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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on Europe to stop demonstrating generosity towards asylum seekers to avoid an overwhelming migrant influx. He also advises European states to make Africans' way to the continent much more difficult.
During an interview Germany's Welt am Sonntag, Gates, one of the richest people on the planet, warned of the grave consequences of exceeding generosity towards refugees coming to Europe, whose numbers would only rise unless something is done.
"On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this – which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa," Gates said.
While Germany has been one of the pioneers of the open door policy, it cannot "take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe." Thus Gates advised European nations to take action in order to make it "more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes."
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395356-migrants-overwhelm-europe-gates/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:16AM (1 child)
Engineers Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
Especially Engineers Without Borders should be better funded and more expansive.
The problem is they have modern weapons, but they have no modern infrastructure. Looks upside down to me. Modern infrastructure first, let weapons remain primitive. Humans have different priorities than I do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:26AM
Tell that to the US and UK Govs. They seem happy to send weapons to the Middle East whether directly or via Saudi Arabia.
If you observe carefully you'll realize the supplied arms and training aren't really to eliminate ISIS but to weaken Syria. Fighting ISIS happens from time to time but only to contain it (google for contain ISIS and you'll see that phrase come up often from the US military, they want something like ISIS)
They are happy to send "fuel" to keep the fires burning: http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html [latimes.com]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/10/uk-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-lawful-high-court-rules/ [telegraph.co.uk]