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EU: Bitter row escalates over Netherlands’ refusal to take in migrants

Jan 4, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Netherlands have exposed a growing division in the European Union after refusing to take in migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean unless other member states are willing to do the same.

The change in some European countries from a big open-door welcome to migrants to the closing of borders is an increasing problem for the globalist Brussels elites. Too much crime, jihad threats and chaos have been transported into the EU with the immense Muslim migration, as should have been expected.

However, the recent unexpected outbreak of violent protests in Belgium over the migration issue, and the subsequent government collapse (accompanied by a surge in nationalism), was telling.

There is still a widespread belief that the EU is somehow solely responsible for migrants. The Muslim countries near Europe have long ago washed their hands of any responsibility for the Muslim migrants, without any rebuke or even acknowledgement from the mainstream media that they have done so.

“EU in bitter row as tensions ESCALATE over rescued migrants,” by Joe Barnes, Express, January 4, 2019:

THE Netherlands have exposed a growing division in the European Union after refusing to take in migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean unless other member states are willing to do the same.

The Netherlands became embroiled in a stand-off over the onboard conditions after initially refusing to accept the rescued migrants, which includes four women and seven children, four of whom are unaccompanied.

Italy, Malta and Spain were also involved in the row after refusing to take in a number of those on board Sea-Watch 3.

The European Commission, Brussels’ powerful executive, are working with EU countries in order to end the deadlock.

Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner responsible for migration, has been in direct contact with member states in an attempt to get the rescued migrants off of the boat.

A Commission spokeswoman said: “More solidarity of all member states is needed and the situation shows once again, as we have said many times, that predictable and sustainable solutions for disembarkation and allocation is urgently needed in the Mediterranean.”….

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  1. FYI says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Those migrants should be ….sent to Rome:pope francis simply loves the poor so much and there is plenty of room ..once the cardinals move out of their apartments.

    Think of all the space in st Peter’s square:it could easily accomodate a good few tents.

    The nebulous{..sometimes verbally gaseous..} Juncker may not approve:as a fan of the Great Project he would rather they be dumped all over the EU{-SSR} like the unelected Soviet politicians used to do:dump them in small out-of-the way towns to culturally enrich the localities.

    Send them to the Vatican.francis wants them.

    • abad says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 5:51 pm

      These migrants need to be sent to the Vatican. Francis can practice what he preaches.

      • smoris says

        Jan 5, 2019 at 3:03 pm

        Actually, maybe Francis should also be sent away. There is no reason to burden the Italian people with this mess – they voted to stop this. Elections ought to matter. Send these people – orphans and all – back to the countries they came from. Only they can sort out the mess they left at home. There is a pattern here – wreck your country or stand by and watch as your fellow countrymen do so and then hop on a ship to some other country where you can do the same until you actually run out of countries to infest. These people are like locusts. They descend on a country, feed on it until it is defunct and then move on to the next one. The cycle never ends until there is no place left to go. Stop it now. It should have been stopped immediately. Refugees should be considered case by case, individual by individual. The whole idea of this is a fraud when people who truly are persecuted don’t get a look in. Remember Asia Bibi? If she is not a refugee worthy of asylum, NO ONE is.

        • Roger Woodhouse says

          Jan 6, 2019 at 4:07 am

          The whole immigration crises has been brought about by people who have no real steak in their countries future.Other supporters of these policies do so not for love of these people but to make virtue signals to fellow citizens with no thought to the consequences of this open door policy.People who have little or no allegiance to their own country due to years of liberal anti white brainwashing in our schools and universities.They themselves are usually from priveledged backgrounds highly ‘educated’but devoid of sense.Like the radical socialists of the 1970s who were hell bent on destroying capitalism these misguided fools are playing a far more serious game.This one will end on a far more serious note and with deadly consequences for all

    • James Pierce says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 9:32 pm

      The Netherlands is nearly 1400 miles and several countries away from the Mediterranean Sea. Why on earth should they be expected to take in any refugees pulled in from there?

      • Tgiya says

        Jan 5, 2019 at 1:14 pm

        Because the white-liberal Northern European countries constantly play the political correct card that they love Muslims and dark-skinned migrants and encourage them to migrate, but that’s only a facade, they don’t want them to leave the Mediterranean countries where they arrive. And the ones that are in their countries, they ignore and treat them like they don’t exist. The reality is, godless, socialist, ‘multi-cultural’ countries have no soul and no future. During a traditional Catholic pilgrimage in France, some young Muslims saw the group of pilgrims and were interested in what they were doing and walked with the group. The point being, a culture that wants to erase its past has no roots and nothing substantial to offer, I met an Egyptian in Maestricht and he was overjoyed to see Americans walk into the bar because the Dutch obviously didn’t communicate with him or even each other. A Dutch girl walked into the bar with her forehead bleeding and nobody paid attention to her, it was just a weird experience, you even had migrants walking in procession across a bridge dressed in black and beating drums, (and this was in 1999), protesting, so you got the idea that the white liberals and the migrants really didn’t get on so well. I’m not saying that you need to blame white people, but the reality is that white liberals are quite hypocritical and have nothing to offer besides handouts.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 3:41 am

      Francis wants them ! (Except for Asia Bibi. But she is a Christian.)

  2. brane pilot says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:23 am

    The solution to the Migrant Problem in Europe is simple.
    Those charged with crimes are deported. Any crime. Spitting on the sidewalk. Jaywalking. Terrorism.
    Those who cannot remember what country they came from can rot in jail until their memory improves or they die of old age.
    Countries who will not take their citizens back will be economically strangled and no visas will be issued for any reason until their policies come back in line.
    SImple. Peaceful. Painless.
    Impossible.

    • RonaldB says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 11:42 am

      I think you’re on the right track.

      Rather than put immigrants who have destroyed their identity papers in jail, make an agreement with some third-world despot that he will accept these immigrants for an agreed-on per-capita fee. The migrant will then be given a few thousand Euro and possibly a small side arm, and dumped on the shore. Israel has basically pioneered this practice. It’s expensive to maintain someone in jail.

      Following the practice of Italy, the ships used to transport migrants should not only be impounded or refused entry, but the crew charged with people-trafficking. NGOs like Advocates Abroad, engaged in encouraging migrants and coaching them to lie about their situations, should be considered as, and charged as, racketeering organizations.

      The use of unaccompanied minors is orchestrated to appeal to natural female sympathy. The migrants from Central America at the US borders are often found to have unrelated children, which improve their chances of being considered for family asylum. I’d be just as happy if the crews charged with people-trafficking are put away for life, but if for some reason, they aren’t, I’d add the charge of trafficking minors for those transporting unaccompanied minors.

      • Roger Woodhouse says

        Jan 6, 2019 at 4:26 am

        All very sound suggestion as to how the problem can be solved but without laws being passed and enacted all futile.Present governments in Europe are not up to the job and must be replaced.As we dont do ‘revolutions’anymore its up to the people to ‘vote’them out via the ballot box.A most unlikely scenario Im afraid as the system is heavily geared toward the status quo.(see Brexit).No.Europe is finished.There will be insurrection in about ten years time when the effects of Islamisation is hitting home and the people (belatedly)are woken.Thousands will die but once again Islam will be booted out and once more put back in its box for another 100 years.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 3:44 am

      And politically incorrect !

  3. Dan says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:39 am

    What?
    A country wants to control it’s borders and decide who enters?
    Why that’s preposterous!
    Inconceivable even! (Add lisp.) (Or is it lithp?)

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:43 am

    The Euro-elites must live in upscale enclaves where they never see the street thugs, hoodlums and barbarians who beat Muslim women and rape kafirs. They are cocooned away from such daily interactions that ordinary Europeans endure on the bus, metro and street. Ordinary people see very clearly that Muslims don’t want to blend in, join in or assimilate in with Europeans, but maintain their segregation in ghettoes and no-go zones. It’s the ordinary Europeans and not the elites who bear the burden of the crime and terrorism. They should not be asked to abandon their national cultures of hundreds of years, because the elites are playing at social engineering the Europeans out of existence.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 3:45 am

      Thank You Mortimer !

  5. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:57 am

    A Commission spokeswoman said: “More solidarity of all member states is needed and the situation shows once again, as we have said many times, that predictable and sustainable solutions for disembarkation and allocation is urgently needed in the Mediterranean.”

    —

    “More solidarity of all member states is needed” – I couldn’t agree more, madam. But don’t worry. Netherlands is not alone. There’s also Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, and if you’re lucky, soon Belgium itself. But you’re absolutely right: “More solidarity of all member states is needed.”

    And on your second point, “predictable and sustainable solutions for disembarkation and allocation is urgently needed in the Mediterranean,” here, too, I must agree with you 100%, anywhere from Tangier to Alexandria (except Ceuta and Melilla, of course).

  6. Tom says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    It’s OK Trudeau will volunteer Canada to take them.

    Canada is becoming known as the dumping ground for the worlds worst and thanks to Trudeau and his idiotic tweet inviting the world to come to Canada and he saying that Canada must lead the world in taking migrants, after he signed that catastrophic UN compact on Immigration, Canadians are going to be stuck with multi billion dollars of debt to look after these leeches.

    Nationalists must unite in their opposition to mass migration and elect politicians who are not afraid to say NO to mass migration and to bring sanity back into our immigration systems. We need the best and brightest folks from around the world as immigrants, we don’t need the least intelligent or skilled that other countries want to rid themselves of and who are just a financial burden on host countries.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 5:45 pm

      Tom,

      Over time, mass Muslim migration to Canada will present a threat to the United States perhaps worse than the threat illegal migrant/narcotic from our southern border with Mexico.

  7. bat 21 says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    The other potential threat by allowing open borders/mass migration that is under the radar is the potential for a health crisis. TB, Ebola, Meningitis, just to name a few are common place in these third world countries and the last thing we need is an epidemic created by tens of thousands of unvaccinated migrants streaming across the borders. Nightmare waiting to happen!

    • JM says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 12:25 pm

      Yes, that is a good point. It is not just the diseases you mention but also others which doctors in the EU are not even able to easily diagnose or treat, given that they are illnesses which were eradicated from Europe many generations ago but which are now showing up in some migrants from the ME. It is extremely reckless of our governments to expose us not only to violence from these people but also to new communicable diseases.

  8. celia1000 says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 2:33 pm

    The EU, UN, US, Canada, and Australia should work on a new policy. No more immigration unless it’s for highly-trained people with jobs already lined up, when there aren’t enough native people available to fill the jobs. Work on an improved system of refugee camps as near their original homes as possible, where far more could be served for the money it costs to support one immigrant. Offer courses there to teach skills needed to make money, grow food, conserve the environment, set up modern systems to provide clean water and sewage systems, and limit population growth. Maybe courses in Christian ethics as well where it was safe to do so.

    • katherine says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 6:51 pm

      Simple to implement – IF these governments have full control of their nations. Look at China, Japan, Myanmar, Czech-Slovak-Hungary, Israel, Saudi, UAE, Singapore, and Vietnam.

      The UN is a near-useless entity that is wagged by the OIC with help from so-called Non-aligned members.

      The EU is a pseudo-dictatorship org controlled by neo-Nazies who see Islamic Theocracy as the key to a future of absolute Totalitarian control of the world.

      In the US the Leftist Islamic movement has substantial control over the Media, Education, Finance and Civil Service after decades of communist subversion – they even threaten the patriotic faction including the President, always clamouring for his impeachment. Their primary target — the American Constitution to replace it with Sharia.

      Canada has become a classic case of voter ignorance, having disposed of a conservative defender of the nation because he was old and boring, just to elect a young, handsome Islamic-leaning, pro-gay ignoramus who irresponsibly opened the Gates of Hell to Canada.

      Australians similarly have this same death wish to welcome the agents of mass destruction, portraying them as the persecuted adherents of a peacefull religion. This is again the result of decades of Leftist indoctrination. The ruling faction in Ozzie has only marginal support and is normally too afraid of taking drastic action wrt immigrant policies.

      Putin in Russia meanwhile is simply posturing to be Christian and impartial but is officially, inexplicably protecting the Koran from criticism by his own administration.

      Ultimately a Globalist Pope – leftist infiltrator of the RC Church – joins in the game by preaching universal acceptance of Islam as the equivalent of Christianity – totally and willfully blind to the slaughter and enslavement of Christians and non-Muslims all over the globe.

      So there you have it — the sorry state of the blinkered free world.

      • JM says

        Jan 5, 2019 at 12:27 pm

        All true. Good post.

  9. Salome says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    How many of the four unaccompanied children have long beards and deep voices?

    • JM says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 12:28 pm

      Only the girls! (tee, hee!)

      • LR says

        Jan 7, 2019 at 6:25 pm

        Haha…

  10. Anon. says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    Their “most-secret and eyes-only” unbiased, never to be made publicly available and accurate social survey data has shown them the indigenous population is on the edge of exploding.

    They’ll just put more weight on the pressure cooker (via the security apparatus) though because nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of their agenda.

    Ah well, too late for a soft landing now.

    “There may be trouble ahead……” Said to the tunes of Fred Astaire.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    EU: Bitter row escalates over Netherlands’ refusal to take in migrants
    ………………………..

    Good to see some sanity from the Netherlands–and Italy, Spain, and Malta. I hope other European nations follow.

  12. Dawne says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    The EU says “predictable and sustainable solutions for disembarkation and allocation is urgently needed in the Mediterranean.” What is needed is so blindingly obvious – Official boats must turn the people trafficker boats back to where they came from. NGOs must be banned from operating and intercepted if they defy this ban. NGO boats then should be impounded and destroyed and the crew arrested for complicity with people trafficking. We need to get very tough or this is going to get even worse.

  13. John says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 1:51 am

    moslem belong in a 3rd world moslem nation, send them There

  14. Meturaf says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 3:32 am

    Cows Escaped–>Barn door Closed.

  15. Terra Nova says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 4:18 am

    I was amazed yesterday, I watched that ship with the immigrants on TV and there was one immigrant who was stating, I think for the whole group: ” We paid money to come here to Europe, we suffered on this trip, and now, after all this, we are not welcome And now you don’t want us? That was the worst thing,, but it got my attention that he was bringing it like they did go on that boat and payed all that money and were doing it all for us, like they went trough all of this, for us, we should be grateful that they all are coming over, just for us amazing, it must come from arrogance, superiority feelings
    or plain stupidity, but in the meantime, INCH BY INCH. Stay vigilant and be aware of everything as much as possible, inform yourselves.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 6, 2019 at 3:56 pm

      Why the West Must End Democracy

  16. stephen burgess says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 5:18 am

    TAKE THEM BACK FROM WHENCE THEY CAME, OR THE LEFT WING FOOLS THAT PICK THEM UP SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL THEIR NEEDS AND UPKEEP,THESE DO GOOD IDIOTS ARE HALF THE PROBLEM.

  17. pulltops says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 9:04 am

    There needs to be a population increase in Europe and to do this the younger generation needs to start families.

  18. Peter says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 9:29 am

    Latest thing I read is that we (the Dutch) are going to accept some of these passengers! But in the same time it is being said that they will face the normal asylumprocedures and when they would come from “save-country’s” they will be send back!!! (But to be honoust,…..almost no one from a save country is being deported because they instantly disappear in the illegal sphere’s)

    • JM says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 12:34 pm

      True, Peter. We have the same problem in the UK. It is one thing for the government to say that these people are going to be sent back to “safe” countries but quite another to ensure that they DO get sent there. Mostly, they never leave the Netherlands, the UK or wherever else they are but simply disappear into the black economy…

  19. Pam Dice says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 9:57 am

    We must address Muslim and African breeding practices. The comments are much too polite. Western Civilization will not last the century if we continue to endure wave after wave.

    Take a page from the Romans – they understood war and defense. During the Punic wars, Romans were merciless. If you expect to win in in war, you kill every child – erase the memory of the invading population. You kill the women, castrate the men – then salt the earth they depend upon….

    Or you perish. I fear the West will be confined to Central and Eastern Europe – where populations understand the stakes. American Constitutional governance will give too many protections to invaders.

    If we are giving unaccompanied minors “care” …. we are doomed.

  20. james reid says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    Holland should tell the EU to “stuff it”! Why not send them to Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia? Plenty of space out there – they won’t view the host country’s people as simple “prey”, because the hosts are of an alien inferior, culture. Saudi has a well equipped refugee camp, can take in 2million souls, no problem, yet has NO occupants! Been established for 2years, or so by now. It’s long overdue for other people to view the West as a “soft touch”.

    • katherine says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 5:42 pm

      These invaders only want to land in Europe and N. America because the irresponsible governments there grant them massive welfare benefits and undeserved citizenship. Housing and supremacy rights over the locals too.

      Someone should report on another refugee stream of Jews leaving Europe – they are heading for a warzone called Isael with a very harsh climate – and yes, their dessert is blooming against all odds.

      The Morrocan king had often rued the emigation of productive Shephardic Jews from Morroco since the creation of Israel. Perhaps he should have granted them an autonomous safe territory of Spanish Sahara with Israeli defense in place.

      After a few decades the Muslim refugees passing through, towards Europe, will see what they’ve been missing.

      Preposterous suggestion perhaps but you get the drift.

  21. Jack Holan says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    Why would the Netherlands apologize for having Intelligence and foresight?

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