Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Die Welt- Bundeswehr Called Up to Deal With Refugee Crisis

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Die Welt- Bundeswehr Called Up to Deal With Refugee Crisis

A word splits the policy: mass migration. Will Germany really overrun? Can be integrated in a high speed almost a million asylum seekers? One thing is certain: state and local governments encounter in crisis management to their limits. Many people wonder whether the emergencies are ever to be faced. More and more often it comes in and before lodging riots.

In order to alleviate the crisis, the army now turns on. "Every day, a new applications and are tested with high pressure," Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) told the "Welt am Sonntag". "This exceptional situation requires a joint effort." So far, the army has created according to the Ministry in 18 barracks space for refugees, helped in the establishment of tented accommodation and parked more than 100 soldiers for faster processing of applications for asylum to the Federal Office for Migration. "The Bundeswehr is of course continue to support in the context of assistance and jump in with, if we can help, and capacity is available," announced von der Leyen. The unprecedented wave of refugees place all enormous challenges - from the municipalities, via federal and state governments to the European Union.

Juncker reminded of European treaties

The Greens expect that the strong inflow of refugees to Germany will continue unabated in the coming years. "We have to prepare ourselves that the numbers in the next few years not be smaller. That would hide irresponsible and naïve", the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Greens, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who told "Welt am Sonntag".

In those countries it ferments: "Our resources are exceeded by far!" Göring-Eckardt warns fellow party member Dieter Lauinger, Thuringian Minister of migration, justice and consumer protection. The federal government must finally support of "its bleachers down" and the country stronger financially.

The refugee crisis is now not only German politicians in city, state and federal governments in breathing, they also engaged the political leadership in Europe."We have laid down in Europe, the highest asylum standards in the world. That's in our laws and agreements. However, I am worried that this is less and less anchored in our hearts!", The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker told , the "Welt am Sonntag".

It prepare him worry if politicians "from the far right and far left nourish a populism which produces only resentment, but no solutions." Hate speech and careless statements would bring the freedom to travel within the Schengen area in danger. No EU Member State can alone regulate migration. "We need a strong European approach. And now!"