I expect there are many mistakes or failures that could be pointed out about the present refugee situation but there is one that to me is such a glaringly obvious failure that I am totally surprised that it has not been rectified or should I say it was not something that was put into place earlier.
That big failure? Germany making statements to the world media that it would take 800,000 refugees and/or asylum seekers this year but it has made no attempt to ensure that those people that fall within the category can actually get to Germany to register and take up the offer!
Where are the ships and the planes that should have been immediately despatched to the Mediterranean area to collect those wishing to go? They are not there. Germany, as well as every other country in Europe are more than aware of the problems that were already being caused by people crossing the Mediterranean Sea prior to the announcement by Chancellor Merkel. The announcement, in my view, has made matters worse which was something even a blind man should have been able to see but Germany was obviously oblivious to the outcome of the announcement.
Now that other European countries are also making announcements about their intentions to take in refugees there really needs to be a transport system put into place that allows for their humanitarian gestures to become reality.
To expect countries such as Greece, Italy and Hungary to be inundated with refugees and asylum seekers and then to organise their onward movement, something that will have to be done if the refugees and asylum seekers are going to make it to the destinations they are looking at, is ridiculous and needs sorting out yesterday!!!!
A pan-European emergency transport system for these people? Will it happen? I will leave it to you, the reader, to decide but without it there is going to be no improvement in the situation for either the people or the countries that are being hugely affected.
