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Europe
Germany stops accepting refugees over coronavirus
2020-03-20
[DW] The EU has taken drastic action to attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, effectively shutting borders to non-citizens. Germany will stop taking in refugees, including thousands stranded at the Ottoman Turkish-Greek border.

Germany put on hold a refugee pact with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and will no longer accept refugees from any country, as the EU effectively shuts its borders to non-EU citizens to curb the spread of coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday.

The so-called resettlement program between Turkey and Germany will be put on hold indefinitely. Thousands of migrants colonists have been gathered at the Turkey-EU border since February when Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
announced the border was open.

The programs have been halted owing to "restrictions on travel" because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a government front man told the Funke media group. The programs will resume "when possible."

Under the program, Germany has accepted around 5,000 refugees since 2012.

The announcement comes a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
insisted that a separate EU-Turkey refugee deal, under which Germany pays Turkey to host refugees, was still intact.

For thousands of refugees living in unsanitary conditions in camps in Turkey and Greece, the outcome of a coronavirus outbreak could be disastrous, humanitarian groups warned.

More than 40,000 refugees are currently spread among five camps on Greek islands, according to Oxfam.

"People fleeing war and persecution are trapped in Greece without sufficient food, clean water or healthcare," the charity wrote on Twitter.

Germany will still accept refugee children in need from camps despite border closures. Chancellor Merkel also promised Germany would do more to help those refugees still stranded there following a video conference with Turkey’s Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Posted by:trailing wife

#12  They're already in border camps, so it's 'Culling the Heard'.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-20 17:26  

#11  What a Trumpish thing to do.
Posted by: bbrewer126   2020-03-20 15:12  

#10  as we call it around my house "ChiVi"
ChiVi ChiVi Bang Bang
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-20 14:20  

#9  I like to call it the Pelosi-Schiff death plague. She's owned by the Chinese and he's her tool. So I give all blame to them.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-03-20 14:13  

#8  Islam virus gladly accepted. SARS-2 not.
Posted by: KBK   2020-03-20 14:00  

#7  As TW pointed out, this is a visit (relatively mild) from The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-20 11:37  

#6  or as we call it around my house "ChiVi"
Posted by: Warthog   2020-03-20 09:49  

#5  Chinavirus? [sputter] You can't say that! [cough, cough] It's RAYCISS!

Ima so stealing that!
Posted by: Bobby   2020-03-20 09:14  

#4  If all the propaganda of the past several years is to be believed, gut Chermans should be more at risk for psychic pain from being mean to foreigners than from Chinavirus.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-03-20 06:55  

#3  Ima have a Corona Extra T-shirt I'm wearing all day today - bet they'll love me now!
Posted by: Raj   2020-03-20 06:07  

#2  Extinction Rebellion Hopes To Move Climate Activism Online In Wake Of Coronavirus
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-20 06:05  

#1  Corona crisis provides a lot of folks with an opportunity to get down from their high horse without losing face.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-20 05:51  

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