{"id":232515,"date":"2016-03-19T02:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=232515"},"modified":"2016-07-23T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:19:52","slug":"soros-obama-merkel-erdogan-win-control-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/soros-obama-merkel-erdogan-win-control-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Obama-Merkel-Erdogan Win Control of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, March 18th, a combined effort by George Soros, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and Tayyip Erdogan, has arranged to get the EU to abandon previously sacrosanct fundamental human rights of refugees, and to transfer $6B+ to Turkey, in return for placing the refugee burden onto Turkey and getting Turkey to cooperate so as to assist the breakup of Syria, which will enable a gas-pipeline and an oil-pipeline to be built through Syria to enable Qatar\u2019s gas and Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil to be pipelined through Syria into the EU, so as to replace Russian oil and gas, which now fuel the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, in my rush translations from the original German-language reports at German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten<\/span><\/a>) are the key reports and headlines:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/2016\/03\/18\/tuerkei-deal-deutschland-koennte-grossteil-der-fluechtlinge-aufnehmen\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey deal: Germany could take majority of refugees<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Translated by Eric Zuesse from]\u00a0German Economic News<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Published:18:03:16 02:56\u00a0Clock<\/span><\/p>\n

The most important consequence of the EU summit is not in the official statement.\u00a0A\u00a0plan long discussed, now finalizing: Germany takes the majority of refugees from Turkey, and oil and gas\u00a0pipelines will replace Russian oil and gas to Europe by Saudi oil and Qatari gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe’s energy supply should result in future Syria.\u00a0(Graphic:\u00a0oilprice.net<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, the leaders of the European Union\u00a0mutually agreed with Turkey<\/b>\u00a0to cut Russia out of the EU gas market, cut Qatar [a U.S. ally] in.\u00a0They agreed in the early hours of Friday on a refugee-&-gas-pipeline package to be approved by the Turkish government.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This agreement will substantially correspond to the Pact of Angela Merkel with Turkish President Erdogan.\u00a0But it apparently comprises only a small portion of the agreement prepared between Germany, Turkey and the USA.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Gerald Knaus, director of the Soros-funded think tank “European Stability Initiative” (ESI), for many months now has been advising Chancellor Angela Merkel on the refugee crisis.\u00a0His ESI submitted the plan in October.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0original plan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0consists of two parts:\u00a0On the one hand, Germany should, during the coming year, “grant 500,000 Syrian refugees asylum, who are now in Turkey<\/b>.\u201d\u00a0Other European countries may participate, but on a voluntary basis.\u00a0At the same time Turkey will take from Greece “all new migrants.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Knaus, himself Austrian, told the Viennese daily\u00a0the press<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0that “in the background, a\u00a0more radical idea has already been largely negotiated\u201d which will “probably very soon be announced<\/b>“: Knaus said that a “coalition of the willing\u201d will take 900 Syrians per day \u2014 “no matter how many Syrians come to Greece.\u201d\u00a0This would be about 300,000 people per year \u2014 slightly less than in the original Soros plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for Europe’s acquisition of hundreds of thousands of refugees is obvious:<\/b>\u00a0The proposed EU summit one-to-one solution would not be enough to relieve Turkey significantly.\u00a0Moreover, it\u2019s not lawful from the perspective of the Geneva Convention, as\u00a0human rights organizations have complained since the start of the Soros proposal<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0The coalition of the willing currently consists of Germany, Portugal and Sweden. Austria has not yet agreed.\u00a0Presumably Merkel will move some other countries also to participate.\u00a0Thus, the plan could be presented as a European solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

From an organizational standpoint, Knaus thinks that consideration in Turkey of the plan will succeed in an agreement being reached.<\/b>\u00a0Knaus holds this to be essential.\u00a0He told the newspaper\u00a0Die Welt<\/span><\/a>: “The acceptance, by the public, of receiving the refugees is essential.\u00a0Had we in Europe started earlier with a quota solution, we\u2019d be farther along today.\u00a0I think that also Sweden and Austria would have been on our side.\u00a0Unfortunately, the process in the past year fell out of control.\u00a0We had no idea who is coming into our country.\u00a0This fueled fears. “<\/span><\/p>\n

The Soros plan is apparently agreed with the US government.<\/b>\u00a0Angela Merkel supported in this way the geopolitical plans of the Americans, who have a special interest in developing their energy policies in the region. They are planning the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).\u00a0Construction of TAP is pushed by the United States.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This will run from the Turkish border via Greece, Albania and the Strait of Otranto to Italy.\u00a0Thus,\u00a0one of the main refugee routes to Europe, which is particularly overloaded after the closure of the Balkan route, will be cleared for pipelining gas into Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further destabilization of the TAP region is therefore not in the interests of the United States.<\/b>\u00a0They also want to ensure that Europe is supplied via a pipeline that’s under US control, not under Russian control.\u00a0The US and Russia are fighting for the European energy market<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is interesting in this context that\u00a0a competing Russian pipeline through Syrian territory could also result.<\/b>\u00a0The surprising retreat of the Russians from Syria might suggest that there could be an agreement between Russia and the US: In this way, the geopolitical interests of both Great Powers could be safeguarded.\u00a0The relationship between the pipeline projects and the war in Syria has the raw material site\u00a0Oilprice.net analyzed in order<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that all parties want to solve the dependence of Saudi oil.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this connection the role of the Americans is also in the media\u00a0largely ignored regarding the visiting US diplomat Victoria Nuland in Idomeni.<\/b>\u00a0Nuland’s\u00a0pithy sayings (such as “fuck the EU”) and her role in Ukraine, made her try to become known as a Goodwill Ambassador for Europe; she Thursday visited the refugee camps in the northern Greek Idomeni, reports\u00a0Kathimerini<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Turkish news portal\u00a0Haberler<\/span><\/a>\u00a0reports what Nuland said in Idomeni: “More needs to be done for these people here.\u00a0Athens has made a direct request to Washington.\u00a0In this difficult situation, I’m here, for American-Greek solidarity.\u00a0We will work together to solve the problem of distribution of refugees within the EU.\u00a0<\/b>In addition, we want to help ensure that the deal between the EU and Turkey is fair and transparent.\u00a0It’s time to better accommodate the migrants. “<\/span><\/p>\n

On 11 March, Nuland met with representatives of the Greek government in Athens to discuss the full range of bilateral and regional issues, including the request for assistance of Greece to the United States, in solving the migration problem,\u00a0reported the US State Department<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

This context could explain also\u00a0why Angela Merkel has waited so long to go to the German public with a real plan for the refugee crisis\u00a0<\/b>\u2014 even though they have long been familiar with the Soros plan and he apparently also laid the basis with the Chancellor for Turkey jointly to launch the proposal at the EU summit: this was to help Merkel\u00a0not to inflame sentiment in Germany before\u00a0the state elections.\u00a0Because the message that Germany could possibly be the only country to take a large number of refugees, would have a serious impact that has led even without this perspective to tectonic shifts in favor of the AFD [anti-immigrant party].<\/span><\/p>\n

Knaus sees the\u00a0Ankara-Berlin axis as being crucial for geopolitical orientation against Russia.<\/b>\u00a0He said in an international interview that Germany made the mistake of placing undue reliance on the EU Commission: “Germany has early understood much.\u00a0But it made the mistake of relying too much on the implementation by the Commission.\u00a0Germany should have taken matters into its own hands earlier.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Knaus sees the role of Germany as partners with Turkey and the USA.<\/b>\u00a0Here lies the common interest to host the refugees: “Germany does not expire like other states in an anti-Islam rhetoric.\u00a0At the same time it sees Ankara, in a delicate geostrategic position between anti-Muslim governments in Europe and a strong Putin.\u00a0A successful and connected partnership between Berlin and Turkey may be worth a lot for Turkey and its approach to Europe.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This closes the circle for the TAP pipeline:\u00a0The Americans want to snatch the European energy market away from Russia.<\/b>\u00a0In the absence of our own energy policy, Europeans are currently completely dependent on Russia.\u00a0If both pipelines – quasi in a duopoly of the Americans and the Russians – are built, the energy policy space for the EU would increase significantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u00a0led to the present situation, a murderous war that’s driven hundreds of thousands from Syria and Iraq.<\/b>\u00a0It\u00a0had to be, from a geopolitical point of view of the parties \u2014 Russia, the US and the EU \u2014 regarded as collateral damage.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, the Soros plan would in fact lead to the result that the right of asylum would be respected so that\u00a0immigration to Europe is not completely disordered<\/b>.\u00a0What guarantees that the EU gets Turkey to treat the refugees humanely, is completely unclear.\u00a0It also is unclear whether the acceptance of refugees in Germany can be satisfactorily prepared.\u00a0It also remains open whether the EU will have, as a result of the apparent cleavage of the project, neither the power to play as a political union, nor a role that goes beyond that of simply a large, attractive market.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EU and Turkey Reach Agreement<\/b><\/a>\u00a0on Refugees<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The EU and Turkey have agreed on a deal.\u00a0The deal enters into force on March 20.\u00a0From then on, refugees who arrive irregularly in Greece will be returned to Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0March 18, 2016, 19:08\u00a0Clock<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Shabby EU-Turkey deal is a day of mourning for asylum”<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The human rights organization Pro Asyl has sharply condemned the deal with Turkey.\u00a0Today is a day of mourning for the right of asylum.\u00a0The organization announces that it will file lawsuits.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0March 18, 2016, 19:00\u00a0Clock<\/span><\/p>\n

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EU deal: Turkey does not agree to respect human rights<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>A<\/b><\/span>ngela Merkel and Dutch Mark Rutte at the summit in Brussels.\u00a0(Ph<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The deal with Turkey stipulates that Turkey serves as large refugee camps for the EU.\u00a0Turkey seems to have succeeded to determine the standards for the treatment of refugees and migrants.\u00a0A commitment to respect for human rights was deleted from the final document.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0March 18, 2016, 18:13\u00a0Clock<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0and of<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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