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I still have something to add. I DO BLAME Italians as other western Europeans since they voluntarily keep going on road to hell, now in the process of persuading easterns to join euro Titanic. Fabrizio, you know, that you goverment is doing something counter-productive, even harmful to your countrys future, yet you think about the way to share the problem with others, not about solutions or standing up for yourselves.
Small and poor Hungary can say no, but much larger, much richer Italy already submerged in troubles somehow keeps being submissive (this is also problem of Germany) to imaginary power in Brussels.
Speaking of welfare and immigration and Italy...
My state in the U.S. was relatively poor when I was a kid. A fair number of people in my age cohort remember their childhood as being one where some mysterious force dropped food and money on their families out of the sky from time to time. There was some basic (and probably wrong) notion that the money started out in the hands of rich bastards who could afford it. (I say wrong because of the way finance tends to work in a debt-based monetary system, and especially one which runs deficits.)
One person I know immigrated from the U.S. to Italy and says it's great because the welfare programs are better there and she doesn't care for work very much. She had a kid with an African dude. Dunno if they are formally married or not. She's still there as far as I know and still happily living on welfare.
Some german priest funnily enough suggested, that since 85% of these "refugees" are young men of military age, european tax payers should pay for their prostitutes to keep them harmless, yet in another german town family of eight was thrown out on street by the administration to free the building for 25 more refugees (as I wrote earlier, towns get more money for "refugees" from tax payers, than their own poor). This is as low, and spineless as it gets.
The way it is now, I am for cancellation of Shengen Treaty and reinstating borders withing Europe. With force if neccessary.
If I were a leader in Brussels I would see a certain utility in having a pool of military aged men dependent on financial (and other) support roaming the streets in various parts of the zone. If these newbies don't really give a crap about the culture of the host country and if there is a fair degree of mutual resentment between this new group and the original inhabitants, these new citizens could be quite useful in exercising physical force if it came to that. Most of the citizens of old Europe are relatively dis-armed as I understand things and would be sitting ducks. The perception here in the U.S. is that Europeans tend to be 'pussified' and not very willing or able to defend themselves and they probably would not have joined up under the EU banner in the first place if they were otherwise. Now they have and to stop the ball from rolling will be painful at best and may not be possible.
A test of my hypothesis about the utility of these 'refugees' would be to see how they are apportioned to the various regions in EU-land. If the more restive areas tend to be apportioned a larger share it would fit with my hypothesis about where the leadership in Brussels might be headed with this thing.