If you follow German news, there's an interesting twist to the sea rescue business. A couple of countries within the EU came yesterday to an agreement.
Fourteen EU countries said that they would accept some distribution of rescued migrants from the Med. The countries? Well....in public, it was listed as Finland, Croatia, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Germany, and 'others'. Why 'others'? That wasn't clearly laid out. Some of the details might involve a limit, and these are still details to be worked out.
So what will happen here is that a distribution will occur out of Italian refugee camps. A bus will pull up at x-camp, and forty-odd folks will board to x-country. The refugee might be asking which country.....because they really don't want to go over this country or that country.....but in this case, there's no choice.
Will they accept this 'busing'? I have some doubts that it'll be fully accepted. You may wake up in four months to realize that the 200-odd migrants brought to Portugal have mostly up and left (for Germany). Will they be bused back? Unknown.
This is rarely brought up in the news media, but if you read through migrant chatter....they typically want to resettle in France, Germany, or the UK.
Why only fourteen out of the twenty-eight EU members? No one speaks to this part of the discussion. My guess would center on most wanting a evaluation process and the German developed program here is to accept them....period.
The odds that rescues and more incoming folks will occur? Oh.....it's up around 100-percent.
But let's be honest....this gets these people out of the temp Italian camp, and into some new more positive situation....even if they don't want to be in Finland because of the harsh winters.
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