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发帖数: 29846 | 1 “Just Say No”: Austria Announces Daily Quotas on Refugees: Yearly Flow
Reduced to 37,500 from 1,000,000
Feb 2016
Posted by mishgea | February 16, 2016 2:04:49 | Economics
Austria Announces Daily Refugee Quotas
Earlier today, Austria announced daily quotas on refugees arriving at its
borders. With that announcement, the last hope for Merkel’s refugee sharing
program finally bit the dust.
The reduction in the number of migrants Austria will accept is staggering.
Last year 1,000,000 refugees flowed through Austria. This year Austria will
take 37,500.
Merkel’s Plan “A” Refugee Sharing Plan Bites the Dust
Please consider Austria Announces Border Clampdown to Slow Migrant Flow.
Austria has announced new restrictions on its borders with Italy and
Slovenia, as ministers played down hopes of a common European agreement on
managing Europe’s largest refugee influx in decades.
“Plan A [sharing refugees across the EU] isn’t enforceable .&#
8201;. . and it won’t be on Thursday and Friday,” Werner
Faymann, chancellor of Austria, told reporters in Vienna, as he announced a
tightening of restrictions along internal EU borders.
Austria will on Wednesday announce a new daily cap on the number of
asylum seekers it will allow into the country, in co-ordination with
neighbouring Slovenia. Once the daily limit is reached, asylum seekers will
be turned away in line with the Dublin Convention on asylum rules, the
official said.
Austria has struggled to cope with the arrival of more than 1m asylum
seekers in 2015 alone — most use the country as a corridor to access
Germany after their journey through Greece and the western Balkans.
On January 20, ministers announced the country would only accept 37,500
asylum seekers in 2016 and last week Sebastian Kurz, Austrian foreign
minister, said Macedonia should be ready to “completely stop the flow of
migrants across its southern border from Greece”.
Countries further south along the western Balkans migrant route are now
bracing themselves for what Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Austria’s interior
minister, described as a co-ordinated “domino effect” of border clampdowns
. Officials in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia have repeatedly
warned they will immediately match border restrictions imposed by any of
their neighbours.
“It is important that each country progressively restricts the flow on
its border, and that we do this in agreement with each other,” Ms Mikl-
Leitner said on Tuesday. “The brakes are being applied step by step.”
Refugee Math
1,000,000 a year is 2,739 per day
37,500 a year is 102 per day
“Just Say No”
The EU finally has the start of a plan that makes sense. Let’s label the
plan for the way it needs to work: “Just Say No“.
The refugee sharing proposals of Merkel were idiotic from the start. The “
Just Say No” approach will lead to bottlenecks for existing refugees but it
will stop new inflows.
It will be up to Greece to stop the flows right at the border with Turkey.
But the EU should offer fence-building assistance to Greece, whatever it
takes, instead of depending on Turkey.
Finally, Greece should be willing to turn away any flotillas that arrive on
its shores, just as Australia has done.
The “Just Say No” plan is essentially the same plan I made about six
months ago without the catchy name. |
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