Europe should accept more Syrian refugees, official says

[wvwvw]

Europe should accept more Syrian refugees, official says
BY HANNAH BOLAND
BRUSSELS Mon Jul 7, 2014 2:29pm EDT

(Reuters) - A top European Union official appealed to the EU's 28 member states on Monday to step up their efforts to resettle Syrian refugees, saying Europe must offer a legal alternative to migrants who risk their life to reach the continent by sea.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said Syria's neighbors were hosting three million refugees displaced by the country's three-year-old civil war but Europe had accepted fewer than 100,000.

"That's not a lot of people. Today around half of the (EU) countries have said that they would engage in resettlement from Syria. I think all 28 (EU member states) should," she said.

If all EU countries resettled as many as the two EU countries that take most Syrian refugees, Sweden and Germany, did, "we could at least help 150,000 resettled refugees," she said.

Malmstrom was speaking at a news conference to release the annual report of an EU agency, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which said the number of people applying for asylum in the EU rose 30 percent to 435,760 in 2013, the highest figure since the EU began collecting data in 2008.

In the first five months of this year, there was a further 19 percent rise in the number of applications for asylum compared with the same period of last year, EASO said.

Asylum applicants from Syria more than doubled last year to 50,495 while the second highest number of asylum applicants was from Russia, with more than 41,000 applicants.

Most of the Russian asylum applicants are from the republics of the northern Caucasus, where the EASO report said the human rights situation continued to be worrying.

Thousands of desperate refugees from the Middle East and Africa, including many from Syria, make a perilous crossing of the Mediterranean each year to reach Europe, mainly via Italy, which has been urging its European partners to do more to help it cope.

The U.N. refugee agency, the UNHCR, says around 500 migrants have died so far this year in the Mediterranean.

"People do embark on rickety vessels on very dangerous travels because there are very few if any legal ways to get to Europe. One way ... to come to Europe in a safe way would be through increased resettlement. We must increase this," Malmstrom said.

The EASO also said there had been a significant rise in the number of Ukrainian citizens applying for asylum in western Europe since March, when Russia occupied and then annexed Ukraine's Crimea region.

In the last 20 years, the average number of applications was roughly 100 per month, but between March and May, more than 2,000 applications were made, the agency said.

For the most part, these people had not traveled from Ukraine to apply for asylum, but were already working in the EU, the agency's executive director, Robert Visser, said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0FC20P20140707

[Dictator]

Nothing good will come out of this shit.

[templumForasticus]

Europe should accept more Syrian refugees, official says
BY HANNAH BOLAND
BRUSSELS Mon Jul 7, 2014 2:29pm EDT

(Reuters) - A top European Union official appealed to the EU's 28 member states on Monday to step up their efforts to resettle Syrian refugees, saying Europe must offer a legal alternative to migrants who risk their life to reach the continent by sea.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said Syria's neighbors were hosting three million refugees displaced by the country's three-year-old civil war but Europe had accepted fewer than 100,000.

"That's not a lot of people. Today around half of the (EU) countries have said that they would engage in resettlement from Syria. I think all 28 (EU member states) should," she said.

If all EU countries resettled as many as the two EU countries that take most Syrian refugees, Sweden and Germany, did, "we could at least help 150,000 resettled refugees," she said.

Malmstrom was speaking at a news conference to release the annual report of an EU agency, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which said the number of people applying for asylum in the EU rose 30 percent to 435,760 in 2013, the highest figure since the EU began collecting data in 2008.

In the first five months of this year, there was a further 19 percent rise in the number of applications for asylum compared with the same period of last year, EASO said.

Asylum applicants from Syria more than doubled last year to 50,495 while the second highest number of asylum applicants was from Russia, with more than 41,000 applicants.

Most of the Russian asylum applicants are from the republics of the northern Caucasus, where the EASO report said the human rights situation continued to be worrying.

Thousands of desperate refugees from the Middle East and Africa, including many from Syria, make a perilous crossing of the Mediterranean each year to reach Europe, mainly via Italy, which has been urging its European partners to do more to help it cope.

The U.N. refugee agency, the UNHCR, says around 500 migrants have died so far this year in the Mediterranean.

"People do embark on rickety vessels on very dangerous travels because there are very few if any legal ways to get to Europe. One way ... to come to Europe in a safe way would be through increased resettlement. We must increase this," Malmstrom said.

The EASO also said there had been a significant rise in the number of Ukrainian citizens applying for asylum in western Europe since March, when Russia occupied and then annexed Ukraine's Crimea region.

In the last 20 years, the average number of applications was roughly 100 per month, but between March and May, more than 2,000 applications were made, the agency said.

For the most part, these people had not traveled from Ukraine to apply for asylum, but were already working in the EU, the agency's executive director, Robert Visser, said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0FC20P20140707

Que se jodan.

[portusaus]

Disgusting. Let the savages shoot eachother. It's none of our business.

[Hong Key]

Step 0ne, start or escalate wars in foreign lands
Step Two, flood Europe with more mass immigrates but call them refugees.
Who would refuse them? Just show a cute crying young girl and only nasty Nazis will complain.

[Hong Key]

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[Sikeliot]

If they leave their culture behind them and try to assimilate then sure. If they insist on bringing with them all the problems of their homeland, then no.

[Scandalf]

Maybe this Authority doesn't realize that the people who cross the Mediterranean are victims to crime lords and mafiosi that make them, their families pay an average of 2000 euros for the trip. They don't realize that there's a lucrative criminal activity behind all this migration. If they really want to be so filanthropic, why don't they open a corridor to Brussels?

[wvwvw]

If they leave their culture behind them and try to assimilate then sure. If they insist on bringing with them all the problems of their homeland, then no.

How many are too many to assimilate? Europe has already assimilated way too many foreigners. Every European country has reached its limits. I think rich Arab countries like Saudi Arabia should take care of them.

[portusaus]

If they leave their culture behind them and try to assimilate then sure. If they insist on bringing with them all the problems of their homeland, then no.

That's so illogical though. They would still threaten permanently contaminating the local genome- there is nothing they can do to harmlessly integrate. Most of them are just violent scum that hurt women and kids, and those that aren't still murder via miscegenation. Really, there is no reason why a single one of them or any non-whites should ever set foot in our homeland. It's insanity. We shouldn't care if they suffer. It's not our problem and none of our business. We are being exploited and systematically exterminated.