{"id":316196,"date":"2017-07-07T04:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-gates-europe-will-be-overwhelmed-unless-it-stems-flow-of-migrants\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:41:43","slug":"bill-gates-europe-will-be-overwhelmed-unless-it-stems-flow-of-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-gates-europe-will-be-overwhelmed-unless-it-stems-flow-of-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Europe Will be Overwhelmed Unless it Stems Flow of Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that Africa\u2019s population explosion will overwhelm Europe unless the continent makes it more difficult for migrants to reach its shores.<\/p>\n<p>The American billionaire\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.finanznachrichten.de\/nachrichten-2017-07\/41104179-bill-gates-migration-nach-europa-wird-zunehmen-003.htm\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a>\u00a0come as European leaders discuss what to do about the surging number of Africans arriving in Italy each week, with Rome calling for other European Union (EU) nations to open their ports to docking migrants so as to ease pressure on the Mediterranean nation.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the German\u00a0Welt am Sonntag\u00a0newspaper, Gates said massive population growth in Africa will result in \u201cenormous [migratory] pressure\u201d on Europe unless countries increase overseas development aid payments.<\/p>\n<p>Praising Germany having achieved its commitment to devote 0.7 per cent of GDP to foreign aid as \u201cphenomenal\u201d, the 61-year-old called on \u201cother European nations to follow its example\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But Gates also spoke of a dilemma caused by \u2018the German attitude to refugees\u2019, referring to Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to open Europe\u2019s borders to illegal migrants arriving from the third world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 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 \u00a0\u2014 which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa,\u201d Gates told the Sunday newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGermany cannot possibly take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, Gates&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/bill-gates-europe-will-be-overwhelmed-unless-it-stems-flow-of-migrants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that Africa\u2019s population explosion will overwhelm Europe unless the continent makes it more difficult for migrants to reach its shores. The American billionaire\u2019s\u00a0comments\u00a0come as European leaders discuss what to do about the surging number of Africans arriving in Italy each week, with Rome calling for other European Union (EU) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}