Looks like an outbreak of common sense has struck Germany. Yes, because of the massive influx of refugees, the police have requested that passport controls be carried out at borders just like the good old days. So Germany would become a proper country again. Poor old Germany is being forced to face reality as a borderless EU Schengen area is absolutely hopeless at dealing with the unforeseen and massive influx of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. You have to feel sorry for Germany with its massive landlocked border as part of the Schengen area, that area of 26 European countries that have got rid of passport and any other sort of border control on their common borders. Yes, it’s a European Union policy. As anyone can see, the Schengen area operates as one country for travel purposes. Once you enter Europe you can melt into a vast area of about 420 million people, and have some leeway over which country you would like to settle in. Germany right now is experiencing a vast influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East which will further change the population structure of the country. The article reports that a figure of 500,000, is expected to try and enter Germany this year. Staggeringly, statistics released In early August from the German Federal Statistical Office show that one in five people living in Germany have an immigrant background. No one is saying you have to lack compassion for genuine refugees from war and strife, but there has to be a better way of dealing with the situation.
One would hope that Germany being what it is, a very big boy on the European block, that it would have some influence now on the rest of Europe over this matter. If it gets back its own passport control it can then send refugees back immediately to the country from which they entered the Schengen area. It will be far harder for migrants or refugees to just move from one country to another if every EU country restores proper border controls. Then perhaps a more realistic and effective cooperative policy can be worked on to deal with the migrant crisis.
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