Germany and France pressed the rest of Europe to end squabbling over its exploding migration crisis that is sowing new political divisions across the Continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande called for a burden-sharing system to distribute across the European Union the swelling numbers of people arriving from violent regions in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Their call for action came as hundreds of migrants faced off with Hungarian police and after a photograph of a Syrian boy lying dead on the beach in Turkey, drowned trying to reach a Greek island, appeared on the front pages of newspapers across Europe. The image sparked outrage at what critics say is the European Union’s timid response to the crisis.
“It’s a tragedy,” Mr. Hollande said of the boy’s death, “but it’s also an appeal to the European conscience.”
Europe in 2015 faces the same issues they did in 1935. And once again they will not face the core problem. Unfortunately we aren’t much better; but until we get rid of ISIS and radical Islam there will be no solution to the problem.
They take in all these migrants, but they do not ask them to learn the local language, to work instead of living on welfare, and to accept the legal systems of their new home countries. Then they are shocked at the results. Much of Europe, in fact, doesn’t have jobs available for these people. It makes no sense.
“And above all let care be scrupulously shown in receiving the poor and strangers; for in them specially is Christ received.” St. Benedict, Patron Saint of Europe.