Germany joins Austria, Czech Republic and Denmark in closing the borders
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...y-problem.html
Germany joins Austria, Czech Republic and Denmark in closing her borders (suspending the EU's Schengen) to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants
Germany and Austria temporarily reintroduce border controls as tens of thousands of migrants pour in as crisis spirals out of control
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Originally Posted by Douglas Carswell MP, The Daily Telegraph
Germany has just effectively withdrawn from the Schengen agreement. Faced with the prospect of hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding into Germany’s town and cities, Berlin has unilaterally halted the free movement of people. Another day, another crisis in Euroland.
The European Union seems to be lurching from one public policy disaster to the next.
Several years ago, it emerged that Greece – which accounts for a tiny fraction of Europe’s overall economic output – had been running up massive, unsustainable debts. What ought to have been a manageable problem,
has been allowed to snowball into crisis of ruinous proportions. Early this summer,
it became clear that people smugglers were systematically transporting people across the Mediterranean in open boats. By giving all comers the right to settle, and making no effort to stop the boats, Europe’s elite has turned a steady flow of people into a mass migration. Whether it is monetary policy or migration policy, Europe’s elites seem unable to anticipate challenges and adapt. Instead they end up overwhelmed.
Like the dismantling of the euro, the demise of Schengen should be welcomed. Like monetary union, Schengen was a late 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem. We live in a world of increasing labour mobility. More and more of us will work, travel and play in other countries – and a thoroughly good thing, too. But that is all the more reason to devise a system of migration control that is able to differentiate between, say, a French business woman going to Milan or Frankfurt for the day, and a migrant looking to move permanently from one continent to another. Schengen makes it impossible to differentiate between the two.
Today, several million Londoners will log in and out of the London underground system using an oyster card. Millions of us will log into our bank accounts online. The technology to allow people to log in and out when they cross borders seamlessly is there. It ought to be possible to allow more labour mobility – and control who crosses your borders. Europe’s tragedy is that she is run by a technocratic elite, so blinded by the arrogance of EU integration – and bureaucratic self aggrandisement – that they do not innovate unless forced by the gravity of a crisis to change.
A generation ago, we joined what became the European Union because it was supposed to make us more prosperous. Many in 1970s Britain thought that being in the Europe club would mean that we were better governed.
Look at the public policy crises across the channel. Who still thinks that?
Ha ha ha, yet another idealistic EU policy on the floor in tatters after it has collided with reality. Just a shame normal people have to suffer yet again.
As it happens, if I were the Greeks and other southern European nations I would be demanding that all the illegals be taken to Berlin and Brussels given Angela Merkel and the EU elite were oh so keen on taking so many of these lovely people. In other words, they encouraged and invited more and more to come and now they've pulled up the drawbridge: and the likes of the Hungarians and Greeks are stuck with thousands of them of which we've already seen violent riots started by the illegal immigrants as a result.
It's nice to be proven so right so soon, if you too couldn't see it coming you're as thick as mince.
Thoughts?
