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Originally Posted by Osem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34110406
The definition of chaos.
So Germany has already accepted hundreds of thousands of migrants this year and the result is that more migrants are heading to Germany and they're now struggling to cope. What a complete surprise! 
To those still in denial about the scale of this problem, tell that to the Germans (Europe's largest economy & the world's 4th largest) who're now asking for more help to distribute the migrants around Europe. Quite understandably they want other countries to share the burden yet so far as I can see all that results in is more migrants being encouraged to make the journey with the huge problems that creates in places like Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Italy....
Anyway it's great that there's going to be an 'emergency' EU meeting about all this. Pity it's going to take 2 weeks to sort out but then what do we expect within the EU? Events in Europe in recent years have shown up the Schengen agreement to be just as outdated and open to abuse as the asylum rules are. Who'd have thought eh?  It's so much more important for tourists to endure checks at borders and it's not as though this problem has been going on for years and turned a blind eye to in any way is it...
IMHO the level of denial, ineptitude and political dithering displayed by the EU in respect of this issue is both staggering and alarming.
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I don't think one person on this thread who has denied that there is an issue or the scale of the issue. The disagreements are based on those who want to 'shut up shop' and those that want to show a little more compassion to our fellow man.
Lets not forget, we need to hold ourselves accountable for a good percentage of this, due to our actions in certain countries (Libya, Syria, Iraq to name but three)
PS it's Schengen II the original was quite a while ago IIRC