Migrant Trains Reach Germany As EU Asylum System Creaks

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:58pm EDT

Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU.

As thousands of men, women and children - many fleeing Syria's civil war - continued to arrive from the east, authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on towards Germany, the favored destination for many.

The influx is a crisis for the European Union, which has eliminated border controls between 26 "Schengen area" states but requires asylum seekers to apply in the first EU country they reach - something that is often ignored as migrants race from the fringes of the bloc to its more prosperous heart.

In line with EU rules, an Austrian police spokesman said only those who had not already requested asylum in Hungary would be allowed through - but the sheer pressure of numbers prevailed, and trains were allowed to move on.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/31/us-europe-migrants-idUSKCN0R01IV20150831

[EL34x4]

1. This is going to overwhelm Europe

Eventually there's going to be a backlash. It's not going to be pretty.

[Purveyor]

2. More 'fringe benefits' of the West breaking the Middle East. eom

[pampango]

4. There is already a 'backlash'. The far right has been burning refugee centers in Germany.

The far-right political parties have been gaining strength by promoting anti-immigrant, anti-refugee policies.

And it is not going to 'overwhelm Europe'. The population of Europe is over 500 million. They can handle it if liberals remain in control of policy.

[jtuck004]

3. They thought refugees fleeing death would rush to stand in line? n/t