{"id":413,"date":"2016-04-10T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2016-04-10T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T04:06:11","slug":"two-thirds-of-germans-want-borders-closed-half-say-no-more-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Two Thirds Of Germans  Want Borders Closed, Half  Say No More \u2018Refugees\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%;\">Two Thirds Of Germans <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%;\">Want Borders Closed, Half <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%;\">Say No More \u2018Refugees\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>1813<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>1<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-17.32.29-640x480.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Sean Gallup\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #777777;\"><i>by<\/i><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/liam-deacon\/\" target=\"_blank\">LIAM DEACON<\/a><span style=\"color: #777777;\">6 Apr 2016<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2016\/04\/06\/two-thirds-germans-want-borders-closed-half-say-no-refugees\/#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\">480<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Two-thirds of Germans want their government to end open borders and almost half insist their country cannot take any more \u2018refugees\u2019.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Across most major European Union (EU) nations people are quickly losing faith in open borders, the survey by French <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifop.com\/?option=com_sector&amp;sector=1&amp;language=2\" target=\"_blank\">pollsters Ifop<\/a> found.<br \/>\nMore than 60 per cent of Italians are against free movement, and 72 per cent of French people wanted some borders to be closed.<br \/>\nRising sharply from just one-third in September 2015, now nearly half of people in Germany \u2014 47 per cent \u2014 also insisted that it would not be possible to absorb any more \u2018refugees\u2019 given the million plus who walked into the country last year.<br \/>\nThe number was even higher elsewhere. More than 60 per cent of both Italians and French people contacted by the pollsters said there was no possibility of taking in more migrants.<br \/>\nAccording to Ifop opinion research director J\u00e9r\u00f4me Fourquet, the results show the terror attacks in Brussels and Paris, \u201cstoked the feeling that things have escalated out of control\u201d,<i>S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/umfrage-in-europa-die-mehrheit-der-deutschen-will-nationale-grenzen-zurueck-1.2933368\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u201cBefore, people always said that an end to Schengen would mean the beginning of the end of the whole EU,\u201d Mr. Fourquet continued.<br \/>\nHowever, despite the sporadic controls that have already appeared on many European borders since the migrant crisis began, \u201cEurope isn\u2019t falling apart,\u201d he claimed.<br \/>\nTerrorism and radical Islam certainly appear to be a large factor in changing attitudes across Europe: 79 per cent of Germans, 80 per cent of the French, and a whopping 84 per cent of Italians are now convinced some migrants are potential terrorists.<br \/>\nGermans, meanwhile, were understandably the most self-confident about their economy\u2019s ability to pay for the large number of new dependents.<br \/>\n61 per cent of Germans said that their country was financially strong enough to cope with the crisis, but just 28 per cent of the French and 24 per cent of Italians were so confident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Thirds Of Germans Want Borders Closed, Half Say No More \u2018Refugees\u2019 1813 &nbsp; 1 Sean Gallup\/Getty by LIAM DEACON6 Apr 2016480 Two-thirds of Germans want their government to end open borders and almost half insist their country cannot take any more \u2018refugees\u2019. 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