Thursday, April 07, 2011

Playing the Game According to French Rules

Immigrants at a camp in Calais

The European refugee crisis just keeps getting more and more interesting.

The European Commission — which up until now has granted lavish rights to the Lampedusa boat people and demanded that the Italians comply with them — has decided to uphold the new French rules and place restrictions on the movement of the refugees across borders within the Schengen Area.

This is significant, because it will force Italy to cope with the flood of refugees — which may exceed 250,000 over the next few months — on its own. Even if Brussels coughs up the promised money, the Italians will still be faced with a huge logistical and social crisis. The refugee camps on the mainland have thus far failed to contain the migrants effectively, so that new arrivals frequently break out and scatter to the four winds.

Add to this the fact that the latest batches of immigrants whose boats originate in Libya are mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. This means that Italy will face the likelihood of riots in the camps and the sort of massive crime wave that follows Somalis and Eritreans wherever they migrate.

According to ANSAmed:

EU: Permit No Automatic Right to Travel

BRUSSELS, APRIL 7 - The member States have the right, in general, to issue temporary permits to immigrants, as stated in the directive in question, “but giving out a permit does not implicate that these people have an automatic right to travel”, said EU Commission spokesman Marcin Grabiec in answer to a question whether the temporary permit announced by Italy for North African immigrants would allow them to move freely in the entire Schengen area.

The possibility of accepting this permit as a pass for national territory and the Schengen area depends on the “type of permit that will be issued, and we don’t know that yet”, the spokesman continued. When the immigrants have a temporary permit, “they still must respect certain conditions”, he specified.

The immigrations must have travel documents, they must demonstrate that they have means of subsistence and that they pose no risk to public order. “People who have a permit and respect these conditions”, Grabiec explained, “can travel in the EU member States for a 3-month period. Who does not respect these conditions, must be repatriated to the member State of origin”.

That means, for example, that if the French authorities decide to repatriate immigrants arriving from Italy, they will be sent to Italy.

In other words, the European Union’s official policy supports France and forces Italy to feed, clothe, and house all the culture enrichers who manage to make it to Lampedusa in their dinghies.

The big question is: why does Italy put up with this nonsense?

How many thousands of barbarians will they absorb before the Italians conduct a cost-benefit analysis concerning obedience to EU directives?

There are obvious ways to discourage all those boats from leaving Tunisia, but such measures would violate all those prissy EU human rights laws.

Do the Italians still care? If so, for how much longer?


Hat tip: Insubria.

11 comments:

Michael Farris said...

Why are these people being accepted as 'refugees' in the first place?

The protests leading to a regime change ended any real claim of persecution. These are economic migrants period (with the twist that they're mostly looking for welfare rather than work)

Vortac said...

I believe northern Italy will be the first European region to completely reject PC MC and massive influx of "refugees" will accelerate that process immensely.

F***W*T TW****R said...

Off topic completley but I had to get this in today. from Wikipedia.org

1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

sgt.red.blue.red said...

Are any of the refugees Christians, or are they, by and large, mos-slums?

Baron Bodissey said...

Sgt. --

The vast majority of them are Mohammedans. However, there are probably a few Christians and idol-worshippers among the arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa.

philip.zhao said...

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" THE WORLD IS ONE ".
Yes, sir, Dr. Sun, we are heading
your way !

Anonymous said...

It's better if Italy is forced to deal on its own. If you want something done right, do it yourself, don't ask the EU.

It doesn't matter all that much if the boat people are Christian, animist, or Muslim. African is African. And I say the same thing about the Ethiopian "Jews," so no double standard here.

In Hoc Signo Vinces† said...

In hoc signo vinces†

Will David Cameron personally welcome them on to British soil to make amends for our imperial past?

How can a Thatcherite free marketeer ultraliberal argue against economic immigration, answer for Niall Ferguson they can not, Britain is history thanks to the 3 Marketeers Thatcher, Blair and Cameron.

Looking around my environment with some understanding of the political structure, as an observation and I STRESS NOT as advocacy the only political movement that could save Britain is a form of National Socialism there is no other political force that could breach the walls of the political impasse in enough time to save the British people.

Richard said...

If Italy has to pay for the refugees on its own we can add it to the members of the EU that will have their economy collapse. If the rest of the EU pitches in with money there is a good possibility their economies will falter or collapse depending on how strong they now are. These facts added together with the Caliphate being reformed and promising to attack Israel point to a violent future for Europe.

S said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz5c4NtmbCA&feature=related

S said...

My Brother the Islamist

My Brother the Islamist

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