Wasn't Such A Daft Idea After All.

[anotheoldgit]

Further to my 15:52 Fri 25th Nov 2016 thread.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/737124/Migrant-crisis-Serbia-frontier-fence-Turkey-Erdogan-border-refugees-EU-agreement

[TheChair]

Your Friday post was about an EU wall. Serbia is not in the EU.

[Baldric]

As stated in the OP's link,
///Serbia - which is not an EU member - is a vital transit point on the migrant journey northwards from Greece towards the promised lands of Germany and Sweden///

[ichkeria]

Regardless of the merits or otherwise of this 'secret' proposal, I'm not sure I'd call Serbia a 'tiny' country as the report does . It's about the same size as the Czech Republic.

[ToraToraTora]

"Tiny", is not usually a measure of area ich.

[Gromit]

// Islamist despot Erdogan //

That's a bit off message, Boris insists we should support Turkey and help it join the EU.

[Gromit]

Serbia is 4 times the size of Wales, and has double the population.

[naomi24]

//Boris insists we should support Turkey and help it join the EU.//

That's ok. We're leaving.

[New Judge]

“Serbia is 4 times the size of Wales, and has double the population.”

Or less than a third of the size of the UK with a population smaller than that of Greater London.

I don’t know what the fuss is about. The first duty of a Government is to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Western Europe is currently under invasion from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Vast numbers of people with no entitlement to be there are clamouring to get in using any and every means at their disposal to do so. The recent wave has calmed down for two reasons: the winter has set in making travelling over many routes more difficult and Turkey has taken some small steps to prevent the migrants that end up within its borders from heading north. Those two reasons are temporary. The Spring will soon be here and Turkey has threatened to unleash many of its migrants to travel northwards. Governments whose countries are in the firing line have a duty to do everything they can to prevent mass incursions and the measures proposed by Serbia, whilst they may not prevent those incursions entirely, may help considerably to do so.

Instead of worrying how it can make things bad for the infidel UK by making it “pay” for having the temerity to leave the club, the EU needs to concentrate on more pressing matters such as doing the same as Serbia – protecting its borders. It was their idea to create a vast single area through which people – whether entitled to be there or not – were free to roam. The very least it can do is to follow Serbia's lead and concentrate on that area’s security so that the incursions are kept to a minimum and further incursions beyond the ridiculous Schengen area (especially the UK) are also minimised.

[ichkeria]

"Tiny", is not usually a measure of area ich

Er.. ??
"Tiny" is Andorra, Liechtenstein or the Vatican City :-)
Serbia ranks in the top half of countries by both size and population. Even after losing Kosovo :-)

[webbo3]

So much for freedom of movement.




Dave.