I need to get some other writing done at my other blog, but this morning refugee stories keep coming. I’ve been reporting the problems front-line nations like Italy and Malta are having with all those North African men leaving that continent on boats and trying to reach Europe. Now here is a story from the Irish Times about how Italian leaders are saying if we can’t get help with the refugee crisis then why bother being in the European Union.
“Italy has been left alone,” its interior minister Roberto Maroni said. “I wonder if it makes sense to continue to be part of the European Union in this situation.”
Yes Italy! Save yourselves, get out of the EU!
Meanwhile Ireland says it might take some political refugees:
The EU authorities are pressing other member states to help Malta deal with 1,000 Libyans who have arrived there since the uprising began against Muammar Gadafy.
“They’re political refugees from Libya,” Mr Shatter [Ireland’s Minister for Justice] said.
“In the context of Malta, the issue is: are there a small number of people that we can accommodate in solidarity with Malta bearing in mind that other European countries are willing to do so?”
He declined to say how many people the Government might take in but noted that Germany, whose population is 20 times greater than Ireland’s, has pledged to take 100 individuals and said an offer from a small country would be proportionate to the German offer.
Oh well, say good-bye to Ireland too—a little country that has already taken too many Somali and Rohingya Muslims. What’s a few more Muslims, eh.
And US readers, be watchful of any news about the US airlifting Libyans to America, here.