RE: Merkel will pay migrants to leave Germany
February 11, 2017 at 5:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2017 at 5:40 pm by Redoubtable.)
(February 11, 2017 at 5:32 pm)Alex K Wrote:(February 11, 2017 at 5:23 pm)Redoubtable Wrote: Merkel screwed up.
One of the major problems with what she did was that she's accepting all of these refugees/migrants under the pretense that the pressure on Germany will be relieved when other EU nations accept their share of these people. The problem is, with freedom of movement, these people aren't going to stay in Hungary or Greece, or Poland. At the first opportunity they will ditch what they deem the unsatisfactory countries they are placed in and try to get into Germany or other EU countries with better opportunities.
If I'm not completely misremembering, refugees don't enjoy freedom of movement between EU member states.
Not yet. But the ideal situation is that they become permanent residents and eventually citizens of their placement countries, no one wants them to remain in limbo for the rest of their lives. Once they're citizens however, they enjoy freedom of movement in the EU countries that have it. So if they are settled in Poland and become Polish citizens, they are entitled to go to any other EU country that has freedom of movement. Moreover, right now there doesn't seem to be anything stopping refugees or migrants from being sent to Hungary, then immediately doing a 180 and going back to Germany with a new fake name until they get accepted for asylum there as opposed to a country they don't want to go to.
