All roads lead to…Germany

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A recent statement made by a Syrian refugee, quoted in a RFI Romania report these days, made me speak out what I’ve thought long before. “My uncle told us not to go to Romania. Germany is better,” reads the refugee’s statement.

Backed by many other reports capturing the recent immigrants’ way and proving they are actually heading up to the north, to Germany and Nordic countries, the statement could be the mirror of a striking reality: more than escaping their besieged countries, the refugees are seeking economic welfare and, as they’ve heard and maybe for good reason, this could be easily provided in countries like Germany, Belgium, Norway or Finland.

Maybe this is also the explanation that reporters and other witnesses found these refugees in Hungary, Austria not so very poor and helpless: they handle smartphones, they have enough money to pay the guides to take them to their final destinations, they are quite well informed, they have sources from other relatives, who are already living in Europe, to guide them on their journey.

Apart from the suppositions on a well-organized exodus managed by ISIS, Russia or whoever, which cannot be certified 100 percent and remains as a conspiracy theory for now, I believe the refugees’ issue is mainly a social and economic one and less an intelligence, a political matter.

Of course many asylum seekers lost their relatives and houses under the debris of the bombs, but maybe there are also a lot of them taking advantage of this migration wave to reach a more prosperous land so that they could meet their personal expectancies for a well paid job or social benefit, for better health and educational conditions for their children, for a better life in a nutshell.

As I presume: if you are so desperate because of a war, if you lost everything, when you seek asylum you have to make the best of what you are granted and any country that could offer a shelter, temporarily or not, should please you.

However, all we can read on almost every refugee’s lips is Germany or at least a Nordic country. The fact they are somehow stationary in Austria, Hungary and have been in Greece, Serbia, Macedonia logically enters into a geographical reckoning after all. This was thought to be the normal route to their El Dorado.

So, against this background all the European Commission’s accounting, all its mandatory quotas plans seem a little bit useless considering the refugees’ needs and final goals, it’s a sort of “bla-bla in the air”.

It’s like helping someone and this person does not like the outcome of your support and you wonder if you could still call it help under the circumstances.

On this ground we can all be refugees at some point when intending to immigrate to a wealthier country.

Of course, it remains to be seen if these suppositions have a real ground in a more or less foreseeable future or they are just long shot.

In the meantime, there is a gridlock on migrant sharing quotas between the EC and some member states, including Romania and the focus will prevail on that on the short time. It’s going to be a long interesting autumn from this point of view, which hopefully will not turn into “a winter of our discontent”.

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