban. “This is a crucial moment for the European Union. A deeper split of the union is a risk we cannot exclude.”

Amid deep confusion over border controls and free movement, there were scenes of chaos at Budapest’s Keleti railway station when the Hungarian authorities’ on-off approach to running the trains shifted. Thousands of displaced people scrambled to board trains hoping they were heading for Germany when the Hungarians restarted rail traffic a day after closing the station to refugees.

“This is not a European problem, it’s a German problem,” said Orbán in Brussels. “They all want to go to Germany.”

Tusk said Europe was split east/west over the refugee influx, with some, such as Orbán seeking to contain the crisis by erecting border fences, while others, led by Germany, wanted obligatoryquotas for refugees across the union.

Securing the borders was the most urgent challenge, Tusk said, adding he expected half a million “irregular migrants” to arrive in Europe this year. That seemed an understatement since Germany projects arrivals of 800,000 there alone.

Shifting his previous opposition to binding quotas sharing refugees across the EU, Tusk said the union should relocate 100,000 people. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, is to table more ambitious proposals next week and is expected to raise the quotas figure to 160,000 from the 40,000 proposed in May and fought over since. Natasha

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"We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders, among them prime ministers, are not able to control the situation," Orban said on Thursday, after a meeting with European Parliament President Martin Schulz in Brussels.

The prime minister added: "I came here to inform the president that Hungary is doing everything possible to maintain order. We are creating now in the Hungarian parliament a new package of regulations, we set up a physical barrier and all these together will provide a new situation in Hungary and in Europe from September 15. Now we have one week of preparation time."

On Thursday, Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants inside Budapest's main railway station, but then the authorities canceled all trains to Western Europe, causing chaos.

Hundreds of people, many of them fleeing conflicts zones in the Middle East with their children, took a waiting train by storm, trying to push kids through open windows, hoping they would be allowed to continue their journey west to Austria, Germany and further afield. But signs in Hungarian said there were no west-bound trains, Reuters reported. It's unclear why the police had suddenly withdrawn, having stopped more than 2,000 migrants from entering for two days.

Hungary is currently building a 3.5 meter-high fence on its southern border with Serbia designed to deter migrants. So far this year, 140,000 have been caught entering the country.

Following talks with the president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, Orban noted the current refugee crisis was not an EU problem, but rather "a German problem," as he put it.

According to Orban, none of the migrants want to "stay in Hungary."

"All of them want to go to Germany," the Hungarian prime minister said.

On Wednesday, the Hungarian PM lashed out at the "failed immigration policy" of the EU. In a commentary for the German Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung daily, he defended a decision to erect a fence along its southern border with Serbia, saying:

"We don’t do this for fun, but because it is necessary."

He said his country was being "overrun" with refugees, most of whom, according to the prime minister, were not Christians.

"Europe and European culture have Christian roots. Is it not alarming that Europe's Christian culture is now barely in a position to uphold European Christian values?" he wondered.

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Of course, the government gets more support for their hate campaign when they can force the notion that most of the “illegal migrants” and the “asylum shoppers” are simply single men between 15-35. If they show women and children sleeping on the ground with no food or water, people might have sympathy for the refugees. This is what Fidesz wants, it is not about protecting children because if that was the case, they would offer kind refuge and asylum for these children travelling thousands of kilometers on foot, instead of scaring them to death to stay in Hungary and seek asylum here. Even the police tell them, if they seek asylum here, they will be sent packing back to Syria.

MTVA is a joke and a simple propaganda machine. To run a media machine for the tax-payers money for propaganda purposes is primitive, cowardly and disrespectful to the people of Hungary. Treason it is. Immature abuse of power it is. If you have a bad case, if you have something to hide, if you prefer to do shady political business, if you discriminate to the benefits of the loyalists, then you must take over state media and “educate” the rest of the people. No decent government are afraid of the media. No decent politician are afraid of the media. Unfortunately, because of history, it will take generations to understand for Hungarian people.Meanwhile, they are bewitched by primitive propaganda and populism…….without any defense or ability of critical thinking.

rebuild. Syrians shouldn’t use the war as an excuse to start a life in

coming into the country are men. You wouldn’t think it from looking at

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Hungary rejects the EU refugee quota system as a country which has received significantly more migrants than the number of refugees the EU recommends redistributing, Hungary’s foreign minister said. “The EU has talked of redistributing 60,000 people but Hungary alone has seen an influx of 160,000 migrants so far this year,” Péter Szijjártó said after talks at a conference in Bled, Slovenia. Hungary also objects to the EU policy because “it encourages migrants and human smugglers”, he said. People who are taking meaningful action are “victims of an organised smear campaign and criticism based on lies.”

Referring to the “dramatic” situation in the Western Balkans, Szijjártó said neither Macedonia nor Serbia can be expected to stop the flow of migrants, as the people are entering from EU countries, and noted that Hungary is pushing for representatives of EU member states to hold a conference on the crisis in Budapest as soon as possible with the participation of Western Balkan countries and Turkey.At the same time, the minister reassured his colleagues that Hungary would continue to abide by EU regulations, including the Schengen rules. He said member states were responsible for protecting the EU’s borders and enforcing the laws on crossing them.

As I understand we speak about receiving refuguees while they stilll need help. As soon as they earn their money, they should be able to move anywhere, but as similar to any EU-citizen, they need to prove that they can sustain their own living conditions in an honest way.

If I report to the Authorities in London/Paris/Stockholm that I have moved their officially, I may still need to prove that I have some source of legal income.

Inside the Schengen zone there cannot be any restricted travel, then how would that be enforced in general and always?

Temporarily any Scengen country can introduce extra checks limited in space and time for specific events, like a G7 meeting or football match.

Correct, the quota-migrants are to be processed, but not in first place on asylum and maybe not where they wanted to go. During that time they are suppose to stay in their given country.

This is not meant guarded camps, it can even by individual flats, for those places that have free ones. If they skip, they will be reported as run-aways and the EU-wide system will be alerted.

Probably there will be a lot of more controls of people’s paper in the future, which of course targets suspected ‘illegal immigrants’.

The word migrant is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “one who moves, either temporarily or permanently, from one place, area, or country of residence to another”.

A refugee is, according to the 1951 Refugee Convention, any person who “owing to a well-founded fear” of persecution is outside their country of nationality and “unable” or “unwilling” to seek the protection of that country. To gain the status, one has to go through the legal process of claiming asylum.

More and more sill

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Hungary shut its main border crossing with Serbia on Friday after about 300 migrants escaped from a nearby refugee camp, police said.

“In the interest of preventing accidents, the police have temporarily closed the Roszke motorway border crossing to incoming traffic and are redirecting traffic to (a national road),” police said in statement.

The move came after around 300 people broke through a fence of a nearby refugee camp.

“The police have taken the necessary steps to apprehend them,” police said.

Hungary has become one of the flashpoints in Europe’s migrant crisis in recent weeks, as thousands of refugees cross into the country on their way to Germany, which recently eased asylum restrictions for Syrians.

On Friday, some 500 migrants faced off police for a second day in the town of Bicske, refusing to get off a train that they believed would take them to the Austrian border, but that had stopped just 40 kilometers out of the capital, with police attempting to remove the refugees and place them in a camp.

The stand-off came as Hungarian lawmakers prepared to debate tough new anti-immigration measures, including criminalizing illegal border crossing and vandalism to the new anti-immigrant razor-wire fence erected along the border with Serbia.

An estimated 2,000 migrants remained sheltered in a concourse underneath Budapest’s Keleti station on Friday, waiting for trains to take them toward western Europe.

Hungary’s handling of the migrants, who have been stuck for days, sometimes even weeks, in makeshift camps at the station, has caused confusion and anger.

After unexpectedly allowing several thousand to board trains for Austria and Germany on Monday, authorities suspended services for 48 hours, then reopened it on Thursday, only to have the national railways announce that it was suspending service to western Europe for “security reasons.”

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[Alyss]

Europe is fucked! Europeans are fucked and being replaced! European leaders are doing nothing about it and don't want too either. The european leaders love their big pay packet from the Jews and they take that over the survival of the european race. Open boarders, free movement , 3rd world immigration was to speed up the genocide of europeans in Europe handed down by the fucking jews.

The JEW did say and quoted soon after WWII: "good no more white babies being born", & "Europe will be populated once again but not with the old european population but with the mongrel race population".

[Robbie Key]

mass media is going into a frenzy about this 'refugee crisis'. good on them for not taking more shit from the EU.

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BREAKING 'Visegrad Four' reject migrant quota idea

In a joint statement, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia reject any quota system for accepting migrants.

They insisted "any proposal leading to introduction of mandatory and permanent quota for solidarity measures would be unacceptable''.

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-34149231

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By Reuters

Published: 10:00 EST, 4 September 2015 | Updated: 10:00 EST, 4 September 2015

By Robin Emmott and Francesco Guarascio

LUXEMBOURG, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Italy, France and Germany pushed on Friday for a European system to repatriate more migrants who fail to qualify for asylum and to improve external border controls, as EU foreign ministers sought a broader response to the bloc's migrant crisis.

In a letter to the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, the three governments called for new rules to end a patchwork of national policies that have sowed division among member states.

"A more efficient asylum system ... goes hand in hand with a more efficient repatriation policy of irregular migrants," said the letter seen by Reuters as the foreign ministers met to discuss migration in Luxembourg.

Migrants who come to Europe only to seek jobs are not entitled to asylum and should be sent back according to EU rules but only about a third of them are actually repatriated, the European Commission estimates.

The letter also called on the EU to agree a list of countries considered safe and whose citizens have fewer rights to claim asylum. This should speed up repatriation and free up time and resources to deal with legitimate asylum applications.

A third proposal is to create an "integrated border management system" which could help to identify, fingerprint and register migrants seeking asylum. The European Commission is set to propose next week more money and staff for the EU's border control agency Frontex, as well as the EU safe countries list.

While Europe has been shocked by images of a drowned migrant boy on the Turkish coast and migrants forced from a train in Hungary, it remains divided over how to deal with the refugees from wars in the Middle East and people leaving Africa and Asia to seek work.

Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will propose an expanded scheme next week to relocate asylum-seekers around the EU from Hungary as well as from Greece and Italy according to national quotas, senior EU officials said.

At the meeting in Luxembourg, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused countries of "creating unrealistic dreams and hopes in people", a veiled reference to Germany's decision to take more asylum-seekers.

The 28-nation EU has few common rules to handle migrants and Italy says it is being left to deal with the thousands of people arriving by boat across the Mediterranean.

"We should move towards a single asylum application system where asylum no long concerns only the first country of arrival," said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

Responding to the letter to Mogherini, the EU's head of enlargement, Johannes Hahn, said it was "absolutely necessary" to provide EU support to countries dealing with the biggest flow of migrants. "We have to be clear that the European Union has to support those countries particularly affected," Hahn said. (Additional reporting by

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[Bev]

Originally Posted by Alyss

European leaders are doing nothing about it

The stories in this thread suggest otherwise.