Italian MEPs claim compensation from Merkel for the migrant crisis -

[Yilmaz]

In his interview with Bild Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Angelino Alfano said that Europe had abandoned Italy on the refugee crisis. Yet he refused to criticize the "open-door" policy, declared by Angela Merkel in 2015.

MEPs from Italy sitting on the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs put it more clearly and sharply in their open letter to the Chancellor of Germany.

The letter explicitly stated that Germany failed to honor the obligations it had assumed back in 2015 to provide additional finding for migrants and exceed the established quotas of accepting refugees. The MEPs have demanded that Germany pay financial compensation for it.

By opening the EU doors Merkel has not only made profuse promises aiming to involve the whole EU in this process, by hook or by crook, but also roped her own people in without any consultations with them. No one in Germany has ever heard they should host refugees in excess of the quotas let alone cover the expenses of neighboring countries.

But these stories are not made up of nothing. As far back as a year ago, despaired of ever receiving the promised assistance from Germany, Italy demanded that the immigration policy be financed with Eurobonds. Merkel rejected the idea then. Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere only adds fuel to the flame. One day he accuses Italian authorities of sending migrants to the north, another day he blames them for deliberate human trafficking by sea. At the same time, human rights activists also put pressure on Italy demanding that its ports stay open and protesting against repatriation of the refugees, who failed to undergo the special control.

And so it should come as no surprise that Italian officials have started to resent it and openly blackmail Germany by threatening time and again to 'issue provisional permits for all arriving refugees enabling them to move freely within the EU'.

Now, that the European Court of Justice has rejected the 'open-door' policy, quite a few questions remain unanswered. For instance, there is one to Mrs. Merkel. Who in Germany is going to pay compensation to Italy, if the EU court finds its claims legal? And it would be quite interesting to ask the Germans whether they are happy with the leader who plays around with their EU neighbors and disgraces the entire nation? One unsuccessful PR stunt of Germany's Chancellor can cost millions of euros and lead to the breakup of the European Union.

 

[Somsnosa]

I live in a small town in the south and our immigrant population tripled in just 2 years. Even if you don't count immigrants with bad intentions, they're still an heavy expense; when the costs are impossible to mantain, they become bums. Those few who become honest workers are forced to work in slave conditions by mafious families. No one wins here
We have heavy problems of corruption and debts and that's used as an excuse by EU to keep us by the balls. Sad situation, really

 

[Miss Hortensia]

Germany: "Poland and the other Eastern European countries caused the crisis, they refuse to take refugees over."
Poland and Co.: "Lol, no, bunk off."

Spain, Greece, Italy: "That's too much, we can't take whole Syria and North Africa in. Germany and France must help, they're obligated to do so."
Germany: "Lol, no, bunk off."

Modern EU in a nutshell, sadly... Nobody wants to admit that an "always Open Door" policy is a real hazard for your own economic and social obligations. Now the damage is done and everybody tries to ignore it.

No one in Germany has ever heard they should host refugees in excess of the quotas let alone cover the expenses of neighboring countries.

Btw, there's actually a very nasty story roaming through Germany: Many German citizens signed surety bonds for refugees in 2015, so that the latter could enter the country legally. Theoretically, these sureties should have been annulled right after granting the refugee status. But there's a good amount of refugees, who were never accepted as refugees, since only Syrians have realistic chances.

Now, three years later, where many refugees don't have jobs to care for themselves without welfare, German civil services charge those warrantors. They have to pay every Euro the state once invested in the guarantee. So, if a refugee collects 800 Euro, the warrantor has to repay the state with 800 Euro.

(Yes, some people literally have to pay for their naivety/stupidity.)

"Beim Geld hört die Freundschaft auf" - "Short reckonings make long friends". No proverb could be more true in Germany and especially Maizére will ignore every cry for help as long as he can.

 

[Robot Holocaust]

Hey, Merkel. When you're done helping out Italy with the mess you made, could you toss Spain a few bucks as well for all the shit you put us through, you dusty old bag?