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malaise

(269,054 posts) Sun Sep 6, 2015, 05:15 PM Sep 2015

Finland's prime minister pledges to give up his home to accommodate refugees

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-finlands-prime-minister-pledges-to-give-up-his-home-to-accommodate-refugees-10488580.html
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Finland’s prime minister, Juha Sipila, has said he will give up his home to accommodate refugees, part of a growing trend of politicians making personal gestures to help those fleeing war and persecution.

Mr Sipila is the first European leader to make such a concrete gesture, giving a date and specifying a location for when refugees can start moving in.

Speaking to Finland’s national broadcaster YLE, Mr Sipila said his family had a home in Kempele, central Finland, that they rarely used since they moved to the capital, Helsinki.

“We should all take a look in the mirror and ask how we can help,” he said.

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Finland's prime minister pledges to give up his home to accommodate refugees (Original Post) malaise Sep 2015 OP

He's risen to the occasion, as has Merkel. potone Sep 2015 #1

Cameron is a scumbag on steroids malaise Sep 2015 #3

“We should all take a look in the mirror and ask how we can help,” he said. etherealtruth Sep 2015 #2

Sisu! longship Sep 2015 #4

potone

(1,701 posts)

1. He's risen to the occasion, as has Merkel.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2015, 05:25 PM

Sep 2015

Cameron had to be shamed by his fellow citizens to grudgingly agree to take some in. I am disgusted by the responses I have read on many news sites: many people want to deny that the Syrians and others ARE refugees, and insist that they are economic migrants just looking for a more prosperous country. No mention by these people of the fact that Syria and Iraq are engulfed in war, and that nobody entrust their family's lives to an over-crowded dinghy unless they are desperate.