EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Liep]

Silly Westerners. I couldn't run far enough from the Balkans and you go there voluntarily.

I'll visit Hungary too!

[The Larch]

Silly Westerners. I couldn't run far enough from the Balkans and you go there voluntarily.

It's not as if I'm moving there, it's tourism, mate. Cheap beer, gorgeous girls, outgoing people, what more can one ask for? 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Silly Westerners. I couldn't run far enough from the Balkans and you go there voluntarily.

We go for the scenery, not the people :p

[The Larch]

Silly Westerners. I couldn't run far enough from the Balkans and you go there voluntarily.

We go for the scenery, not the people :p

I actually go there for the people. 

[celedhring]

I'm angling for a gig in Bulgaria myself 

[Iormlund]

I might visit Hungary on business this spring, but dates are fuzzy. Probably have just one night for Budapest in any case.

[Zanza]

I consider to do a Eastern Europe tour in summer.

[Zanza]

This is an unexpected development.  And the silly people at CNN don't know it's called Slovakia. 

[Valmy]

Slovenians will not be putting anymore shrimps on the barbie 

Please tell me that is shopped.

[Archy]

I guess the fence contractor was Australian 

[Queequeg]

Silly Westerners. I couldn't run far enough from the Balkans and you go there voluntarily.

Your problem.

[Liep]

So Turkey wants another €3bn and visa free travel in Europe. For that they give the EU something that's vaguely and complicated.

It sounds like they'll take back refugees from Greece and then the refugees can apply from Turkey to get asylum in a EU country. I don't see how that will ever work.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is simple, we pay the Turks Danegeld, they do bugger all for it and then they demand more Danegeld.

[Liep]

It is simple, we pay the Turks Danegeld, they do bugger all for it and then they demand more Danegeld.

Now I understand, that's just sound entrepreneurship.

[Tamas]

So:

-we give a shitload of money to Turkey. Erdogan will use it to better conditions in refugee camps. Honest.
-Once Greece cleared her islands of migrants (so, only a matter of ten years or so, considering they keep arriving daily), we will ship new arrivals back to Turkey in international bundles. In return Turkey will offload as many Syrians into the EU as Syrians are in the return shipment bundle.
-Turks will get visa-free Schengen travel from June, assuming Turkey holds up their end of the bargain (which seems to be taking a lot of money and putting some level of organisation into ridding themselves of the refugee crisis)

I think the more priceless one is the last one. After June, Turkey can just threaten to give Turkish papers to all refugees and be done with the whole thing.

Could somebody explain to me how the EU could not create a giant refugee camp/shelter in Greece from that 3 billion euros?

How can they be so stupid as to agree to almost all of Turkey's demands (only thing they said no to was giving them carte blanche to carve out a part of Syria to "process" refugees), whent hose demands only increase Turkey's future leverage against them?