This is how they operate.
Look at how they twist reality with their verbal gymnastics:
He also said this means the 120,000 refugee relocation scheme is “voluntary”.
“The total remains 120,000 persons. Now these figures have been accepted by member states on a voluntary basis”.
But he added that opponents must abide by the outcome of the vote.
“No country has the right to refuse”, he said. “I have no doubt that they will implement these decisions fully in line with community law”.
Orwell’s 1984 in present day black & white.
EU forces ‘voluntary’ migrant relocation on eastern states
By NIKOLAJ NIELSEN AND ESZTER ZALAN
EU states agreed a legally binding plan Tuesday (22 September) on relocation of 120,000 refugees, in a vote which thwarted opposition from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
The vote marks an unusual EU step, in terms of forcing a minority of EU states to take action on issues of national sovereignty.
In a sign of wider opposition, Finland abstained.
“We’ve reached an agreement with a very big majority, bigger than required by [the EU] treaty. We would have preferred unanimity, and it’s not because we haven’t tried”, Luxembourg foreign minister Jean Asselborn told press after the meeting in Brussels.
He said the EU Council decision doesn’t include a European Commission “key” on how to calculate national relocation quotas, based on population size and wealth.
He also said this means the 120,000 refugee relocation scheme is “voluntary”.
“The total remains 120,000 persons. Now these figures have been accepted by member states on a voluntary basis”.
Very few things are as clearly ‘wrong’ as this whole drama is. An irresponsible decision motivated by some warped mix of guilt and miplaced humanitarian sentiment in the mind of the female leader of the most powerful EU states gets translated into a continuously growing sense of unease in the minds of millions all over Europe.
How is this democratic? What would have happened instead if Merkel had said – ‘we want none of these economic migrants in Germany’ ? Most likely everyone would have agreed and welcomed her common sense as a breath of fresh air.
Instead she has lit a fire she won’t be able to put out. The EU simply cannot last if this is an example of its democracy.