Migrants to receive guidelines for EU values

[Sally]

I feel this is a good idea since these refugees are coming from an entirely different cultures. If they follow the rules, they will fit in more quickly into the general populations.


Migrants to receive guidelines for EU values


Published: 03 Nov 2015 09:25 GMT+01:00


Refugees and migrants arriving in Austria will soon be given a folder as they cross the border, containing information about European fundamental rights and freedoms, and urged to comply with them.

This is part of a package of EU-wide measures which are being put together at a conference in Sarajevo, at which Austria’s Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner is a keynote speaker.

The idea for the information folder comes from an Austrian initiative which was conceived for migrants arriving from the West Balkans in 2010. It stresses the values of tolerance and inclusion.

"For example, perhaps a father intends to send his son, but not his daughter, to kindergarten," Mikl-Leitner said.

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Lebanese Catholic Cardinal Fears Radical Muslims Will Conquer the West With Rising Birthrate

 

[Sally]

Lebanese Catholic Cardinal Fears Radical Muslims Will Conquer the West With Rising Birthrate

He might be right, Aris. A Paki Brit poster used to brag that they were the ones having all the babies. These days in the West you see women only have one or two babies. I think in many European countries, the Muslims can have more than one wife, with each wife having several children.

 

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Migrant crisis straining EU gains...

Migrant Crisis Risks Eroding European Union’s Gains
Jan. 3, 2016 - Europe remains split about how to tackle the challenge

If 2015 was the year that more than a million Africans, Afghans and Arabs crashed through the gates of Europe, 2016 will be the year Europe gets to grips with the issue—or doesn’t and faces the consequences. The migrant crisis has divided the European Union, raised new security concerns in a region scarred by terrorism, recast an old debate about how to integrate large, often disaffected Muslim populations, and begun to reshape national politics across the bloc. While Europe remains split about how to tackle the challenge, all countries agree that the first priority this year will be to reduce the inflow to more manageable levels.

Last month, European leaders agreed to beef up controls at the EU’s external borders and lean harder on Turkey, the main transit hub of migrants, to stop smuggling across the Aegean Sea. EU officials want Turkey to limit daily arrivals if not to zero, than to hundreds rather than thousands. Recent experience suggests it won’t be easy. Although the EU and Turkey agreed in November to curb the stream and Greece has promised to better police its waters, daily arrivals in Greece over the first two weeks of December averaged 4,000, according to EU data.

Migrants packing a train in Tovarnik, Croatia​

Failure to cut the inflow could lead to the re-nationalization of some European policy areas, many politicians have warned. The temporary restoration of border controls by France, Germany and others last fall, undermining document-free travel within most of the bloc, shows the erosion process has already started. As hard as stemming the tide will be, dealing with the migrants who are here could be even harder.

Security is among the most pressing challenges. At least two of the attackers who spread terror across Paris on Nov. 13 entered Europe through Greece posing as migrants, according to the Paris antiterror prosecutors’ investigation. This has alarmed Germany, the migrants’ main destination, where authorities for some months last year gave up on checking the backgrounds of Syrian newcomers. Berlin later restored checks, but its stretched resources mean it can still take weeks before new arrivals are fingerprinted, let alone interviewed.

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Migrant crisis: Sweden border checks come into force
4 January 2016 - Sweden has introduced identity checks for travellers from Denmark in an attempt to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country.

All travellers wanting to cross the Oresund bridge by train or bus, or use ferry services, will be refused entry without the necessary documents. Rail commuters heading to Sweden will now have to change trains at Copenhagen Airport and go through ID checkpoints. Sweden received more than 150,000 asylum applications in 2015. Thousands of commuters cross the Oresund bridge daily. It connects the Swedish cities of Malmo and Lund with the Danish capital, Copenhagen. To comply with the new regulations imposed by Sweden, fencing has been erected around one of the platforms at the railway station at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport, Radio Sweden reported.

Direct journeys from Copenhagen's main railway station across the Oresund Bridge to Sweden will no longer be available. Rail operators have reduced the number of trips to Sweden and have warned that there might be significant delays. The changes are expected to add around 30 minutes to the current 40-minute commute, the Associated Press news agency reported. The Swedish government secured a temporary exemption from the European Union's open-border Schengen agreement, in order to impose the border controls. Last month Sweden's state-owned train operator SJ announced it will stop services to and from Denmark because it could not carry out identity checks demanded by the new Swedish law.

Under the law, transport companies will be fined if travellers to Sweden do not have a valid photo ID. SJ said it would not have time to check people travelling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund bridge. One million migrants arrived in Europe by land or sea in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration says. Along with Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations for migrants - with some 150,000 applying for asylum in 2015. In contrast, Denmark expects to receive about 20,000 asylum seekers this year.

Migrant crisis: Sweden border checks come into force - BBC News