DanRoM
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This is a forum, people. Topics are structured into different threads because having them all in one thread is confusing. So, here it is, an own thread dedicated to the refugee situation in and around the European Union.
So, here we have it: One the one hand, there is the ongoing war against IS in Syria (well, what's left of it) and Iraq (which is basically reduced to Baghdad because the Kurdistan Region might as well count as a different country).
Because of this, basically everyone in Syria seems to try to be granted asylum in Europe - and especially Germany.
My personal opinion: After slowly becoming more and more ashamed of being German since last winter because Nazis were (are?) on the rise once again (yes, to me "Pegida" et al. have to be classified as Nazis), culminating in worryingly regular cases of arson in buildings that were to be used as refugee shelters, the last weeks have me for the first time ever be kind of proud of Germany. I am honestly astonished that Merkel of all people does something that's morally right - opening the borders (officially, since we don't actually have physical borders...) for people fleeing from a warzone. And the volunteers helping the arriving refugees, seemingly without any kind of organization (how un-German).
Yes, we (Germany) invite a whole bunch of problems this way. Handing out some food and clothes at train stations is easier than sheltering more than a million people for longer. So, I am worried too.
The other aspect of the situation is the European perspective. This situation is a serious strain on the European Union. It was already crackling because the economy going down the drain (Sidenote: It's not a "economic crisis". Crises pass.) and now I genuinely fear the powderkegs around the continent - the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East - causing basically everyone to try and come to (North-Western) Europe will destroy the EU before long.
The solution of course isn't to erect border fences - the EU is about working together, to get rid of borders, to distribute freedom. Well, it used to be...
Also, an editorial note: I am aware that I don't back my words with any kind of hard facts here. It's just my opinion and feelings. You lot are of course very welcome to an open discussion.
This is a forum, people. Topics are structured into different threads because having them all in one thread is confusing. So, here it is, an own thread dedicated to the refugee situation in and around the European Union.
So, here we have it: One the one hand, there is the ongoing war against IS in Syria (well, what's left of it) and Iraq (which is basically reduced to Baghdad because the Kurdistan Region might as well count as a different country).
Because of this, basically everyone in Syria seems to try to be granted asylum in Europe - and especially Germany.
My personal opinion: After slowly becoming more and more ashamed of being German since last winter because Nazis were (are?) on the rise once again (yes, to me "Pegida" et al. have to be classified as Nazis), culminating in worryingly regular cases of arson in buildings that were to be used as refugee shelters, the last weeks have me for the first time ever be kind of proud of Germany. I am honestly astonished that Merkel of all people does something that's morally right - opening the borders (officially, since we don't actually have physical borders...) for people fleeing from a warzone. And the volunteers helping the arriving refugees, seemingly without any kind of organization (how un-German).
Yes, we (Germany) invite a whole bunch of problems this way. Handing out some food and clothes at train stations is easier than sheltering more than a million people for longer. So, I am worried too.
The other aspect of the situation is the European perspective. This situation is a serious strain on the European Union. It was already crackling because the economy going down the drain (Sidenote: It's not a "economic crisis". Crises pass.) and now I genuinely fear the powderkegs around the continent - the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East - causing basically everyone to try and come to (North-Western) Europe will destroy the EU before long.
The solution of course isn't to erect border fences - the EU is about working together, to get rid of borders, to distribute freedom. Well, it used to be...
Also, an editorial note: I am aware that I don't back my words with any kind of hard facts here. It's just my opinion and feelings. You lot are of course very welcome to an open discussion.