have a Big Fat Permanent Greek vacation,
amongst the Greek Schwartzers,
the Syrians are smarter than the Germans.
The Syrians see that US and UK are largely
responsible for them leaving Syria
and yet those countries are hard to get to.
So, the Syrians see their best hope is
Germany or any other superficially social-
democratic country that will look after them
until they can get on their feet.
If the Syrians hadn't had a plan to get to
the Fatherland, they would have been made
into a political football.
Many EU and non-EU countries are putting
up borders and engaging their armies in a
game of
Kick the Refugees Around
except for Greece, a country that even the
Syrians feel sorry for.
So, it is both ironic and fitting with natural law
that the refugees have forgiven Greece
and instead pushed the German
and instead pushed the German
government(s) to their limits, logistically and
financially.
Such is the price of success in Continental
Europe during the nascent
the Great Mid East War,
the Great Troika War
and the Great US/EU war
[what you know as the Refugee Crisis]
[what you know as the Refugee Crisis]
checkit: Reuters & Automatic Earth
[Automatic Earth says] Hope some of that goes toward giving them jobs.
[Reuters]
• German States To Spend At Least €17 Billion On Refugees In 2016 (Reuters)
Germany’s federal states are planning to spend around €17 billion on dealing with the refugee crisis in 2016, newspaper Die Welt said on Tuesday, citing a survey it conducted among their finance ministries. The sum, bigger than the €15.3 billion that the central government planned to allocate to its education and research ministry in 2015, is a measure of the strain that the influx is causing across the country as a whole. Germany is the favoured destination for many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, partly due to the generous benefits that it offers.
The German states have repeatedly complained that they are struggling to cope, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy has caused tensions within her conservative camp. Die Welt said that excluding the small city state of Bremen, which did not provide any details, current plans suggested the states’ combined expenditure would be €16.5 billion. The paper said actual costs would probably be even higher because the regional finance ministries had based their budgets on an estimate from the federal government that 800,000 refugees would come to Germany in 2015. In fact, 965,000 asylum seekers had already arrived by the end of November.
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