They aren't used to working together outside of economic areas. Even then, France and Germany decides, everyone else follows.
Its the equivalent of TX and CA leading the US.........with people turning to Sacramento and Austin for direction rather than DC. And we've seen in the past what a mess is created when individual states try to set policy for the country.
The EU has policies in place to handle the current crisis but those policies are getting circumvented. Its ridiculous.
That is going to have to change.
Definitely if the EU is to survive.
Then there is this.
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Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, has already laid the groundwork. In January 2014 he called for an infusion of 50,000 immigrants as part of a program to revitalize Detroit, and signed an executive order creating the Michigan Office for New Americans.
Syrian refugees would be an ideal community to realize this goal, as Arab-Americans are already a vibrant and successful presence in the Detroit metropolitan area. A 2003 survey by the University of Michigan of 1,016 members of this community (58 percent of whom were Christian, and 42 percent Muslim) found that 19 percent were entrepreneurs and that the median household income was $50,000 to $75,000 per year.
I've said it before I think Snyder is the best R governor out there. He has been pretty capable at leading Detroit and MI out of the economic disaster they were in back in 2008. I don't agree with him on some of his stances on social issues, but other wise, I think he is fairly capable and progressive. And I think any country in which the Syrians land will benefit.......to me, many of these Syrians look like the middle and upper middle classes and are well educated. |
