Mass Migration - a plan, or just a consequence of some other plan

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The Norwegian authorities will teach refugees polite conversation with women

http://lifenews.ru./news/178946

Particular attention will be paid to the lessons of the issue of the inadmissibility of sexual harassment.

The Norwegian authorities intend to organize lessons for refugees, where they will learn the rules and regulations of the European style of communication. This was reported by France-Presse.

- Our goal - to help the refugees to avoid the mistakes as they learn Norwegian culture - explained the essence of the program Linda Hagen from the company He ro, dealing with reception of refugees in Norway.

In her opinion, there is no single cultural code that is recognized by all, so it is necessary to teach the immigrants to recognize non-native code.

Particular attention in these courses will be given to dealing with women. The organizers of the courses intend to give specific examples of sexual violence and to tell what the problems it entails.

The decision to hold such employment was made ​​against the backdrop of recent events in the German Cologne, Zurich, Switzerland, Salzburg, Austria and Finland in Helsinki, where over a hundred women subjected to sexual harassment and violence on the part of migrants.

In addition, Internet blogs in Norway itself is also full of reports about alleged cases of attacks on refugees local residents. In particular, it publicized the story that took place in November last year, when two migrants molested a 12-year-old girl.

 

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Migrants Sue Greece in European Court Over Human Rights Violations

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160109/1032881069/migrants-lawsuit-violations-greece.html

The European Court of Human Rights is to consider a complaint submitted by 42 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece over the country's alleged violation of Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Article 4 of the European human rights convention outlaws forced labor and slavery.

"It is the first time such a case has been filed against Greece, and the first time that the large-scale phenomenon of forced labor is to be addressed at a European level. At the same time four international human rights organizations and an academic institution have announced their plan to support the lawsuit. The Greek authorities are invited on January 20, 2016 to comment on the breach of obligations under Article 4," the council's press release said Friday.

The Bangladeshi migrants had been working on strawberry plantations in the Nea Manolada community, where around 200 migrants, mostly from Bangladesh and Pakistan, protested against a six-month long delay in wages in 2013. Overseers responded by opening fire on the workers, injuring 28, according to police reports. Numerous labor and human rights violations have been reported in the area.

Legislative intervention and plans to curb labor abuses is necessary to prevent such incidents, the GCR said, stressing the resonance of the 2013 events across Greek society and politics.

In July 2014, two of the plantation's employees were sentenced to over 14 years and seven months and eight years and seven months for illegal use of firearms and inflicting grievous bodily harm. The indicted overseers were then allowed to pay monetary fines instead of serving the terms.

 

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Refugee Influx Repercussions: Europe’s Schengen System is on Its Deathbed

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160111/1032925227/eu-refugees-deathbed.html

Germany cannot find any support in Europe for its stance on the refugee question: its partners are demonstratively distancing themselves from Berlin, a tendency that will become even more pronounced following the reprehensible events in the city of Cologne, according to Malte Lehming, an editor at Berlin’s Der Tagesspiegel daily.

“Europe’s Schengen system is on its deathbed,” Lehming states in his article for The National Interest magazine. Germany can’t find any support in Europe for its stance on the refugee crisis.

The author explains, that the country’s partners are now demonstratively distancing themselves from Berlin in terms of the refugee question, especially after the notorious events in the city of Cologne, “where dozens of German women were sexually assaulted during a melee by over a thousand North African and Arab men on New Year’s Eve”.

“Now everyone in Europe is talking about “the Cologne atmosphere,” which they would prefer to avoid,” he adds.

The country itself remains divided over the issue.

“The police, for example, are sounding alarms because they are understaffed and overwhelmed,” the author says.

“Educators are sounding alarms because there aren’t enough instructors for introductory courses about living in Germany.”

“Towns are sounding alarms because they’ve run out of room for more refugees. And it’s unclear how long sports facilities will be used as temporary hostels, because no one knows how many more refugees will arrive.”

Meanwhile, the authorities are unable to suggest any further plan of actions, even though “a return to the cozy pre-refugee era is out of the question”.

“The refugees are here. They have to be integrated. But the way forward is shrouded in fog.”

“At the same time, sober discussion of the problem is impossible. The moral and political faction that represents what might be called Germany’s “welcome culture” rigorously throttles any attempt to discern a connection between refugees and the danger of Islamic terror. This became particularly clear after the recent attacks in Paris.”

The author however acknowledges that asylum homes are attacked daily. And the authorities are shutting down online forums because of the “viciousness of comments about asylum seekers”.

“One side has fear of over-foreignization, of Islam, of radicalization, of limitless immigration, “ the author says.

“Their opponents have opened their hearts to the refugees and believe in their ability to integrate into German society.”

Still, Lehming cites the results of a poll by the Allensbach Institute, nearly half of all Germans are afraid to voice their opinion about the refugee crisis.

The skeptics of today’s refugee policy—the term “concerned citizens”, he says, is now being used as a term of aspersion by the pro-refugee faction—are not represented by any party in parliament, but are announcing themselves with increasing vigor in the media and in opinion polls.

“Is suppression at play here? That would revive a nasty theme in German history. After the Second World War, the crimes of the Third Reich were suppressed. During the Cold War, many did not want to acknowledge the crimes of the Communists. Are Germans now suppressing what awaits their country thanks to the high number of immigrants?” the author finally questions.

 

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Austria Hit With Financial Burden of Hosting Refugees Turned Back by Berlin

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160113/1033043024/austria-germany-refugees-financial-burden.html

Austria gets no financial help from Germany for hosting asylum seekers who have been turned back by Germany, the Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova — Germany has been sending hundreds of refugees back to Austria, the last point of transit, following a scandal involving men with a migrant background sexually assaulting women in several German cities.

Asked if Austria received any financial help from Germany in order to host additional refugees or planned to send the rejected asylum seekers to other EU member states, Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said "no."

He added that expulsions of failed refugees by Germany were a technical issue, not enshrined in any bilateral agreement with Austria.

"It's not agreed, but [is] just a matter of fact that people who are not accepted to cross the border to Germany do stay in Austria," Grundboeck explained.

Emergency refugee shelters are being organized in Austria to host migrants who have been turned back by Germany, Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told Sputnik.

"Places for emergency accommodation are organized by the Red Cross, in Styria, Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol," he continued.

On Tuesday, Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that German authorities would ease rules to make it easier to deport immigrants who commit crimes.

Germany has been sending hundreds of failed asylum seekers a day back to Austria since the start of the year.

The measure was deemed necessary after dozens of women in the German city of Cologne were robbed and sexually assaulted on New Year's Eve by groups of aggressive men, mostly of Arab and North African origin. Several similar incidents were reported the same day in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Berlin.

 

[luke wilson]

Not sure if this was ever posted,

https://youtu.be/pUkW0kWb1x0

 

[Palinurus]

If it ever was, I didn't see it; so thanks for sharing luke.

I'm not a fan of this genre as such, but I have to concede that sometimes there are very to-the-point political statements to be found -- like this one. And nicely wrapped too.

Moreover, I was happily surprised to discover (they were automagically activated) that this vid has Dutch subtitles which are pretty accurate and very much synced with the overall rhythm of the show.

Great fun !

 

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Bavarian official sends bus full of refugees to Chancellor Merkel

http://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-official-sends-bus-full-of-refugees-to-chancellor-merkel/a-18979277

The head of Bavaria's Landshut area has sent a bus with 51 refugees to Berlin. The reason, he says, is his region's inability to find accommodation and a loss of trust in the federal government.

A group of 51 asylum seekers housed in the Bavarian district of Landshut were being sent to Berlin to Chancellor Angela Merkel, the district office said on Thursday.

The migrants volunteering for the trip were recognized refugees, which meant they could live anywhere in Germany, Landhut's chief administrator Peter Dreier said. Neither the authorities in Landshut nor the refugees were paying for the trip, which was being paid by private sponsors in and around the area.

Landshut has 66 decentralized shelters - including private homes and hotels - for accommodating migrants. Authorities have also organized one emergency hall and several smaller homes for underage asylum seekers.

The refugees being taken to Berlin were living in state shelters because they would otherwise be homeless in Landshut, where renting out a flat is very expensive, the district office said in a statement.

Loss of trust

Dreier justified his step saying Germany's refugee policy would have to change and things could not go on as they were until now. He said he was going to Berlin with the refugees to personally register his protest with the chancellor.

"There is no end to the wave of refugees," Dreier said. There was no decent accommodation for refugees and no new homes were being built,"as far as he could see." On the contrary, many people had lost their trust in the state and its functioning even before the events in Cologne, Dreier complained, referring to widespread incidents of sexual assaults by foreigners in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

"If we do not take the problems and hardships of our residents seriously, the social and inner peace of our country will be at stake," Dreier's official statement said. The officer had already informed Chancellor Angela Merkel of his plans in October last year. In her reply, Merkel said, "If you send the buses to me, I will have to send them back to Greece and the refugees will walk back to you," Dreier told German newspaper, "Die Welt."

Reactions on social media

#Merkelbus began trending on Twitter soon after the news was published on German media. This user criticized Dreier's move, saying he was behaving like a "small child."...

Shocking Report Reveals Migrants Committed Over 185,000 Crimes in Germany

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160114/1033140965/germany-migrants-crimes.html

The Federal Criminal Police Office published statistics regarding crimes committed by migrants in Germany last year.

The data shows that the number of crimes has increased, but not as much as the number of refugees as a whole, Focus reported citing an exclusive Bild article.

Migrants committed 186,235 crimes in the period from January to November 2015, 70,000 more compared to the previous year.

The figures come from a report by the Federal Criminal Police Office and were released by the German newspaper Bild.

According to the document, two thirds of the crimes committed by migrants were physical injuries (23,338 cases), robbery (75,600 cases) and falcification of travel documents (26,436 cases).

The share of sexual offenses was on the contrary very low and made up less than one percent of all crimes. The Office registered 1,462 offenses based on sexual identity which also includes child abuse, and 404 cases of rape or sexual assaults.

The number of sexual offenses increased in refugee facilities since September 2015. Most crimes were commited by Serbs, Albanians, Kosovars and Syrians.

The peak of the criminal activities occured on December 31, when numerous women in Cologne and other German cities were robbed, threatened and sexually assaulted by small groups of aggressive men, allegedly of Arab and North African origin.

The German police registered a total of 561 complaints so far. Following the attacks, German authorities announced plans to ease deportation procedures for migrants who have committed crimes.

 

[Konstantin]

Bavarian official sends bus full of refugees to Chancellor Merkel

http://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-official-sends-bus-full-of-refugees-to-chancellor-merkel/a-18979277

The head of Bavaria's Landshut area has sent a bus with 51 refugees to Berlin. The reason, he says, is his region's inability to find accommodation and a loss of trust in the federal government.

A group of 51 asylum seekers housed in the Bavarian district of Landshut were being sent to Berlin to Chancellor Angela Merkel, the district office said on Thursday.

The migrants volunteering for the trip were recognized refugees, which meant they could live anywhere in Germany, Landhut's chief administrator Peter Dreier said. Neither the authorities in Landshut nor the refugees were paying for the trip, which was being paid by private sponsors in and around the area.

Landshut has 66 decentralized shelters - including private homes and hotels - for accommodating migrants. Authorities have also organized one emergency hall and several smaller homes for underage asylum seekers.

The refugees being taken to Berlin were living in state shelters because they would otherwise be homeless in Landshut, where renting out a flat is very expensive, the district office said in a statement.

Loss of trust

Dreier justified his step saying Germany's refugee policy would have to change and things could not go on as they were until now. He said he was going to Berlin with the refugees to personally register his protest with the chancellor.

"There is no end to the wave of refugees," Dreier said. There was no decent accommodation for refugees and no new homes were being built,"as far as he could see." On the contrary, many people had lost their trust in the state and its functioning even before the events in Cologne, Dreier complained, referring to widespread incidents of sexual assaults by foreigners in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

"If we do not take the problems and hardships of our residents seriously, the social and inner peace of our country will be at stake," Dreier's official statement said. The officer had already informed Chancellor Angela Merkel of his plans in October last year. In her reply, Merkel said, "If you send the buses to me, I will have to send them back to Greece and the refugees will walk back to you," Dreier told German newspaper, "Die Welt."

Reactions on social media

#Merkelbus began trending on Twitter soon after the news was published on German media. This user criticized Dreier's move, saying he was behaving like a "small child."...

Shocking Report Reveals Migrants Committed Over 185,000 Crimes in Germany

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160114/1033140965/germany-migrants-crimes.html

The Federal Criminal Police Office published statistics regarding crimes committed by migrants in Germany last year.

The data shows that the number of crimes has increased, but not as much as the number of refugees as a whole, Focus reported citing an exclusive Bild article.

Migrants committed 186,235 crimes in the period from January to November 2015, 70,000 more compared to the previous year.

The figures come from a report by the Federal Criminal Police Office and were released by the German newspaper Bild.

According to the document, two thirds of the crimes committed by migrants were physical injuries (23,338 cases), robbery (75,600 cases) and falcification of travel documents (26,436 cases).

The share of sexual offenses was on the contrary very low and made up less than one percent of all crimes. The Office registered 1,462 offenses based on sexual identity which also includes child abuse, and 404 cases of rape or sexual assaults.

The number of sexual offenses increased in refugee facilities since September 2015. Most crimes were commited by Serbs, Albanians, Kosovars and Syrians.

The peak of the criminal activities occured on December 31, when numerous women in Cologne and other German cities were robbed, threatened and sexually assaulted by small groups of aggressive men, allegedly of Arab and North African origin.

The German police registered a total of 561 complaints so far. Following the attacks, German authorities announced plans to ease deportation procedures for migrants who have committed crimes.

As the C`s said , the main target is Germany. And is they plan advancing to make disunity and discord in Germany. I`m afraid that they are on a good way to do that .

 

[bjorb]

While back I spotted this poster, here is the picture:

Anti Muslim/Immigration posters and graffiti are becoming more widespread but I found this one particular and maybe even symbolic since they had to use a train. Trains in ww2 used for mass-deportation ended in concentration camps.

What I also find frightening are the posters which tell that we should resist immigration and take our country back to regain freedom. Apparantly only when we embrace fascism are we free. I should just rip those posters off the walls whenever I spot one.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

As the C`s said , the main target is Germany. And is they plan advancing to make disunity and discord in Germany. I`m afraid that they are on a good way to do that .

I would like to remind you about Ohrid Framework Agreement ( Охридски Рамковен Договор) signed on 13 August 2001:

https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80

 

[Konstantin]

As the C`s said , the main target is Germany. And is they plan advancing to make disunity and discord in Germany. I`m afraid that they are on a good way to do that .

I would like to remind you about Ohrid Framework Agreement ( Охридски Рамковен Договор) signed on 13 August 2001:

https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80

Well, maybe Macedonia was just a test ground for what will follow in bigger EU countries like Germany and France and maybe some other countries. To destroy them from inside, to split and separate from inside.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

Well, maybe Macedonia was just a test ground for what will follow in bigger EU countries like Germany and France and maybe some other countries. To destroy them from inside, to split and separate from inside.

Maybe...

 

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Majority of Germans Believe Merkel Unable to Resolve Current Refugee Crisis

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160115/1033213605/germans-merkel-refuge-crisis.html

The majority of German citizens believe their security and finances are threatened because of the current refugee crisis, the German magazine Focus Online writes.

The German population is becoming increasingly skeptical toward Germany's policy of open doors. Every second German believes that the refugee crisis cannot be overcome, while 48 percent of the population stated they are afraid of refugees, a recent ARD survey reveals.

In 2015 more than one million refugees entered Germany, fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. Despite overburdened municipalities and crowded refugee facilities, German Chancellor Angela Merkel optimistically repeated her credo: "We can do this".

However, the most recent polls reveal that this optimism in Germany is decreasing. 51% of Germans believe that their country won't be able to resolve the current refugee crisis, Focus Online writes.

The skepticism among the population has especially risen after the massive attacks on women on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other German cities. Hundreds of women were reportedly robbed, threatened and sexually assaulted by small groups of aggressive men, allegedly mostly of Arab and North African origin.

Besides security concerns, 85% of Germans are afraid that they will lose material wealth because of the current migration crisis, a recent survey conducted by the consulting firm Ernst & Young showed.

"The refugee crisis has been the main subject in the debates and the media coverage in this country for several months," EY representative Thomas Harms told the German magazine Focus. As a result, this issue becomes more important for people than in fact it should be, the expert claimed.

The current financial situation in the country seems to be stable. Low unemployment rates, low inflation, rising salaries and cheap energy prices demonstrate positive changes in the socioeconomic field compared with the previous year.

Despite this, German consumers access their own financial situation for 2016 as pessimistic. Many of them don't fear job losses, small pensions or illness. However, they remain anxious about more global issues such as the economic slowdown, environmental pollution, the debt crisis in Europe, and the current refugee crisis, which was assessed by the European Commission as the worst migration crisis since WWII.

 

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Juncker blames 'arrogant' refugees for re-housing policy failure

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/belgium/brussels/12102472/Juncker-blames-arrogant-refugees-for-re-housing-policy-failure.html

Jean-Claude Juncker rounds on national governments and migrants for the collapse of an EU policy intended to help manage migrant crisis

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, on Friday blamed “arrogant” refugees for the failure of his policy to rehouse tens of thousands of migrants across the continent.

Mr Juncker rounded on national governments and migrants themselves for the collapse of an EU policy that was intended to relieve the burden of the migrant crisis by spreading 160,000 people around the bloc in a series of airlifts.

It has moved 272 people, including four to Lithuania and six to Belgium. Just 17 out of 28 EU states have volunteered any places.

Diplomats are angered because they warned – and it has proven to be the case – that the scheme could not work because of migrants’ resolute determination to reach only Germany and have no wish to be sent to the poorer east.

Mr Juncker was defiant at a press conference in Brussels, and said he was not going to “give up” over an issue that risks a “serious crisis of credibility” for the EU.

“It’s not that the Commission hasn’t delivered. But a number of member states have failed to fully deliver, or do what needs to be done.

“I’m getting a little tired myself of constantly finding that the European Commission and the European Union are criticised for the fact that not has enough been done. A number of member states find it difficult apparently to implement decisions that they took themselves. It’s simply not on that a decision of this type is not subsequently executed. I’m not going to give up over that.”

He acknowledged the determination of asylum seekers to reach wealthy states such as Germany.

"We cannot have a situation where those that come to Europe then decide rather arrogantly for themselves where they want to live. That is not possible. That is absolutely not on.

“It is not the refugees responsible for dividing up refugees - it is the member states. No refugee has an innate right to decide or refuse to be sent to a particular country."

Mr Juncker also urged nations to stop reintroducing border controls to halt the migrant flow, warning it could have “unimaginable” consequences for the economy by halting the flow of trade and ultimately destroying the single currency.

"If anybody wants to kill off Schengen, then ultimately what they are going to do is do away with the single market as well. And that's going to lead to unemployment issues in Europe. Less Schengen means less employment, less economic growth."

He added that refugees must be allowed to work or "all sorts of unpleasant things" will happen.

While he did not directly refer to them, a series of attacks on women in Cologne and other European cities have raised profound questions about how hundreds of thousands of young Middle Eastern men will be integrated into western Europe.

“If people are sitting at home for months and years, idle and not working, they are never going to be able to become a fully valued member of Europe society. That is important if we want to protect ourselves from all sorts of unpleasant things.

“We need a system that allows people to go out and work rather than preventing them from pursuing an occupation.”

Austria joins Germany in sending back refugees

http://www.dw.com/en/austria-joins-germany-in-sending-back-refugees/a-18983177

Austria's interior minister has said her country will no longer allow refugees to pass freely through its borders. From next week, those who do not wish to seek asylum in Austria or Germany may be sent back to Slovenia.

Austria announced on Friday that it will begin next week to refuse entry to migrants seeking to pass through to Scandinavia. Following Germany's lead, Vienna plans to send as many refugees as possible back to its southern border.

"Right now on the Austrian-German border, only those seeking asylum in Germany are being allowed in. Those who want to go further are being turned back," Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said in a radio interview.

"We will stop them directly on our southern border as of the end of next week," she said, alluding to Austria's frontier with Slovenia.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees have streamed through Austria and into Germany as they flee conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and North Africa. Around 90,000 have applied for asylum in Austria itself, but many more wish to go on to Germany or even further north to Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.

Criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy reached a fever pitch after a mass of sexual assaults occurred in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, many of them at the hands of recent immigrants. Since then, Germany has down a bit of an about-face in its refugee strategy and begun to send more and more asylum seekers back to Austria.

Between 200 and 300 people have been arriving back in Austria each day.

Coalition partners at odds in Vienna

In Vienna, the coalition parties the Social Democrats and the Austrian People's Party have agreed that something must be done to reduce the number of new arrivals, but until now they have been unable to agree upon a unified strategy.

In the same radio interview, Johanna Mikl-Leitner said the 120,000 asylum claims authorities expect Austria to receive in 2016 is "impossible" for such a small country.

However, Chancellor Werner Faymann has not moved in his assertion that asylum is a universal right that cannot be capped. Instead, he has joined his German counterpart Angela Merkel in calling for a redistribution of refugees across Europe.

 

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Austria Suspends Schengen, Imposes Border Control Amid Refugee Crisis

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160116/1033258254/austria-schengen-refugees-border-control.html

The Austrian government temporarily suspended the Schengen agreement, imposing full border control measures on everyone entering the country, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told the newspaper Oesterreich in an interview.

"Everyone who is coming to us would be carefully checked at the border," Fayman told Oesterreich.

Chancellor Faymann said that from now on Austria would "similar to Germany" have a more strict border control and deport people who, lacking the proper refugee identification, out of the country.

"At border control points everyone has to show a valid ID to Austrian authorities," Faymann said, adding that if the EU cannot provide the security at its external borders, countries should start controlling their own national borders, according to the Austrian newspaper.

Austria plans to use its army to stop refugees from entering the country. Most refugees are trying to reach Germany and apply for asylum there, but to get to Germany they need to hike across Austria.

The move of the Austrian government essentially means that the Schengen agreement is thrown out the window. The Schengen zone has currently 26 members, including most EU members and four non-EU members.
The idea behind the agreement is that the citizens of Schengen countries can access any country without the need to go through border controls and visitors can travel across the Schengen zone with one common visa that applies throughout the entire Schengen zone.

Earlier this week, other Schengen countries, including Norway, Sweden and Denmark, also temporarily suspended the Schengen agreement and restored border control measures at their national borders.

Europe is currently struggling to cope with a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety and refuge in the stable and wealthy EU states.