Europe’s refugee crisis is getting worse by the day.
Less than 24 hours after Germany announced it would impose border controls with Austria, followed promptly by the Czech Republic, Slovenia and now the Netherlands, German vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel predicted that as many as 1 million refugees may arrive by the end of the year as other nations moved to fortify their frontiers.
As Bloomberg notes, the revised prediction “underscored how quickly the numbers fleeing to Germany are spiraling upward. The official government estimate, released just a few weeks ago, is for roughly 800,000 in 2015, nearly four times the 2014 figure.”
Felix Braz, the justice minister of Luxembourg, underscored the severity of the situation: “Of course, the idea is not to prolong this, but it’s a short-term measure that should be in place for as short a time as possible,’ ‘A lot will depend on what comes out of Brussels this afternoon.”
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/14/2015.
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