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The al-mustaminun, the asylum seeker, shall not carry weapons.

“The massive arrival of refugees in Europe has opened the eyes of this very rich part of the world to the fact that refugees have massive needs that are not met,” said the new head of UN Refugee Agency Filippo Grandi.

While acknowledging the record number of refugees across the globe and particularly the record influx seen in the EU, Grandi emphasized that “the rest of the world has a bigger burden.”

“Europe traditionally has been a continent that has told other countries what to do in terms of asylum, has asked countries outside Europe to take refugees,” he said.

“The EU is struggling with an equal sharing of the burden of refugees within the Union, within the continent,” he said highlighting that less than 10 percent of the world’s refugees are actually in Europe. In 2015 some 1,004,356 migrants reached Europe, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

“If Europe starts setting limits, pushing back, erecting barriers, being hostile, the rest of the world will follow,” Grandi said.

Last year saw more than 3,770 migrants and refugees lose their lives in the Mediterranean as they made the perilous journey from North Africa to Europe.

Most of those deaths occurred along a dangerous central Mediterranean route used by smugglers operating out of Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

21 Jan 2016, Refugee panic: The European project can die, not in decades or years but very fast, if we are unable to face up to the security challenge.” EU leaders turn on one another as new wave of migrants prepares to hit Europe. Weeks remain before warmer weather reactivates the trails that brought over 1 million migrants into the EU last year. With officials unable to agree on a common policy, their rows are no longer behind closed doors, but are being played out in public. C: our enemy has what it wants, in fight among each other.Dutch PM says refugee crisis could shut down Europe's open borders for good21 Jan EU leaders use Davos economic summit to voice concern at numbers of migrants and warn of threat to Schengen agreement over continent-wide travel. Mounting concern in Europe over the scale of the refugee crisis burst into the open when the Dutch prime minister warned that without a reduction in the flow of migrants, border-free travel under the Schengen agreement could break down within two months.Speaking in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, Mark Rutte said Europe was close to breaking point and needed to come up with a common response or run the risk that one of the EU’s founding principles would start to unravel. “We need to get a grip on this issue in the next six to eight weeks”, Rutte said. He said in the first three weeks of this year 35,000 people had crossed the EU’s borders and this would quadruple once the spring arrives. “We can’t cope with the numbers any longer. We need to get a grip on this.”Rutte said that before the Schengen agreement was killed off, the EU had to try to make the Dublin agreement – under which refugees should seek asylum in the first country they reach – work. “No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system then it cannot survive.” Rutte was backed by Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, who said the refugee crisis and security challenges posed existential threats to Europe. “The European project can die, not in decades or years but very fast, if we are unable to

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face up to the security challenge.”Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, expressed doubts about whether the

tight timetable set by Rutte could be met. “I’m not naive,” he said. “My argument to the countries that are not willing to accept refugees is that if we can’t handle this the European Union is at risk. If we cannot do it there is a risk to Schengen.”Austria announced on Wednesday that it planned to limit the number of people allowed to apply for asylum to 1.5% of its population over the next four years. For this year, the government said in a statement, the number would be capped at 37,500.Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said he did not even want to contemplate whether Germany, which accepted more than 1 million refugees in 2015, could cope with a similar number this year. He said Europe had to be prepared to spend billions on a crisis that would cost a lot more than envisaged.

Dec 2015, The European Commission is proposing to establish a new border and coastguard agency that would have a wider mandate and more resources than the current one.

Why is it needed?The new agency is needed because of Europe’s unprecedented refugee crisis, says the European Commission (EC). It claims an estimated 1.5 million people crossed the EU’s external borders between January and November 2015. The EC also mentions the issue of the EU’s internal security, which has been under the spotlight after the Paris terror attacks on November 13 amid questions around how the attackers obtained arms and moved seemingly undetected into France.

How will it work?The EU already has a border management agency, Frontex, set up in 2004 and based in Poland. But its powers are limited: it doesn’t have its own guards or equipment – it borrows from EU member states – and it has to get permission from governments to carry out border management or search and rescue operations on their territory.According to the EC, Frontex’s proposed reincarnation will address these shortcomings, which have been exposed during the EU’s refugee crisis. It will have a reserve pool of 1,500 experts that can be quickly deployed to trouble spots where the EU’s external borders are under threat. Individual member states will continue to manage their own borders on a day-to-day basis. The new coastguard agency will only intervene if a country is assessed to be ‘vulnerable’ in terms of protecting its borders.The agency will also work with countries neighbouring the EU, such as Turkey, to better manage migration flows. It will also help return illegal migrants, who will have a European travel document to help smooth their passage home. The EC says the new Frontex will also up its role in preventing terrorism by carrying out risk analyses and co-operating better with other EU crime-fighting agencies.The EC says that in addition to the 1,500 experts, Frontex, in its new form, should boost its staff numbers from around 400 today to 1,000 by 2020.

Why is it controversial?The agency will be able to intervene in an EU country, even against that member state’s wishes. Hungary told Euronews the plans were “against common sense”, while Poland is also against them on grounds it would impinge on its sovereignty. Eurosceptics, meanwhile, such as UKIP’s Nigel Farage, have called the move a “power grab” from Brussels. The Maritime Executive says the plan would “clamp down on border crossings at a time when migrants are most in need of a way to escape their previous circumstances”. Is anyone in favour of it? Yes, Germany and France. Greek Prime





Minister Alexis Tsipras has welcomed the move, but he stressed that ultimate authority over the borders would still lie with Greece and he ruled out joint

patrols with the Turkish navy, as envisaged by the Commission.

Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe by Daniel PipesThe Washington TimesDecember 29, 2015 Partial no-go zones in majority-Muslim areas are a part of the urban landscape from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, with the French government alone counting 751 of them. This shirking of responsibility foreshadows catastrophe and calls for immediate reversal.I call the bad parts of Europe's cities partial no-go zones because ordinary people in ordinary clothing at ordinary times can enter and leave them without trouble. But they are no-go zones in the sense that representatives of the state – police especially but also firefighters, meter-readers, ambulance attendants, and social workers – can only enter with massed power for temporary periods of time. If they disobey this basic rule (as I learned first-hand in Marseille), they are likely to be swarmed, insulted, threatened, and even attacked.This situation needs not exist. Host societies can say no to the poor, crime-ridden, violent, and rebellious areas emerging in their midst. But, if governments need not abdicate control, why do they do so? Because of a fervent, slightly desperate hope to avoid confrontation. Multicultural policies offer the illusion of sidestepping anything that might be construed as "racist" or "Islamophobic."This abandonment is no minor aberration but a decision with grave consequences – consequences far deeper than, say, not controlling a crime-ridden American city like East St. Louis. That's because Muslim quasi-no-go zones fit into a far larger political context, with dual Western and Islamic dimensions.Western: Avoiding confrontation reflects a deep-seated ambivalence about the value of one's own civilization and even self-hatred of the white race. The French intellectual Pascal Bruckner noted in his 2006 book La tyrannie de la pénitence (English: The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism) that leftist thinking "can be reduced to mechanical denunciations of the West, emphasizing the latter's hypocrisy, violence, and abomination." Europeans preen as "the sick man of the planet" whose greed and false notions of superiority causes every problem in the non-Western world: "The white man has sown grief and ruin wherever he has gone."If the deadly triad of imperialism, fascism, and racism represent all that the West has to offer, no wonder immigrants to Europe, including Islamists, are treated as superior beings due supine deference. They exploit this by acting badly – drug dealers ruling the roost, a gang raping 1,400 children over a period of 16 years, and promoting violent ideologies – with near-impunity because, after all, the Europeans have only themselves to blame. Muslim: Partial no-go zones also result from an Islamic drive for exclusion and domination. Mecca and Medina constitute the official, sovereign, and eternal Muslim-only zones. For nearly fourteen centuries, these two Arabian cities have been formally off-limits to kafirs, who trespass at their peril; a lively literature of non-Muslims who penetrated their holy precincts and lived to tell the tale goes back centuries and continues





still today. Other Islamic no-go zones also exist. Before losing power in 1887, the

Muslim rulers of Harar, Somalia, for centuries insisted (in the words of a British officer) on the "the exclusion of all travellers not of the Moslem faith." In like spirit, women in hijabs scream at non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to make them feel unwelcome and so stay away. In the West, lawful Muslim-only enclaves represent one drive for Muslim autonomy and sovereignty; the Muslims of America organization, with its 15 or so no-go compounds bristling with arms and hostility on private property dotted around the United States, represents another. Unlike places like East St. Louis, Muslim-majority partial no-go zones have a deeply political and highly ambitious quality to them. Indeed, it is not far-fetched to foresee them turning into Muslim autonomous zones applying Islamic law and challenging the authorities. The mix of feeble European governments and a strong Islamic drive for power points to future unrest, crises, breakdown, and even civil war.Some believe it is already too late to avoid this fate. I disagree, but if catastrophe is to be avoided, the job to dismantle all partial no-go zones must be started soon and executed with a swift determination based on a renewed sense of self-worth. Two universal principles should guide European governments: attaining a monopoly of force and applying the same code of law to all citizens.Domestic peace in Europe and perhaps other regions, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, demands nothing less.Daniel Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum.

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggle to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling people.The symbolic milestone was passed on 21 December, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, with the total for land and sea reaching more than 1,006,000.The figure covers entries via six European Union nations - Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus. The vast majority arrived by sea but about 34,000 made their way over land via Turkey.Although not all of those arriving claim asylum, more than 942,400 people have done so in the EU, according to monthly figures from the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.





Germany has received the highest number of new asylum applications, with more than 315,000 by the end of October.

But far more people have arrived in the country - German officials said more than a million had been counted in Germany's "EASY" system for counting and distributing people before they make asylum claims.This includes a large number from the Balkan states who are not counted in the sea arrivals. Hungary has moved into second place for asylum applications, as more migrants have tried to make the journey overland through Greece and the Western Balkans. It had 174,055 applications by the end of October.

Although Germany has had the most asylum applications in 2015, the surge of people arriving in Hungary meant it had the highest in proportion to its population.More than 1,450 refugees per 100,000 of Hungary's local population claimed asylum in the first half of 2015. The figure for Germany was 323 and for the UK it was 30 applications for every 100,000 residents.Where do the migrants come from?The conflict in Syria continues to be by far the biggest driver of the migration. But the ongoing violence in Afghanistan, abuses in Eritrea, as well as poverty in Kosovo are also leading people to look for new lives elsewhere.





Resettlement planTensions in the EU have been rising because of the

disproportionate burden faced by some countries, particularly Greece, Italy and Hungary where migrants have been arriving by boat and overland. In September, EU ministers voted by a majority to relocate 120,000 refugees EU-wide, but for now the plan will only apply to 66,000 who are in Italy and Greece. The other 54,000 were to be moved from

Hungary, but now this number will be held "in reserve", until the governments decide where they should go.

The UK has opted out of any plans for a quota system but, according to Home Office figures, 1,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled under





the Vulnerable

Persons Relocation scheme. Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years.Granting asylumAlthough huge numbers have been applying for asylum, the number of people being given asylum is far lower. In 2014, EU countries offered asylum to 184,665 refugees. In the same year, more than 570,000 migrants applied for asylum - although applying for asylum can be a lengthy procedure so many of those given refugee status may have applied in previous years.

In the year to the end of September, the UK has granted asylum or another form or protection to 1,868 Syrians.

How do migrants get to Europe? The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that more than 920,000 migrants arrived by sea between January and November 2015, compared with 280,000 detections by land and sea for the whole of 2014. The figures do not include those who got in undetected.

The EU's external border force, Frontex, monitors the different routes migrants use and numbers arriving at Europe's borders and put the figure crossing into Europe this year at more than 1,500,000.

Most of those heading for Greece take the relatively short voyage from Turkey to the islands of Kos, Chios, Lesvos and Samos -





often in flimsy rubber dinghies or small wooden boats.How many migrants die?

The voyage from Libya to Italy is longer and more hazardous. According to the IOM, more than 3,695 migrants are reported to have died trying to make the crossing this year - most of those died on the crossing from north Africa, more than 700 died in the Aegean crossing from Greece to Turkey.

The summer months are usually when most fatalities occur as it is the busiest time for migrants attempting to reach Europe.But so far this year the deadliest month for migrants was April, which saw a boat carrying about 800 migrants capsize in the sea off Libya. Overcrowding is thought to have been one of the reasons for the disaster.

Impact of the Syrian crisisAsylum applications from Syrians in Europe have surged in 2015, fuelled by the country's vicious civil war which began more than four years ago and shows no sign of ending.The vast majority of refugees have fled to neighbouring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, and the number of Syrians there far outweighs those who have made the difficult journey to Europe.





Migrants redistributed within GermanyGermany is currently the preferred destination for tens of thousands of migrants in central Europe. It is expected to receive up to 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, four times the figure for 2014.Germany has a quota system which redistributes asylum seekers around its federal states based on their tax income and existing population density.A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.




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