
Over the past weekend, thousands of refugees from the Middle East arrived in the European Union countries. The authorities of Germany, Austria and Hungary are already thinking about measures that would limit the flow of migrants. Meanwhile, in Ankara it is believed that the EU accepted the "ridiculous small" part of the refugees, while in Turkey their number is calculated by millions.
The Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu considers the measures of the European Union to receive migrants insufficient. According to him, Turkey accepted two million people, protecting them from hostilities in Syria and Iraq and thus becoming a “buffer zone between Europe and chaos,” Yahoo News reports with reference to the Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung newspaper.
According to the head of the Turkish Cabinet, to put the problems of refugees on the shoulders of Turkey and build the "Christian fortress of Europe" - this is "convenient for the EU" to what is happening. Davutoglu noted that such an approach is contrary to European values and Türkiye, being a candidate for members of the European Union, cannot imagine that most Europeans support these measures.
Davutoglu added that Europe finally had the opportunity to resolve the issue of migration collectively. The prime minister emphasized that Türkiye was ready to cooperate with European partners.
In the EU, the Migration Policy of Germany and Austria is also unhappy. But the reasons are different
Meanwhile, in the European Union itself there were those who are dissatisfied with the policy of Germany. The spokeswoman for the Hungarian Government Zoltan Kovach criticized Germany and Austria for letting a large number of migrants without identification and recognition of their refugees. The representative of the Cabinet of Ministers complained that citizens who arrived from the Middle East were refused to register and cooperate with the Hungarian authorities, since in Vienna and Berlin they created the feeling that they were happy with all refugees.
Also on the eve of the leader of the French National Front party, Marine Le Pen accused Germany of the country's authorities open national borders for migrants to hire “slaves” and reduce the overall level of wages, reports Reuters. "Germany, apparently, believes that the country's population is on the verge of extinction, and the authorities may be striving to reduce wages and continue to hire slaves thanks to large -scale migration," the head of the nationalist party said.
Germany will spend billions of euros for refugees for 2015 and 2016
The day before, three thousand refugees arrived in Germany through Austria. It is expected that in the near future Germany will accept another 30 thousand migrants. Against this background, the ruling coalition of Germany, led by the Party, the Christian Democratic Union, which is headed by the Chancellor of Angela Merkel, decided to allocate 6 billion euros for reception and maintenance of refugees, Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung reports.
About 3 billion euros will be included in the national budget for 2016. Another 3 billion will be sent to the disposal of federal lands and regional authorities to help them cope with a difficult situation due to the influx of migrants.
In addition, the federal government is going to allocate one billion euros for the maintenance of migrants by the end of 2015. The authorities note that the money payments to refugees in places of temporary maintenance should be replaced with natural benefits if possible, RIA Novosti said.
The media reported that the UK against the backdrop of an unprecedented crisis of migration is going to accept 15 thousand Syrian refugees. At the same time, the British Prime Minister David Cameron has not yet been called the exact number of migrants who will help.
Private persons are also provided to help migrants. For example, General Director of Finland Bank Erkka Liikanen said that he was going to transfer his monthly salary to refugees. “I am sure that through the Red Cross the means will reach those who need them most,” Liikanen wrote on his Facebook page.
Thus, the general director intends to take part in the charity event of the humanitarian organization and transfer 10 thousand euros to his account. Liikanen in 2008-2014 headed the Red Cross of Finland.
In addition, last Saturday, Finland, Jukh Sipil, said that he was ready to provide refugees with his house in Kempele. The prime minister’s family currently lives in Sipoo, and the house in Kempel is empty, Interfax notes.
Germany, Austria and Hungary want to abandon emergency measures to receive migrants
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Austria said that 15 thousand Syrian refugees from Hungary arrived in the country over the weekend, Reuters reported. It is worth noting that most migrants try to get into the richest EU countries with good social assistance programs - Germany and Sweden. Only 90 people for Saturday and Sunday turned to the Austrian authorities with a request to provide asylum.
Against this background, the Austrian leadership made it clear that emergency measures taken to facilitate the movement of migrants across the borders would soon have to be canceled. Austrian Chancellor Werner Feimann said this issue is reviewed after "intensive negotiations" with the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel. “Now we need to step by step from emergency measures to ordinary, in accordance with the law and human dignity,” the Austrian leader said.
In addition, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on Austria and Germany to quickly abandon emergency measures. "So far, Austria and Germany will not say that they will no longer accept migrants, millions of new refugees will come to Europe," the politician on the air of the Austrian television channel Orf said.
The leadership of the Hungarian police also appealed the day before to Austria citizens with a request to refrain from transporting refugees in their cars across the border, since this can be qualified as a violation of the criminal legislation of Hungary. "In connection with the Austria of Austria, the representative of the Hungarian Police Department Victoria Chicher -Kokovach drew the attention of its participants to that paragraph in the criminal legislation of the republic, which speaks of imprisonment for up to three years for those who help other persons in the intersection of the Hungarian State border," the Hungarian police, published by RIA Novosti.
The Dublin Agreement, signed by all countries of the European Union, says that refugees are obliged to apply for asylum in the first EU country in which they found themselves. However, most migrants from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea do not want to stay in the poor countries of the European Union, such as Hungary and Greece, and with all their might strive to submit documents in rich countries with good social assistance programs - Germany and Sweden. Last Saturday, it became known that the European Union wants to coordinate the rules for the resettlement of migrants for all countries.