Europe's Migrant Crisis: Views from Central Europe

This is not an attack so much as it is self-destructive policy. Europe's political class is at fault. Immigrants with horrible habits don't open borders. Politicians open borders.

The rich Arabs country's shut their doors to refugees saying there are hidden terrorists among them... to me this is a planned Islamisation of Europe... and it's unfortunate the EU is so blind to this... I pray central and east European countries keep holding their ground... the Muslims call the Christians infidels but seeking the benefits of the infidels. Pathetic! What's happening presently shows clearly the difference between the so-called religion of peace and Christianity...Islam is a religion of subjugation...its it all seen throughout history.... If the power houses of Europe are captured (UK, France, Germany, The Nordic countries) then the rest are gone also.... the Muslim Arab leaders will be laughing at the stupidity of the EU. I don't want to ever see an Islamic caliphate in Europe...the ideology of Islam is far different and incompatible with that of Christianity...to say the truth the EU needs Donald Trump sincerely... God save Europe.....

Since the Visegrad countries including Austria will stick to their firm stance against the insanity of Merkel and her likes among the western EU this conflict has the potential to blow the EU apart. Which would be a good opportunity to restart as what it initially was: a free trade zone but with closed borders.

Merkel needs to be stopped by all means because her policies will lead to the implosion of the European heartland and thus permanent destabilization of the continent. Merkel and her likes will keep the country in an iron clad so an external trigger is desperately needed.

Just today, Local.At mentions that Austria has climbed down from sending troops to Brenner's Pass to stop migrants from entering Austria through Italy.

There was hope that this tiny nation is standing up to the migrant flooding the western Europe, now that's gone.

The European Union has initiated legal action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to comply with a controversial order to take in thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East?

Can anybody tell me, just how will the EU enforce the result of any legal action against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic? Will they send a policeman with a summons, or a letter telling those countries they've been fined? Bullying is supposed to be frowned upon and even schools try to quell it, but the EU must think they're above the rules they themselves set.
Is it 'Don't do as I do: do as I say?

After Eastern Europe had suffered centuries of being raided by brutal Islamic slave traders, so much so that this is where the word slave derives, Poland lead a coalition that defended Europe against the Muslim invasion at the Gates of Vienna 11.9.1683. The EU's cultural insensitivity and ignorance of this history, is staggering!

Well said ministers of the Eastern Block. The elite across the western world have opened the gates of our once peaceful countries to a marauding presence that hates us. These elites in their gated communities, private schools and hospitals, do not suffer the demands, the intrusions and even the rape and murder of the Muslim hoards and so they keep the borders open to a cult that is already murdering the indigenous people of 40 countries in the world, when they have done that they continue to murder each other as in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq.

I reside in Czech Republic and can confirm that should there be any litigation that would result in monetary penalties, the majority of locals would be glad to support paying up.

The minuscule Islamic minority in the country should never be expanded, and any sign of Sharia creeping immediately acted upon.

Not the Visegrad countries should be fined, but Italy and Greece for failing to keep the Muslims out of Europe.

You see, Czech Republic even took in several migrants who...proceeded to escape to Germany! The police caught them and the Czechs righftully decided they had it. Meanwhile Slovakia took in some Middle Eastern Christians and some of them returned home, most settled in well and INTEGRATED into this Christian country. I am a Slovak, I was watching this in the media and our allegedly xenophobic, racist, fascist (...) was covering the migrant Christians very nicely and encouragingly. However, we also have a very bad experience from the Ottoman empire (and many quite scary folk songs about 'how the Turkish are coming') and we see no reason to repeat this all over again. Outlaw and destroy wahhabism, then we can talk again.

I wish the Polish lady was our prime minister.

Common sense is prevailing in the Eastern bloc countries simply because they have all previously lived under a totalitarian system. They have lived with it for years, whereas the idiots in the EU countries once liberated after the last war have had it easy. There is always a price to pay for freedom, the eastern bloc knows this sadly the west doesn't.

Kudos to Gatestone; another cogent article on the pressing issue of Islamic immigration and the Islamization of Europe. Americans are woefully ignorant of Islamic culture and ideology which is the real issue. It is not individuals but the ideology that many bring with them. It is almost impossible to vet individuals based upon ideological proclivities. This begs the question; how do you protect your culture without painting the Islamic world with a broad brush?

Why is the topic of treason not entering this discussion? EU Central forcing V4 to accept both unvetted economic migrants who pose a threat to cultural identity and economic stability AND enemy hostiles who pose a threat to national security was never agreed to. And any such force, should it materialize, is ultimately an act of treason. And it is by virtue of this dimension of treason that any kind of punitive action that might be imposed by Macron/Merkel/EU would be unlawful. By virtue of unlawful conduct in the face of treason, V4 has a very real case to justify leaving the EU, and without penalty. It's pretty basic... V4 does not need to be on the defensive on this. Accepting unvetted economic migrants comprised overwhelmingly of battle-aged, unskilled men, with hostiles among them, is nobody's duty, and not an option for V4. We'll just leave the EU, and we will do so without compensating a fraudulent and unlawful act of treason.

How about Czechxit, Hungxit and Polxit?

Finally! European leaders who can think straight! Europe is burning while it's so-called leaders are fiddling (like Emperor, Nero while Rome burned)

Having given serious thought to this entire Islamic migrants situation and the position resolutely taken by Europe's major leaders, I cannot help but conclude that they must be playing out a script whose end is deliberate and determined. They are setting the stage for a major crisis, that is designed to end in the collapse of the nation state world order, so as to facilitate the New World Order which is a one world government system, devoid of physical borders. To achieve that, the present one has to be pulled down.

Why do I say so? Here's why. A cursory study of Islam (which is more of a political/legal system than a religion) will disclose that Islam does not cohabitation peacefully with any other political/legal or religious system. Islam's nature is to dominate and subjugate everyone and everything else and the Muslims are relentless about that. They plan meticulously and work relentlessly till they achieve their goal and history is replete with examples of the outcomes of Islamic conquests. Mass beheadings. Mass rape. Mass slavery. These European Union leaders KNOW these things and yet they are populating Europe with Muslim migrants who see European cities as potential conquests and their women as war BOOTY! I believe it's DELIBERATE! European leaders have sold their people down the river for political reasons and with the exception of Poland, Hungary, Estonia and a few other Eastern and central European nations, all top European leaders should be tried for high treason. They know these things and that's why they circle their wagons to ensure that leaders like Gert Wilders and Marine Le Pen do not get elected, and stop the madness. The same reasons why they're now joining forces to ensure that the immigrants' supporter in chief (Angela Merkel) remains in power until Germany is completely overrun by Islam! The Europe we used to know and love is gone and is never coming back but if anything of it is to be salvaged at all, then the current crop of Western European leaders must be swept aside and a new set of people with commonsense must take their place.

I hope it's not too late, even for that.

Thank you, Mr Kern/Gatestone. But how does one say in Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Slovak, "Hey, EU, go to the dickens with your immigrants, or better yet, send them to the deserts of Saudi Arabia where the handsome, young princes in flowing robes just back from their vacations on the Riviera and the Alps can take care of the three-week old widows and the three-week old orphans."
This nonsense is exactly why red-blooded Americans elected Trump, so that we would not have any meddling in who comes in to the United States.

I am seeing the beginning of the demise of the European Union. When unelected, non citizens out of Belgium can ORDER another country to do something that they believe is harmful (mass Muslim Immigration to that country) to the well being and safety of that country then its over. No union. No Muslim immigration.

The Eastern European countries have had the unpleasant advantage of being subjugated by the Soviet Union, and should be able to see what's coming, if they are paying attention. The European Union is gradually taking control over nearly everything within member states through its laws, courts, regulations, treaties, agreements, and the dictates or its various commissions and agencies. It intends to become the government of Europe, and any member state that wants to retain its independence, culture, and economic freedom had better be considering following the British example, and leaving (though in a much more straightforward manner).

Many of the trade benefits that attracted most to join have gradually disappeared. France and Germany are the main beneficiaries of the system of protective tariffs and subsidies, and the rest of the members who are forced to buy high-priced EU products (rather than be free to import goods from non-EU countries that would be much cheaper without EU tariffs) gain little, or nothing, from membership. The EU projects and subsidies, which are basically bribes to buy compliance, are going to have to be reduced without the money coming from the UK to help pay for them. If the present push to absorb the militaries of all member states into unified military commanded from Brussels is completed, it may not be possible to defy their rule.

The intentional importation of millions of Muslims (if they didn't want them in Europe, they would prevent them from coming, and expel any who did), and forcing member states to accept them and provide for them is only one minor part of EU tyranny -- but, in itself, reason enough to leave.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The EU has been an unmitigated disaster. God bless these Central European countries for standing up to this insane bullying.

If the European Union fines these countries, the simple answer is to deduct the fine imposed from the EU contribution, certainly that will probably leads to further retaliatory fines, which can be deducted from future EU Budget Contributions.

Were does this lead the EU, into a financial sink hole, where it is headed anyway, it will only accelerate break up this unholy Union, which in the long term is a failed experiment that was doomed the minute the EU evolved into a Union with federal governing ambitions instead of remaining a free trade zone.

If European civilisation last another 100-150 years, it will be interesting to know what future historians make of the omnishambles that is the EU.

The fundamental question is - do the nations in the EU wish to maintain full sovereignty?
If they do then the only solution is to depart the union.
The European Union is a failed experiment. The European Monetary Union is even more so.
In the nature of human behavior the EU/EMU now has a committed elite with an accompanying bureaucracy which have a lot of skin in the game. They will fight tooth and nail to maintain their privilege. We are seeing that writ large in their reaction to the UK decision to exit.
The EU/EMU is doomed to be a just another chapter in the history of human folly but there is a lot of shouting and screaming (or worse) to be done before that desirable outcome.

I feel for the citizens of the U.K. If I might make a suggestion, arm yourselves, you are going to need it.
The upside of living the U.S...we have the biggest armed Army on the planet.....the citizens.
I suggest you Brits get with it.

Western Civilization is committing suicide and our generation is watching it in real time. What is most horrifying is what we're leaving for our progeny, our children and grandchildren and so on. We're responsible for this disaster because of our moral cowardice, our indifference, our acceptance of political correctness, our abandonment of faith, virtue and family. We're leaving our progeny with a more dangerous, a less free with less liberty world, a more violent and brutal world than what we inherited. We should hang our heads in shame.

What a joy to read sensible statements from some political leaders at last. Muslims have been seeping in to the UK for decades and the people have objected but no government would take action to defend our borders. Tony Blair (on whose name be shame) deliberately made it worse, and now it is too late for us. Perhaps one day the Eastern European countries will be willing to receive refugees, i.e natives from UK and other places getting out of their own countries which have been taken over. Islam brings poverty with it, but the Protestant work ethic generally results in prosperity.

For anyone living outside of the EU, who remains unaware of the insanity that the Brussels dictatorship exerts upon its vassal member states, read this article and understand. These are brave words from the leaders of these Eastern European countries and I applaud their leaders for having the strength and conviction to state them. However, they are net recipients of EU funding and contribute nothing to the EU "trough".

Today, in the UK, we have been informed by Brussels that, should we dare to leave the sclerotic cabal, yet another punishment awaits us: we will still be subject to European Court of Justice [sic} laws, which will over-ride British law. That is after we LEAVE! This will entail fines etc.

The EU are a bunch of deluded, infantile thugs; they will bully any member state which defies them in any respect. The UK does not have the brave leaders of the Eastern European Visegrad quartet. However, it is the second largest net contributor, and our money will be sorely felt. Hence a year's worth since BREXIT of the vilest of threats.

Will the Czech, Pole, Hungarian and Slovakian leaders be so bold and courageous when Juncker cuts their handouts? I hope so but...

Although being a member of the EU brings economical advantages to countries that were behind the Iron Curtain, the consequences of admitting people from a totally different "culture" that become more and more demanding and disrespectful of the culture, religions, traditions, etc. while striving to impose their own on the host countries are catastrophic.

I wonder if following Great Britain's example of leaving EUrabia is an option for Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. The EU wants revenge, they are already demanding billions of Euros from Britain as a punishment for the Brexit. The EU has achieved lots of good things, but the exorbitant salaries plus extra money for "representation costs," first class flights, hotels, restaurants, acquiring VAT free merchandises and other privileges for EU officials and members of the European Parliament, idiotic regulations, the moving of this Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg and vice versa twelve times a year for "la Gloire de la France" etc. make "common people" fed up with the squandering of taxpayers' money.

The EU needs radical changes, it needs to be more transparent and be managed by capable, sensible people. I also wonder why nobody in Europe, Canada and the US has ever thought of reminding Saudi Arabia that THEY should be the first to admit their suffering brothers and sisters in Allah! Europe is paying already lots of money to Turkey for refugee camps there. How much money is super wealthy Saudi Arabia giving for their brothers and sisters in Allah? Just asking...

NOW is the time for we Americans to take sides. If we choose not to it will surely be to our detriment.

Many of us are of this stock, and many here understand that of which the Eastern bloc nations speak. They remember their common history. A history of which most of us US citizens were never told or taught. We see the Barbary Pirates as free independent fun loving rapscallion of the old movies, not as the thieves, killers, and the slavers that they really were.

Few here know that our people were taken as slaves by them for many years. Few know that we fought and beat them back and freed our own from them. Few know that that fight was one of our first that the US Navy Marine Corp participated in and came out handily against large odds. The shores of Tripoli is where it happened.

We have professors over here teaching that we were forced to sign a treaty with the Caliphate when the exact opposite is true. Let us stand up now.

At least some EU countries are showing some spine as this disastrous situation becomes worse daily...God bless them all.

It's about time someone stood up to the global elites in the EU. The leaders of these few countries have common sense, something the EU leaders lack. I hope they stand their ground against these EU dictators.

While the Central Europe nations attend to building their economies and safeguarding their people's lives, Germany moves in a direction of "nothingness" with what it obviously considers most important, passing a law concerning marriage for "same sex couples." Under Merkel and the EU which suffers from the curse of myopia, Germany plus other EU members espousing the same priorities as self-destructive Germany, attend to their own burial preparations. While Germany legislates laws which will expose "same-sex" couples to the followers of Islam in Germany, goaded by directives concerning homosexuality, they will yet have another reason to mortally attack those Germans availing themselves of "same sex" marriages. Makes sense? In 1400 years +- of Islam, such status' doomed the "same sex marriage" couples. Another Merkel failure in the making!
Is she of sound mind? I believe she is definitely not of sound mind, nor is her legislative assembly.

So they refuse to settle where the financial benefits are not as good as in other parts of Europe? Simple solution - send them back to their own native countries. Since when does any asylum seeker dictate to the government where they are going to settle?

The migrants are all seeking welfare, not opportunity. They try to sneak into trains in the Chunnel because "The salary is better" in Britain, meaning of course the Dole.

Greetings:

When this brouhaha first garnered a bit of my attention, it occurred to me that Catholicism might be a part of the equation that was not being mentioned or seriously addressed. While your article mentioned "Christian" this and that, Catholicism itself seems to get short shrift. Looking at France (trés secular, non), Germany, and Great Britain, I see no great Catholic affinity politics-wise. Indeed, when La Belle France trumpets "values", what I think is "And what "values" exactly might those be?". As the EURO-Borg switches to "democratic" enforcement mode, will the slippage of that mask reveal another bit of unraveling ???

One more thing, if I may. My current understanding is that France has had a 10% admitted unemployment rate for the last five socialist years. And yet its rulers think it wise to bring in a human wave of obviously unemployed people at such a time.

Nice country you got there. Be a shame if anything didn't happen to it.

I don't blame Eastern European countries for refusing large numbers of Muslim would-be refugees who do not share European values of democracy, tolerance, rights for women, and I do not blame the refugees for preferring to live in western or northern Europe, I would too. The solution that all of Europe should agree is to send most of them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil states who have plenty of money, a similar religion and climate and language to what they know.

The European Union has initiated legal action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to comply with a controversial order to take in thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

This is the sort of nonsense that happens when a nation decides to join a club like the E.U. One can kiss one's sovereignty away. The Socialists have been open about their desire to destroy cultures and do away with borders. One cannot blame immigrants to go to the richest providers but one has to wonder if these people are willing to adapt to new cultures or create alternate states within the borders of the nations willing to take immigrants. This is a real, not imagined, threat. I wonder how long it will take for the native populations of England, Germany and other nations to wake up.

Thank you Soeren Kern and Gatestone for sharing this very encouraging message! It gives us hope that only Western Europe has gone deaf, dumb and blind to the 'Jihadist Invasion' of their countries and that Central and Eastern Europe sees the danger, has responded intelligently and with purpose. Reading this is like Deja Vu all over again! Brussels is the Washington DC 'Deep State'. Germany and France are California and New York. Poland and Slovakia are Texas and Arizona. Merkel and Macron are Clinton and Obama. And, ... Orban is Trump! Into the 'Looking Glass' the Left will always go, ... and this time hopefully, to never ever return again!

I find it admirable that these central European countries are not accepting the fake refugees/economic welfare migrants and understand the dire situation.

This is totally unacceptable! Who are they who refuse to obey the Orwellian European so called Union and islamize their countries! They want to preserve their culture and leave a peaceful life??? No way! They must take example of France, Germany and especially Sweden who are happy to give up their culture, security and even freedom to satisfy EU and it's islamic proteges! Shame on them! It would be interesting to observe these countries' behaviour when thousands of native Germans, Belgians, French and other western Europeans will start knocking at their doors asking for asylum.

I do hope, that Poland, the Czech Republic and in Hungary will stand firm in their rejection of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.
Most countries in Western Europe seem determined to commit a cultural as well as an economic and social suicide.
In a few years, we may see people fleeing from West to East like people from then communist Eastern Europe fled to freedom in the West.
German chancellor Angela Merkel's remark "We will manage that" will go down in history like Neville Chamberlain's infamous "Peace in our time" shortly before the outbreak of WWII.

Finally someone with a brain. Unfortunately, it is, probably too late. Western Europe is going --- or has gone already to the dogs. As for Eastern Europe --- they have the right idea, but it is probably also too late. The Muslims have taken Europe over, with the help of the European Union, while the rest of the European citizens were fast asleep. It is sad, but true. Thank you Soeren Kern and Gatestone.

The leaders of the Central and Eastern European countries have it exactly right. Some historians believe that the European Dark Age was the result of the Muslim invasion of the Middle East and North Africa as most Mediterranean trade ceased thereby impoverishing countries. Furthermore, the reason Columbus wanted to find another way to China and India was because Muslims with their invasions had closed the overland routes. Muslims have been a plague on European society; yet, they refuse to learn from history.

Three words:

EU will collapse.

You cannot force things on sovereign states ad infinitum. It's simply impossible.

Common sense and historic experience inform the decisions of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. They should stand firm for their national rights. The EU does not have the legal right to force these nations to accept migrants they deem unacceptable.

Canada is the worst in accepting mostly phony refugees. Our brain dead and possibly bi-polar like his mother Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to accept 350,000 after already accepting 50,000 of which only 10% are employed and half of those are part time jobs. This will turn into a multi-generational multi-billion dollar welfare drain. Justin Trudeau is the biggest and best example of a corrupt ethnic vote pandering politician. If he is re-elected in 2018 Canada is doomed.

About time...some sanity is needed here. These people are NOT refugees--they are economic migrants who want to turn Europe into an Islamic state. they have displayed no gratitude, nor do they respect the local customs and religion. They demand Islam and mosques. The Poles and Czechs are quite right to reject this. The solution is: tow these ships back to Libya--do NOT bring them to Italy or Greece. Send the word that no refugees will be admitted...and prosecute the traffickers.

After Brexit should follow Visegradexit. The remnant EU will enjoy itself more than enough with Afro-entry.

Great article, thanks.

It's funny, I've finished reading the article and I find myself considering the words from these politicians in these brave nations, as I scroll down the page I see a list of other articles relating to Europe and the Migrant Disaster. What do I see?
Germany: Police powerless against Middle Eastern crime gangs.
Germany: Migrant sex crimes double in one year.
Germany: Surge in stabbings and knife crimes.
Germany: Wave of Muslim honour killings.

Wow. There's an indictment for the actions of these politicians, if I've ever seen one before. Bitter, bitter irony, really. Germany starts this nightmare for Europe - and look at Germany now. I have no doubt of course, that if I were to search under the Migrant section of articles on this website, I would see more articles of the same for Sweden, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland etc etc.

Western Europe is doomed. Time will tell if Eastern Europe will be able to withstand the stormfront approaching. There's every chance they will be forced to turn to Russia for help in repelling the advances.

Germany, as per usual, for the THIRD TIME in a century or so, is responsible for what looks to be, another World War. Clearly, the rest of the world - all of us - have not learned from the last two. Germany is a menace and a danger to everyone else around them and in their way.

"Show me the money" works! It seems economics is driving "the poor refugees." Bravo for the proof.

I have so much respect and masses of admiration for the European Countries who are refusing to bow to the EU elite! Bravo, every single one of the leaders making a stand against they bullying tactics used to force countries to accept members of a death cult that have every intention of harming their citizens. Stuff the EU! They were responsible for this mess, or to be more honest, Mrs Merkel is totally responsible for this mess. To use blackmail just goes to show what sort of organisation the EU really is. Worse than the school playground bully, who at heart is a coward! Unable to cope with the chaos they themselves created they then look frantically around for someone else to shoulder the blame. What amazes me is how the German people are reacting to what Muslim terrorists have done in their country, they still favour Frau Merkel's approach in accepting Muslims, crazy! The country as a whole will live to regret letting in so many Muslims, as will Britain and France, as well as Austria, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Europe is well on the way to witnessing a massive disaster of epic proportions and those ignorant naive politicians who were responsible for the chaos will walk away free. Islam is no good for the West no matter what the foolish elitists may say!