fourmummy If a country was an individual who allowed strangers to walk into his/her home, use all mod cons, then complain that the woman of the house should not be speaking to him the stranger (because I am man), complain the TV was not large enough - and if this pattern of generosity kept repeating in an individual's life, he/she would be seen either as someone with terrible judgement who doesnt learn from experience, low IQ or someone with a psychological problem.
That's how I view all the EU countries, as well as Norway & Finland who I thought had more sense. They are not EU and did not have to allow so many migrants to settle in their countries.
Dont we all understand Breivik's pov, just a little? It seems no one is listening and the great & the good who run countries appear to be impervious to what they have allowed to happen to their grandchildren's generation.
With that in mind, I can only conclude that the leaders of the EU nations are not really the leaders at all. Someone on the last thread did say that Merkel's arm was twisted. If this is so, then every nation has been leaned on.
As Judge Judy says, If it doesnt make sense then it's usually not true. Merkel said that Germany's birth rate is so low that there are insufficient workers to properly fund the next pension pot. That is correct for the ethnic German but there are a signficant number of naturalised Turks (the old guest workers from the 1980s), Algerians and other N.Africans - these groups' birth rates are higher than ethnic Germans and they are now 2nd or 3rd generation.
Merkel also argues that it is Germany's "moral" duty to take in ME migrants. But why did she not take those well educated Greeks who are willing to transplant themselves to Germany to work and support their relatives back in Greece? These people have skills, professional and personal, they may even speak English and German well, and they are not politically hostile. The migrants that Merkel let in dont even have the courtesy to hide their contempt for Europe.