The refugees have been haunted by war conditions and risked their lives, so it is a duty to help them. On the other hand it's very difficult that nearly all of them have decided to go to Germany as their final destination and a few countries are left alone with incredible numbers of refugees. Numbers of several hundreds of thousands in a few months cannot be handled.
Munich main train station has been the main/first stop of the endless stream of refugees for the past weeks. This weekend about 10,000 or more new refugees are arriving there. As all capacities have been fully utilized before already, I just heard 9,000 people have to sleep on the floor of the railway station with sleeping bags now. It's pure chaos. I must say given the infinite stream, the lacking willingness of many other European countries to take tens of thousands too and the refugees' resolution that it must be Germany (which simply cannot be accepted for a million of refugees or even more), a system has to be implemented to channel and control the stream. Ultimately, this would mean abandoning the Schengen agreement of open borders, which would be a huge step back. The only solution is that other European countries show the same willingness as Germany currently does, AND to convince the refugees that they should be HAPPY to live in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Danmark and the UK as well and it cannot work if they ALL head for Germany. Germany will definitely welcome 100,000s more refugees, and I think this is a very good, humane thing. On the other hand, if Britain announces to take 10,000 refugees in the next two years, while this is the number arriving on one weekend in Germany, it's a very bad joke. The current chaos at German railway stations is a good thing in terms of helping refugees, it just cannot go on for months and years - which it would if nothing is organized differently in the EU. It could develop into a big crash for The EU.


Edited by rosetree (09/12/15 02:49 PM)