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French
PM says Merkel’s migration policy ‘unsustainable’
By PAUL DALLISON
2/12/16, 6:36 PM CET Updated 2/13/16, 6:24 AM CET
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s open doors migration policy is not sustainable in
the long run, Manuel Valls, France’s prime minister, said.
“This policy,
which is justified temporarily, is unsustainable in the long term,”
Valls told German regional media group Funke in an interview to be
published Saturday.
“We have to say
this clearly: Europe cannot take in all migrants from Syria, Iraq or
Africa. It has to regain control over its borders, over its migration
or asylum policies,” said Valls, before heading to the Munich
Security Conference.
Valls’ criticism
came a day after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described
Merkel’s migration policy as “stupid.”
Merkel is under
pressure on the home front too. In a poll for public broadcaster ARD
and the newspaper Die Welt, released on Wednesday night, 46 percent
of respondents said they were satisfied with Merkel’s performance —
down from 75 percent less than a year ago, in April 2015.
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Dmitry
Medvedev: Angela Merkel’s refugee policy is ‘simply stupid’
By CYNTHIA KROET
2/12/16, 8:48 AM CET
Russia’s
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that everything about
the EU’s migration policy is “terrible.”
“It is just stupid
to open the European doors and invite everyone that wants to come to
Europe”, Medvedev told the newspaper Handelsblatt in a direct
attack on Angela Merkel’s “open-door” refugee policy.
Merkel’s
immigration policy has drawn criticism about the country’s ability
to integrate the nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers who entered
Germany in 2015.
Medvedev said that
allowing refugees to enter the country without controlling them is a
security risk.
“Some of these
people — and it’s not just a few strange individuals or utter
scoundrels, but hundreds and possibly thousands — are entering
Europe as potential time bombs, and they will fulfil their missions
as robots when they are told to,” Medvedev said.
He also warned for
the risk of a possible “new world war” if Arab forces entered the
Syrian war. When asked about proposals by some Arab countries to
enter the conflict under a U.S. command, Medvedev said, “that would
be bad because ground offensives usually lead to wars becoming
permanent”.
At the Munich
Security Council on Thursday Russia and the U.S. agreed to try to
implement a nationwide cease-fire in Syria in one week. The agreement
still needs to be confirmed by the Syrian government and the
opposition.
Authors:
Cynthia Kroet
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