As the smoke clears today over Moria (the refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece)....some of the German decisions (by the Chancellor and coalition) are appearing.
Focus discussed some of the current things to happen.
Chancellor Merkel and Seehofer (the Interior Minister)....are talking over the idea that Germany will take around 1,500 additional refugees from the burned-out camp....saying that it'll be the ones with families and those with serious conditions.
One problem with this discussion....it hasn't been agreed upon by the coalition partner (the SPD Party). My humble guess is that they return walk to the table and say nothing less than 6,000 in number. A negotiation will take place and by Thursday....the number will be 4k to 5k in refugees.
The new camp idea? Proceeding ahead, and it appears that the EU will rebuild the camp, in a more modern way. The EU is also saying it'll run/fund the camp (not the Greeks).
If the French and a few more countries go into this deal....you might see the bulk (maybe 10k of them removed from the island) and the remainder might be strictly young men by themselves.
Negativity over more refugees coming into Germany? Over the past three years, they've gone back to the regular number of 200k to 250k asylum seekers (which as the average number before 2013). If this situation with the Moria crowd stayed at around 5k, and they kept the incoming crowd at 500 to 1k a week....without a lot of PR by the public TV media....maybe the AfD crowd wouldn't gain much traction or project much negativity. It probably would help if they brought only women, or families, and didn't bring in a bunch of young men by themselves.
Curiously, all of this has relieved the Chancellor of making decisions over the Russian poisoning or the natural gas pipeline. It also stalled any action by Germany on the Greece and Turkey friction going on. And it chilled the reaction by the Chancellor over the Belarus situation.
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