Despite growing opposition, the EU is really doubling down on its aggressive push to distribute Muslim migrants across Europe. This is being described as "fair", but that's as fair as your neighbor setting his house on fire and then demanding that you either let him move in with you or he'll set your house on fire.
Merkel decided to open the doors to any Muslim who wanted to come. Greece chose to pass them along without caring in the least what other countries would suffer. But other countries are supposed to be penalized for Merkel's bleeding heart.
The European Commission made a proposal on Wednesday to automatically distribute asylum-seekers across the EU from member states overwhelmed by arrivals.
Depending on the number of asylum seekers in the European Union, each country would be assigned a "fair share", based on the size of its population and economy. Should it face arrivals exceeding 1.5 times the fair share, automatic relocation would start to other EU states until it drops again.
There's nothing fair about any of this. Nor is it much of a plan because the Muslim migrants have repeatedly said that they want to go to Germany or Sweden. And they want specific cities with large Muslim populations. Trying to send them to Poland won't work for very long.
Countries could exempt themselves from relocation for one year at a time if they pay 250,000 euros per refugee they would otherwise need to take in to the country that accommodates the person.
The figure is meant to be "dissuasive" and is very high compared to 6,000 euros for every relocated person as offered by the European Commission last year under an emergency relocation plan that was due to cover 160,000 people.
That's around $280K US. And rather few European countries can afford that. And since Muslim migrants keep coming, the question becomes moot anyway. As countries continue being overwhelmed, the figures will go on being recalculated.
While any reform would only apply mid- to longer-term, a calculation for Poland, the biggest eastern EU state, shows it would have to pay some 1.6 billion euros for fewer than 7,000 people it was assigned - but never took in - under the 160,000 plan.
Of course this isn't going to shut down anything. It's just meant to make Germans and some others feel better that other countries will do their "fair share". It's a political divide and conquer strategy.
Meanwhile smuggling migrants into Europe is a $7 billion business. And that's not counting the payoffs that Turkey's Islamist government will be getting.