Thread: Europe will SHUT its southern doors to migrants

Europe will SHUT its southern doors to migrants: Germany's interior minister says Austria and Italy will discuss how to close the route

• Austria, Germany, Italy to discuss closing Mediterranean migrant route into EU
• Talks were announced by Germany's hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
• Comes as Germany considers migrant measures at shared border with Austria
• Angela Merkel has accused hardline Hungarian PM failing to respect 'humanity' with his immigration policies

Europe will shut its southern doors to migrants under plans to be discussed by Germany, Austria and Italy next week, it has emerged.

Germany's hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said talks would take place between the three nations on how to close the Mediterranean route into the EU.

His announcement comes after a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and amid plans being considered by Germany's government for new immigration measures at their shared border.

Seehofer insisted the measures would not make Austria responsible for people arriving there who had already sought asylum in another European Union country.

Kurz said the two sides agreed Germany's plans at the border would not harm Austria and that they would instead work together on stemming illegal immigration.

'We agreed ... that next week there will be a meeting of the German, Austrian and Italian interior ministers with the goal of taking measures to shut the Mediterranean route into Europe, to make sure that illegal immigration to Europe on this route is stopped,' Kurz told a joint news conference.

Seehofer said the meeting would happen around the time of a European interior ministers' meeting in the Austrian city of Innsbruck on Thursday and Friday of next week.

The number of migrant trips across the Mediterranean has fallen dramatically, with about 45,000 people making it to Europe across the sea this year compared to over a million in 2015, but politically it has become ever more divisive.
Last week, European Union states agreed to tighten their external borders and spend more in the Middle East and North Africa to bring down the number of migrants and to set up new centres to handle new arrivals.

Earlier today, Seehofer said a new plan to establish so-called 'transit centers' at the Austrian border to quickly process new migrant arrivals envisions sending people directly back to where they first entered the European Union, primarily Greece and Italy.

Saying he was 'convinced these will be very difficult talks,' Seehofer said 'it is a problem for all of Europe and we want to negotiate with Italy and Greece' to send them back migrants who had already registered and applied for asylum in those countries, the main entry points to the EU.

The comments in Vienna came after talks with Kurz, who backed the plan, saying that he hoped it could be resolved during his country's EU presidency, which just began and lasts six months.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban of failing to respect 'humanity' with his immigration policy, days after she made key border protection concessions to hardliners who have embraced Budapest's anti-migrant stance.

In a remarkable clash on European values at a time when migration threatens the cohesion of the EU, Merkel and Orban each presented themselves as staunch defenders of the bloc's very purpose.

The problem as I see it, and where the difference lies, is that we must always remember that we are talking about human beings,' Merkel told a joint news conference.

'It is about human beings who come to us, and about Europe's basic message. And that is humanity.'

Merkel said securing the EU's external borders was not about creating a 'fortress' against people brought by smugglers on perilous journeys across the Sahara and the Mediterranean. She said the bloc needed to sign accords with African nations to ensure legal migration was still possible.



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SHUT OUR BORDER TOO

DO NOT COME HERE!

NO VACANCY!

Wait, so it's okay for Europe to close it's borders to a flood of immigrants, but if the USA does it, we're racist xenophobes. Oh, okay, I've got it now. As usual with socialist commies, some of us are, "more equal."

Africa is dumping their poor and sick and criminal on europe just like latin america is doing to the USA.

DO YOU HEAR THAT TRUMP!

ORDER OUR BORDER CLOSED!

BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH!

WE DO NOT WANT THEM COMING HERE!

DENY ALL ASYLUM AND RAMP UP DEPORTATIONS!