Moggy wrote:Return_of_the_STAR wrote:KK wrote:Welt am Sonntag via Breitbart wrote:Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that Africa’s population explosion will overwhelm Europe unless the continent makes it more difficult for migrants to reach its shores.
The American billionaire’s comments come as European leaders discuss what to do about the surging number of Africans arriving in Italy each week, with Rome calling for other European Union (EU) nations to open their ports to docking migrants so as to ease pressure on the Mediterranean nation.
In an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Gates said massive population growth in Africa will result in “enormous [migratory] pressure” on Europe unless countries increase overseas development aid payments.
Praising Germany having achieved its commitment to devote 0.7 per cent of GDP to foreign aid as “phenomenal”, the 61-year-old called on “other European nations to follow its example”.
But Gates also spoke of a dilemma caused by ‘the German attitude to refugees’, referring to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open Europe’s borders to illegal migrants arriving from the third world.
“On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this — which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa,” Gates told the Sunday newspaper.
“Germany cannot possibly take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe.”
Because of this, Gates stressed that “Europe must make it more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes”.
Italy is demanding that other EU nations open their ports to migrants ferried from Libya as the country struggles to cope with having already received over 80,000 people this year.
Calling for African newcomers to be spread throughout Europe, the Mediterranean nation’s globalist centre-left government insisted that the EU migrant relocation programme — which is largely limited to people from Eritrea and Syria — should be expanded to include other nationalities, such as Nigerians.
“Without a swift collective action, we can only expect more tragedies at sea,” he declared, noting that around 2,000 migrants have lost their lives on the sea route from Libya to Italy this year.
The Italian diplomat repeated calls for an “urgent distribution system” for incoming migrants and asylum seekers, and “additional legal pathways to admission”.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07 ... erwhelmed/ (there is no other current source for the translation)
Cameron was so spot on with his plans for handling this whole situation and nobody took it on board. If you had to point to one situation that swung the overall referendum vote it was probably this.
I do agree that this is a massive problem. It's the only benefit I see to us coming out of the EU, that's on the assumption that we are better protected from the problem out of the EU.
It has no effect on us unless we agree to take people.
We are not in Schengen and have controls over our borders. Freedom of movement only applies to EU nationals, not asylum seekers or fresh off the boat immigrants. And getting citizenship, of say Germany, would take a minimum of 5 years.
Who the hell is oing to risk their life getting to Germany, spend 5 years there, pass all of those citizenship tests and then immediately run off to Britain?
Well the more and more that come to Europe, the more that will try to get into the UK by illegal means. Currently though statistically it looks like they are happy to settle in Germany, France etc than try to risk illegally getting into the UK.
We do still though have a massive problem here with illegal immigration. The scale of the problem is not reported as i don't think the authorities truly have any idea how bad it is.
I read a report the other day that there are believed to be 35,000 illegal Vietnamese people who have got into the UK in the last 5 years alone. How they come to this number I have no idea but i can believe it's high due to what i see in my work. Northampton alone has had 14 Vietnamese 'children' reported as missing in the past 6 months. They were all illegal immigrants, found on lorries, they claimed to be under 18 so were put into social services care and within a few days to weeks they just vanish. Now image this repeated all over the country and it's a shocking statistic. Then think that is just one country that's the other side of the world. Now i don't for one minute think this is happening from every country. In reality it's only a small number of countries where it's citizens are risking their lives to try to get to europe but still the statistics are worrying.
Will we be safer from the problem in or out of the EU? i don't really know. But i believe France, Germany, Italy etc currently have a worse problem than we do.