EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Athens to Warsaw and they made you go through Frankfurt? Seems rather out of the way.

[Martinus]

Athens to Warsaw and they made you go through Frankfurt? Seems rather out of the way.

Very few direct flights (I think one per day at some inconvenient hour) and Frankfurt is a regional hub.

[Valmy]

Yeah it is like how I used to have to stop in Dallas to fly to Mexico. You know how those Airline hubs are.

[alfred russel]

Money well spent.

Depends on perspective. Government spends 2 billion euro on the fence. Contractors are mysteriously friends and relatives of the government, and build the fence with actual costs of 50 million euro.

[Tamas]

Money well spent.

Depends on perspective. Government spends 2 billion euro on the fence. Contractors are mysteriously friends and relatives of the government, and build the fence with actual costs of 50 million euro.

Well, that's a given. In most countries I assume, but especially in Hungary.

[Ed Anger]

A beet wall. Should be soft and squishy to run through.

[Valmy]

A beet wall. Should be soft and squishy to run through.

In front of it will be a moat filled with goulash.

[Ed Anger]

A beet wall. Should be soft and squishy to run through.

In front of it will be a moat filled with goulash.

A delicious addition.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Serious incidents already happened. Even between "refugees". The latest serious incident recorded was in the Med though.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32337725

Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim migrants after they allegedly threw 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy.
The Christian migrants, said to be from Ghana and Nigeria, are all feared dead.
In a separate incident, more than 40 people drowned after another migrant boat sank between Libya and Italy.
Almost 10,000 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued in recent days. Italy has called for more help from the EU to handle the crisis.
More than 500 people from Africa and the Middle East have died making the perilous crossing since the start of the year. Earlier this week, 400 people were believed to have drowned when their boat capsized.
'In tears'
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Many migrants picked up by the Italian navy in recent days have been brought ashore to Sicily
The 15 Muslim migrants involved in the row with Christians were arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo and charged with "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate".
The suspects, who are from the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea, were among 105 migrants travelling in an inflatable boat that left Libya on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses told police how the altercation resulted in Christians being thrown overboard, and that some of the survivors had formed human chains to avoid a similar fate.

Lovely people to receive...

which is why don't need more. There's sufficient other groups that are less problematic

[Archy]

The great Wall of HUNGARY.  No scribes allowed. 

[Josquius]

Because Hungary is "the EU state most affected by illegal immigration" (I shit you not they had the nerves to say that) the government just announced they will be building a 4 meters tall fence on the Serbian border.

In that case the Hungarian government should be totally willing to support the plan to share the refugees around right?

[The Larch]

I read a BBC article about the Hungarian border town where Kosovar inmigrants cross the border with Serbia, and apparently there are no border guards there, just three nature rangers or something. One would think that putting a few border guards would be much cheaper than building a huge fence all over the border.

[Josquius]

That would involve finding a few Hungarians willing to work though

[Syt]

A German news article says that Hungary does, in fact, have the second highest rate of new asylum seekers per pop. coming into EU.

However, more than 80% of them then travel on westwards to less shitty countries.

[Martinus]

A beet wall. Should be soft and squishy to run through.

In front of it will be a moat filled with goulash.

Anyone brave enough to cross the goulash moat and the beet wall would then be accosted by a herd of tickling goats.