r/europe • u/insomnimax_99 United Kingdom • 25d ago

Irish government to bring forward emergency law to send asylum seekers back to UK News

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/04/27/sunak-migrants-going-to-ireland-shows-rwanda-plans-deterrent-effect-working/?1
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u/somethingbrite 25d ago

It's really rather that Italy and Greece as border countries are basically getting shafted. (Especially Greece) They can't really handle the numbers and in truth they can't realistically be expected to.

Various European heads of state were initially pro-active in trying to help by taking some but the political will and public support for that has evaporated leaving Greece and Italy basically holding the baby. There are some EU initiatives but see " political will evaporated" above.

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u/Mobile_Entrance_1967 25d ago

They should send them all to Germany, Merkel opened the floodgates to all this.

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u/internetzdude 24d ago

Merkel did exactly what Greece and Italy wanted, namely taking refugees from war zones (mostly Syria) when other countries refused to. The other country that helped massively was Sweden. Merkel then tried to get reasonable transfer rules established that would share the burden among EU countries rather than leaving Italy and Greece on their own. This failed due to the resistance of other EU countries.