This morning, it's hyped up in the German news media that another rescue vessel ('Alan Kurdi') has rescued migrants from the Med, and need to drop them at some European port. The Italians? They made it kinda clear that it won't happen at Lampedusa. So the German flagged vessel is heading to Malta (probably about 75 miles east of Lampedusa). The number of migrants? Journalists say 65.
This has turned into a theatrical 'saga', with pro-rescue folks, and anti-migration folks both hyped up. The EU could probably say a few things and get all huffed-up, but in terms of solving this, it's a virtual zero. You can't force the 28 member states into some month-by-month distribution of rescued migrants. At this point, it's obvious that three states absolutely won't accept any distribution, and some additional countries would want a review of each person with some denial possibility existing.
The added problem, after you start pondering over the whole discussion....is that various countries are now on the plus-up situation for migrants....meaning people want to head toward that country. While almost half of the EU-countries are on a minus-down situation, with virtually no migrants desiring placement in those countries. The journalists often miss that point in telling the stories. Some countries have zero interest in taking a marginally educated guy....who'd you have to get through some intense language course, and then some job-training deal....meaning two to three years of sponsorship.
Right now, I'd put this as a top ten issue brewing in Germany....but mostly because of television news hype. If you went to a typical working-class German....it just doesn't rate in his top twenty issues (especially with all the added taxation chatter going on).
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