On the EU and refugees:

‘"I'll tell you what will happen," says the ambassador of a large EU country. "The refugee issue will be discussed for half an hour at the summit, and after that, the group will spend two days and two nights addressing the only two subjects that are truly important at the moment: Grexit and Brexit - Greece's withdrawal from the euro zone and Great Britain's withdrawal from the EU."’

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‘The discussions were more open on the sidelines of the meetings, at evening receptions on cool Brussels terraces, where people spoke of the "shameless nationalism" of individual members and "poorly concealed racism." Western European representatives were critical of the Eastern Europeans for only wanting to accept "white, Catholic" refugees, while the Eastern Europeans accused their Western colleagues of moral conceit. One of the ambassadors, who attended all of the meetings and some of the receptions, says: "From today's perspective, the agenda was dead an hour after it was born."’

Read the excellent article by By Ullrich Fichtner, Maximilian Popp, Christoph Schult and Alexander Smoltczyk in Der Spiegel here.

Perhaps we should bend the quota system a bit. All white, catholic refugees can go to Poland, homosexual refugees go to Ireland, white, Christian families with children go to Germany, and the blacks, the Muslims? The sea I’m afraid.

A side note: ‘"The idea that somebody allows some refugees in their own country and then distributes them to other member states is mad and unfair," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whom Juncker only half-kiddingly calls the "dictator."’

Mr. Juncker has a sense of humor. Perhaps we should call Mr. Orbán The Little Dictator. Or The Ethical Dictator.