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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that Europe's migration crisis is putting the EU at grave risk.
Mr Valls told the BBC Europe could not take all the refugees fleeing what he called terrible wars in Iraq or Syria.
"Otherwise," he said, "our societies will be totally destabilised."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35375303
Well if the protracted dithering and chaos we've seen over the last year or two is how the EU reacts to such 'grave risk' I think that says a lot about how unfit for purpose the EU is when it comes to such basics as border security and managing migration.
Those of us who who've been predicting problems like this for years won't be surprised by words such as this but will the Eurocrats actually come up with a credible plan for dealing with the 'grave' threat before millions more have arrived?...
Meanwhile in Finland they're teaching migrants how to behave:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35353310
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Migrants arriving in Finland are being offered classes on Finnish values and how to behave towards women. Concerned about a rise in the number of sexual assaults in the country, the government wants to make sure that people from very conservative cultures know what to expect in their new home.
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I noticed the word 'offering' - wonder how many are taking up the offer and are willing to be 'educated'...
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And that's why these classes are backed by the interior ministry and the police. Last autumn three asylum seekers were convicted of rape in Finland, and at the new year there was a series of sexual assaults and harassments similar to those in Cologne and Stockholm. Victims reported that the perpetrators were of Middle Eastern appearance - something Helsinki's deputy chief of police, Ilkka Koskimaki decided to go public with.
"It's difficult to talk about," he admits as we drive in a patrol car through the icy streets of the city. "But we have to tell the truth. Usually we would not reveal the ethnic background of a suspect, but these incidents, where groups of young foreign men," as he puts it, "surround a girl in a public place and harass her have become a phenomenon."
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...The lesson at Raasepoori reception centre is drawing to a close and the asylum seekers have been given optional homework to help them read up on Finland's sexual equality laws. As we leave the class, an Iraqi man in a colourful bomber jacket shakes my hand.
"It's great in Finland," he says "But when I marry, my wife will be a housekeeper who will cook the food I like - and she certainly won't go to discos."
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... and in Germany:
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"I understand that refugees need somewhere safe to go but Germany can't save the world by itself.
"Hopefully this nightmare will soon be over - for them and for us. Then they'll be able to go back to their own homes. And leave ours for good."
It is a journalistic cliché to quote your taxi driver but East German Alexander in his smart Mercedes summed up perfectly the pervading mood in his country.
So I can't ignore him.
He, like most Germans, according to a recent poll by the public broadcaster ZDF, thinks the country cannot cope with the huge amount of refugees and other migrants who have arrived over the last year...
... "People are coming to Germany with fake IDs or no papers at all, saying they are refugees. We have no idea who they really are. Many Germans feel it's a ticking time bomb.
"The people who came to our shop used to be young men but now we have a lot of female customers and older people too. We normally offer a choice of 15 different types of pepper sprays for example. Now we've sold out and so have our suppliers."
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Maybe that's what happens when our glorious leaders and even those we look to for protection are economical with the truth.
This sort of trouble was perfectly predictable given the influx of huge numbers of testosterone filled and desperate young men but it seems admitting that probability was just too much for the great and the good. Anyway it's a confirmed fact now that even they can't deny and maybe that's why they seem to be conspicuous by their absence in this EU wide debate now.