European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread - Page 431

On March 01 2016 05:14 Velr wrote:
So how do big insurance companies handle this whiteout opening up the lottery?

On March 01 2016 03:22 Nyxisto wrote:


There are hundreds of thousands of people coming from the Middle-East who have legitimate asylum claims. The military can protect the border, but they will not shoot down refugees on the sea, that is in violation of about every EU members constitution and absolutely inhumane. Securing the outer borders will alleviate the situation, but not solve it.

On March 01 2016 05:50 cLutZ wrote:

What? Are you asking what they do if they can't trade in derivatives of ag? In that case they either issue less or smaller packages, and/or charge higher rates.

On March 01 2016 06:08 Velr wrote:



My "problem" is, why do we speculate with food like we do with Oil/Gold/Other ressources, enitre countries go into turmoil when certain goods get too expensive...

The insurance thing. You can trade with an insurances derivatives (and that is fine), you can't trade with specific plans that would kick in during specific events (i hope!) and there is a damn good reason for that.

On March 01 2016 05:56 Yuljan wrote:



Stop spreading lies. They do not have legitimate asylum claims. They cross safe countries before coming to the EU and civil war is not a reason for asylum anyway.

On March 01 2016 05:56 Yuljan wrote:



Stop spreading lies. They do not have legitimate asylum claims. They cross safe countries before coming to the EU and civil war is not a reason for asylum anyway.

On March 01 2016 02:49 Sent. wrote:
It''s less than 1% overall but those people won't settle proportionally across the whole Europe. Naturally most of them will stick together in big cities which can make the integration process really hard if not impossible. I have nothing against quota system btw, I just don't see how "it's just 1%" is supposed to convince anyone, there are much better arguments than this one.

On February 29 2016 03:52 Nyxisto wrote:
quite likely? What does that mean? How high is my chance to be sexually assaulted in a shopping mall and what is the significance of the wi-fi ? Also yes my statistics come from the past. I know that it is very lacklustre that I cannot report from the future for you but I will get on this issue immediately.

You're simply missing the narrative. The whole sexual assault thing is just a play on the old trope of foreign savages stealing our women and strangers jumping out of the bushes and so on. The idea is as old as human civilization and it still hasn't become more true.

On March 01 2016 07:05 lord_nibbler wrote:
Uninformed people urging others to stop spreading misinformation.
All three of you claims are factually wrong!
If you don't know what asylum is, then read up on it or stay quite on the issue. It's not that hard...

Germany can’t limit where refugees live solely based on financial considerations, the European Union’s highest court said in a case involving two Syrian immigrants that came to the country more than a decade before the current crisis.

The only time a country could limit where a refugee lives would be to help them integrate with the community, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg said in a ruling Tuesday. The status of the refugees would have to be completely different to that of other non-EU immigrants to a nation.

Under EU law, governments are generally required to let people “move freely within their territory but also to choose their place of residence within that territory,” the court said.

The German Interior Ministry didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Speaking on public television on Sunday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany's borders would remain open to refugees. Merkel dismissed a "rigid limit," saying that "there is no point in believing that I can solve the problem through the unilateral closure of borders."

"I have no plan B," Merkel said, adding that she is convinced she is on the right track with efforts to redistribute refugees within Europe and addressing the problems causing mass displacement: "I am fighting for this approach."

Merkel sought to reassure viewers by insisting that her government's strategy is the only "logical" one - and came about after much thought.

The chancellor said she was concerned about disputes over migrants within the EU, and added that a breakdown of the European Union must be avoided.

On March 01 2016 23:08 oneofthem wrote:
^not true. the 1951 definition has been expanded in two significant ways.
recognition of non-state persecution from social forces, due to one of the identity categories.
then there is recognizing indiscriminate violence in subsidiary protection

so an active warzone like syria or afghanistan will most likely give ground to at least subsidiary protection.

Dutch authorities identified about 30 war crimes suspects, a third of them Syrians, among the 59,000 people who applied for asylum last year, the immigration minister said on Monday.

Klaas Dijkhoff released the data in a letter amid an increasingly heated debate over immigration, stoked by an increase in arrivals from war zones across the Middle East.

He was responding to questions from members of parliament, many of whom have been calling on the government to start sending back migrants who are suspected of atrocities, or break Dutch laws.

Ten of the suspects were from Syria and the rest from Eritrea, Sudan, Nigeria, Georgia and other countries, he added, without going into further details.

Dijkhoff said the Syrians could not be sent home because international treaties prohibit forced repatriation to a country where there is ongoing conflict.

A backlash against immigration has boosted the Netherlands' far-right anti-Islam Freedom party, whose leader Geert Wilders is regularly rated the country's most popular politician.

On March 02 2016 02:16 OtherWorld wrote:

I'm actually quite impressed by Merkel. I'm pretty sure any normal politician would have abandoned that position some serious time ago already, but she keeps on fighting despite her gaining nothing from this.