EU Prepares Plan to Turn Away Masses of Refugees from Europe
(So many differing reports that its hard to know what to believe. Even the estimate of Syrian Refugees the USA will take has gone from up to 75,000 yesterday (reported by AP) to Today's report from Obama Press Secretary to 10,000. So...it goes on) 
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EU Prepares Plan to Turn Away Masses of Refugees from Europe
By Alex Lantier
September 10, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "WSWS" - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the European Union (EU) address yesterday highlighted the political gulf separating popular sympathy for the refugees arriving in Europe from the vindictive policies of the ruling class. While polls in Germany show broad support for granting asylum to all refugees, and thousands are turning out to greet and give aid to those arriving in Germany and Austria, the EU is preparing to turn away masses of refugees.
Juncker unveiled a proposal to spend a miserly sum on a quota system, under which only a small fraction of the total number of refugees would remain in Europe. “Since the beginning of the year, nearly 500,000 people have made their way to Europe,” Juncker said, mainly from Syria and Libya. Some 213,000 are in Greece, 145,000 in Hungary, and 115,000 in Italy.
Nevertheless, he proposed a quota system to take in only 160,000 refugees, less than one third of the total number, and forcibly distribute them between different EU countries—including towards countries where the refugees may not wish to go. The quota program would receive €780 million (US $875 million) in EU budget support.
Juncker painted the picture of European authorities overcome by events that had escaped their control. He bleakly declared that “our European Union is not in a good state,” predicting that the refugee crisis, like the wars in Syria and Libya, would continue indefinitely. “Let’s be clear and honest with our often worried citizens: as long as there is a war in Syria and terror in Libya, the refugee crisis will not simply go away,” he said, adding: “I do not want to create any illusions that the refugee crisis will be over any time soon. It will not.”
Indeed, after French President François Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron called for stepped-up air strikes in Syria this week, the EU powers seem to have no other plan beyond escalating the Syrian crisis even further.
Juncker also gave a disastrous account of the internal situation in Europe. “The economic and social situation speaks for itself: over 23 million people are still unemployed today in the European Union, with more than half without a job for a year or more. In the euro area alone, more than 17.5 million people are without a job. Our recovery is hampered by global uncertainties. Government debt in the EU has reached more than 88 percent of GDP on average, and stands at almost 93 percent in the euro area. The crisis is not over. It has just been put on pause,” he said.
The content of Juncker’s address constitutes an indictment of the social order. The wars for regime change the EU powers launched together with Washington in Libya and Syria, using reactionary Islamist militias as proxy forces, have devastated entire societies. As refugees now stream into Europe, the European ruling elite is refusing to assist them, bickering violently instead over how to divide up responsibility for greeting or expelling refugees.
Europe remains the world’s wealthiest continent. Nonetheless, the EU plans to spend much less on the refugee crisis than far poorer Middle Eastern countries, which are spending billions of dollars on housing millions of refugees. Counting only Syrian refugees, 1,938,999 are staying in Turkey, 1,113,941 in Lebanon, 629,266 in Jordan, 249,463 in Iraq, and 132,375 in Egypt, according to UN statistics. Over seven million have been displaced within Syria itself.
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