The 2nd Migrant Wave to Germany | 265 comments (265 topical, editorial, 2 hidden)

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I read of two reasons: one, the Assad regime is bleeding out and hope of any positive outcome is lost for the secular middle class; two, the situation has worsened in the big refugee camps housing millions in Turkey.

What I did not read any explanation for is the similarly strong up-tick in refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan. As for what makes it a perfect storm, the third simultaneous wave from Kosovo and the rest of the Balkans itself, methinks the simultaneousness is accidental.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 06:21:53 AM EST
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I'm thinking that there is a snowball effect currently. Everyone who has been contemplating a move to the EU at some future date now has the idea that the EU will soon close its borders for real, and they are all thinking : it's now or never.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 08:22:30 AM EST
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Hopefully they are right but unfortunately some will try to keep Schengen alive a little bit longer.

by fredouil (fredouil@gmailgmailgmail.com) on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 08:29:38 AM EST
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It is not so easy to close borders, fortunately. And once the refugees have crossed the borders they are entitled to protection. I don't expect an abolishment of the Geneva Conventions. As to violations of those conventions: that is a political issue, an issue that needs media attention and protest.

by Katrin on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 08:38:25 AM EST
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Borders can't be closed for real, you can only create more business for smugglers, see US-American border.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 09:09:35 AM EST
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"two, the situation has worsened in the big refugee camps housing millions in Turkey."

And was never good in Lebanon.

by IM on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 at 09:32:31 AM EST
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