Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Soros, you are not even close

NYRB: Most of the building blocks for an effective asylum system are available; they only need to be assembled into a comprehensive and coherent policy. Critically, refugees and the countries that contain them in the Middle East must receive enough financial support to make their lives there viable, allowing them to work and to send their children to school. That would help to keep the inflow of refugees to a level that Europe can absorb. This can be accomplished by establishing a firm and reliable target for the number of refugee arrivals: between 300,000 and 500,000 per year. This number is large enough to give refugees the assurance that many of them can eventually seek refuge in Europe, yet small enough to be accommodated by European governments even in the current unfavorable political climate.
George needs to include Italy and North African refugees, nor do you count the catastrophe in the middle east when oil is in deflation.  The EU is going to subsidize up to 30 million, at least; otherwise they are headed north. 

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