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Senior UN official: Syrian war to displace one million more people this year
More migrants drown as boats capsize off Greek coast
Munich at limit of capacity amid refugee surge: police
Germany has been viewed as a leader on Europe’s worst refugee crisis for 70 years, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s expectation that the country will take in 800,000 this year alone.”
However, the move appears to have backfired as German towns struggle to process the unprecedented number of arrivals.
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said: “For this weekend alone we have put 4,000 soldiers on standby.”
He added that the troops would be able “to pitch in in an emergency”.
Putting Germany’s generosity, which just ended in perspective, “More migrants have arrived at Munich’s train station since the start of September than in the whole of 2014.”
The good news for Germany is that at least the tens of thousands of Muslims migrants will have a place to pray: just as “generously” Saudi Arabia – in lieu of actually accepting any asylum seekers – offered to help Germany cope by building at least 200 mosques. The Gulf state said it would build one mosque for every 100 Middle Eastern refugees who entered Germany. It will be busy building a lot of mosques.
The bad news for Germany is that not only will the migrant situation not improve any time soon, but it is now in a lose-lose situation, with the facade of its former faux generosity crumbling, just as countless more migrants are set to lose their lives on their way to a promised land that no longer is.
And confirming just that, moments ago Xinhua reported that 28 migrants were killed as a boat capsized off Greece.
More Immigrants drown as boats capsize off Greek coast
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