How was that number calculated?
Just a roundabout number the Greens came up with.
I also wondered how that should be done realistically....a strict kind of a selection process would be needed....and how should that work?
"You kid #1 can come but you kid #2 are a few months to old, sorry...and no you can't come either you are not sick enough for us!" ?And then there is the family not to forget. Even if you get an unaccompanied child out of this hellhole, there is a family waiting to come...you can't leave a child without his mama and papa purposely.
It had been probably all these questions which made the politicians decline..
Are they among the people who now wait in Turkey to get into Greece somehow?
That's another problem....it seems to be that the majority of people transported by the Turks to the greek border are NOT Syrians, but mostly from those groups who haven't gotten asylum status in Turkey either. Most of them won't get asylum status in the EU either...lost people...
Most probably another reason for the thumbs down!
Anyway, it seems Madame Merkel has taken it too high at a first go, so she has to be extremely cautious now.
She is so cautious you don't see or hear from her...she is lying very low!