Finnish Immigration Concerns Timo Soini

FINLAND: FM SOINI WAKES UP FROM STUPOR, SAYS FINLAND SHOULD COPY DENMARK’S ASYLUM SEEKER POLICY…….

This guy is so out of his depth, and all it took was a few months as an FM to show us.

That said, the rest of the surrender monkeys in the National Coalition (KOK) and Center Party are no better, in fact, worse.

Soini: Finland should follow Denmark’s tough stance on asylum seekers

The Finnish foreign minister and eurosceptic Finns Party chair Timo Soini says Finland should “significantly restrict” the “generosity” of its social benefits for refugees.

Ulkoministeri Timo Soini (ps.) Brysselissä 14. joulukuuta. Kuvassa hänen kanssaan on Luxemburgin ulkoministeri Jean Asselborn.
Soini (right) in Brussels on 14 December with Luxemburg’s Foreign Minister, Jean Asselborn. Image: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP

Denmark has taken the Nordic region’s toughest stance against immigrants of late. Last week its government proposed that police should be able to confiscate cash from asylum seekers in order to cover their costs. In August the country approved a cut of nearly one half in social security benefits paid to those granted asylum.

Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini said on Monday that Finland should follow the Danish example.

“Certainly we could significantly restrict our social security and its generosity. That’s been done in Denmark, and I haven’t noticed that it’s broken any agreements,” he told Yle in Brussels.

In fact, after Denmark almost halved social security benefits for accepted asylum seekers, the UN refugee organisation criticised the decision, saying it violated the UN’s agreement on refugees.

Nordics move to limit arrivals

Nordic foreign ministers met on Monday in Brussels on the fringes of a meeting of EU foreign ministers (three of the five Nordic countries are EU members). They shared details on how asylum seekers are being treated in each country. Soini says the neighbouring countries are trying to avoid unhealthy competition on the issue.

That seems to mean that as one country tightens its asylum policy, the others follow suit. Last week the Finnish cabinet unveiled an 80-point plan to bring its policy in line with Sweden following its new, stricter line.

“Nordic welfare model won’t last”

“It’s clear that in the long term the EU, its social model and the Nordic welfare model won’t last if this continues,” said Soini.

The eurosceptic Finns Party chair demanded that other EU states carry as much responsibility as those that have taken in the most asylum seekers per capita: Sweden, Germany, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands.

“If EU is a community of solidarity as it is advertised, then it can’t be that a few countries bear the responsibility for this. We’re starting to approach the point where we can’t take care of it anymore,” he warned.

Yle

NOTE: This statist is still insisting that the “nordic model” is a success, should tell you everything that you need to know about him.

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