EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Is Switzerland part of Schengen?

[Duque de Bragança]

Yes.

[PJL]

Poor Liechtenstein gets left off of everything.

[Solmyr]

I raised the question yesterday why switzerland doesn't seem to be getting any of this.  A friend who pays attention to switzerland said politicians have spoken about this on tv- they're quite relieved about it and say it is down to switzerlands image meaning nobody is tempted.... people assume it's all a frozen snowy wilderness?

So is Finland but refugees still come here.

[crazy canuck]

Yes.

What is the dot on the Adriatic coast of Italy?

[Eddie Teach]

Most likely San Marino.

[The Brain]

Arrogant Canadian. "Your country is tiny therefore I ignore its existence."

[crazy canuck]

Arrogant Canadian. "Your country is tiny therefore I ignore its existence."

Far from it.  I drew attention to the tiny dot on the map. 

[Liep]

#frikadellegate* is trending on Twitter here. A city council ruled that all the public institutions (kindergartens, schools) in the city has to serve pork as part of their offered meals. The reason? We must not bow down to Islam. That was the only reason.

Frikadelle is a pork meatball.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/danish-town-says-pork-must-be-served-at-public-institutions?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews

[Martinus]

A new online petition for a worthy cause:

In order to show how safe current migration is to Europe, particularly regarding the cause of feminism (I reject wholeheartedly the notion that North African and Middle Eastern migrants are unsafe, and rapists), Emma Watson should spend a week's holiday in a Calais migrant camp, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro feminism these migrants are.

https://www.change.org/p/emma-watson-spend-one-week-in-a-calais-migrant-camp-for-feminism

[Eddie Teach]

The cameras would protect her.

[Tamas]

A new online petition for a worthy cause:

In order to show how safe current migration is to Europe, particularly regarding the cause of feminism (I reject wholeheartedly the notion that North African and Middle Eastern migrants are unsafe, and rapists), Emma Watson should spend a week's holiday in a Calais migrant camp, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro feminism these migrants are.

https://www.change.org/p/emma-watson-spend-one-week-in-a-calais-migrant-camp-for-feminism

Ok Legbiter

[Josquius]

I raised the question yesterday why switzerland doesn't seem to be getting any of this.  A friend who pays attention to switzerland said politicians have spoken about this on tv- they're quite relieved about it and say it is down to switzerlands image meaning nobody is tempted.... people assume it's all a frozen snowy wilderness?

So is Finland but refugees still come here.

Your women are hot?
Refugees like metal?

[Tamas]

Switzerland has less welfare state and has made news in recent past with anti-Muslim referendums

[Duque de Bragança]

I am surprised nobody mentioned that Herr Stasi 2.0 a.k.a Mr Schäuble, has a brilliant new idea: a refugee tax
This would make these so-called refugees even more unpopular...

http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-finance-minister-proposes-petrol-tax-to-fund-refugees/a-18984764

Germany's finance minister proposes petrol tax to fund refugees
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says an EU-wide tax on petrol could help finance refugees and strengthen the bloc's borders. His comments come after sexual assaults by foreigners in Cologne caused uproar.

"I've said if the funds in the national budgets and the European budget are insufficient, then let us agree to set up, for instance, a tax on a certain amount on each liter of gasoline," Schäuble told the "Süddeustche Zeitung" daily.
"We have to secure Schengen's external borders now. The solution to these problems must not founder due to a limitation of funds," he added. Schäuble went on to say that if all countries were not willing to pay the tax, he would not mind a "coalition of the willing."
Cologne attacks
The finance minister said it was the attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve that had stepped up pressure to find "a solution to the problem of controlling the European Union's external borders." The problem had to be solved at a European level, Schäuble said, adding that not just Germany, but neighboring countries would otherwise suffer the consequences.
Schäuble said he fully supported Chancellor Angela Merkel's efforts to solve the crisis.
The finance ministry has declined to comment on the remarks.
German politicians against 'refugee toll'
Schäuble's colleagues have criticized his proposal. "I'm strictly against any tax increase in light of the good budgetary situation," Julia Kloeckner, Schäuble's colleague and deputy chief of the Christian Democrats, told journalists. Germany currently has a budget surplus of 12.1 billion euros ($13 billion).
The Social Democrats were also against Schäuble's idea, saying they wanted to "hold society together instead of dividing it with a new refugee toll."
More than one million refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East and Africa have arrived in Germany in the past 12 months. State administrations have been struggling to cope with the influx.
Resentment against refugees peaked after around 1,000 men, believed to be immigrants from North Africa and Arab countries, sexually assaulted hundreds of women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.