French refugee call
World snapshot President demands Europe do its fair share of carrying load Muslim president given thumbs-down by candidate
NO EUROPEAN country can get out of taking in refugees who have the right to asylum, French President Francois Hollande has claimed.
His call came amid a row over how to fairly distribute a huge influx of migrants across the continent.
The redistribution “must involve all European countries – no one can be exempt or we would no longer belong to the same union built on values and principles,” Mr Hollande said during a visit to Morocco, leading in to tomorrow’s EU crisis summit on a proposal to spread 120,000 refugees across member states.
Mr Hollande told a press conference in Tangiers he had instructed his Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to defend the plan for mandatory quotas at a meeting of his counterparts. A REPUBLICAN presidential candidate does not believe a Muslim should be elected to the nation’s top office, stirring up more controversy for a party that professes a commitment to broaden its appeal and promote tolerance.
Presidential candidate Ben Carson, a devout Christian, said a president’s faith should matter to voters if it ran counter to America’s values and principles. The
“We will ensure that this mechanism is effective regardless of its terms, that commitments can be kept and that it’s not always the same countries who are receiving the refu- retired neurosurgeon described Islam as inconsistent with the US Constitution, a document that guaranteed freedom of religion.
“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” Mr Carson said in an interview on Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press. ‘‘I absolutely would not agree with that.”
He did not specify in what way Islam ran counter to constitutional gees,” the French leader said.
Several eastern European countries, notably Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have rejected the idea of accepting a share of migrants under national quotas that reflect populations and economic strength.
The escalating crisis saw thousands of migrants shunted from one border to another over the weekend.
Thousands entered Austria aboard crowded buses and trains yesterday, while at least 13 refugees drowned off Turkey, the latest to die as they try to escape conflict in their home countries mostly in the Middle East and Africa. principles. Mr Carson has been running second to businessman Donald Trump in polls. He has picked up support by appealing to socially conservative evangelical voters, a key Republican bloc in the Iowa caucuses that lead off the state-by-state nominating contests next year.
Republican leaders had hoped the 2016 campaign would offer a chance at redemption and the
The talks between the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Latvia with their counterpart from Luxembourg, which holds the EU presidency, are aimed at addressing divides between neighbouring states.
Six children were among those who died off the coast of Turkey after the inflatable dinghy carrying them to Greece collided with a ship, Turkish media reported.
The dinghy was carrying at least 46 migrants to Lesbos, one of several islands inundated recently by tens of thousands of people from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere. chance to pitch to minorities beyond the party’s traditional core.
Frontrunner Mr Trump declined to correct a town hall participant who wrongly said President Barack Obama was a Muslim. Days later, Mr Carson spoke about Muslims and the presidency.
The remarks were described as “un-American” by a Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman.