Europe is fevering

The last days violent incidents have become more frequent from the side of refugees immigrants from Middle Eastern countries.

Just 2 days ago, 15 year-old migrant suspected for murder of 22 – year old worker of the center for for refugees was arrested. In regard to the information of European Mass Media resource, citizens of Sweden were shocked. The crime was committed not far from the city Gothenburg and it was so resonant that the Prime-Minister of the country visited the place of crime. He pointed out that more and more Swedes start fearing such neighborhood with immigrants, and they are afraid of the assaults from their side. Sweden is the second country of the EU after Germany by the number of refugees accepted for the last year. Another accident (a riot in a shelter for refugees in the city of Vasteras), was hidden by the Sweden police more than a week. Then, in the course of activities on immigrants’ resettlement the police officer hardly suffered. Swedish MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) warns and asks to be vigilant in the area of the railway station in Stockholm. Hundreds of uncontrolled teenagers and men accommodated in the territory close to the railway. These people left the camp willfully.

Now the countries on the periphery of the EU that have been already experiencing economic difficulties faced the fact that more powerful states require them to clean up the mess at the border and stop the flow of refugees. For instance, government of Alexis Tsipras was demanded months to regain control of its borders within three months, and register people seeking shelter, who arrive from Turkey, and tens of thousands of people, otherwise ” will be asked” to leave the Schengen area (La Republica).. It threatens a humanitarian crisis, because refugees, in fact, will get entrapped, and Greek authorities, as a result of the weakness of the economy, simply will not be able to cope with so many people. The president of Greece expressed absolutely fair statement ‘I feel a strong concern that the Turkish smugglers transporting people would receive support from the authorities. First of all port authorities look like that they know nothing’.

Indeed, looking at this living river of people to arrange in the EU through Turkey, one can conclude that it punishes European states, because after 60 years since the signing of the notorious “Association” it has not accepted into the ranks of the European Union.

It is necessary to understand for EU countries what to do further and to take appropriate decisions.

For example the Netherlands Minister for Migration Klaas Diykhof said the 25^th of January ‘Member states invited the [European] Commission to prepare the legal and practical basis for the continuance of temporary border measures through Article 26’. The extension term of the border control can reach 2 years. EU Member States agree that to destroy the Schengen area – is not the way, however, “self comes first”. France closed borders, having afraid of new terroristic attacks, Germany did the same to get ability to cope with politic crisis inside of the state, Austria has the best financial state to spend money on immigrants, small Austria with population 9 million people has already received 150 thousand of 150 hundred request refugee status and it is a leader in number of immigrants for capita. There are countries, authorities of which initially said that it is not their problem and they are not ready to accept refugees from various countries (Poland, Bulgaria).

All this brings instability within EU, both in political and economical attitude; it is at hand to the USA. Barak Obama’s response to the petition appeared on the site of the White House (Vzgliad,) addressed to authorities to share the burden of European countries and to accept as more refugees as possible (that received 60 000 signatures) ordered to accept 10 000 immigrants text year. It had been ordered before events in Paris on 13^th November 2015 happened, 27 governors announced after the tragedy that their states would not accept refugees. The consequences of the war unleashed by his administration do not make him to worry, people are suffering there, behind the ocean, and his country does not care about this.

Ukrainian politicians said not long time ago that if country wanted to join EU, would be necessary to lend “helping hand”, to take the initiative and to accept refugees. ‘Ukrainian part announces about readiness to help to Europe in solution of migration crisis and to accept part of refugees’, it was announced in the press-service of Migration service of Ukraine.

I can hardly imagine how dying Ukrainian economy would be able to cope with thousands of Syrian refugees.

They do not know what to do with their refugees and how to support them.

Georgy Morozov, editor-in-chief of Novorossia Today

Translated into English by Nataliya Sinyavskaya