That exact same story has a beard of Jasper Beardly like propotions in Munich. So far there has been success also due to a protection worthy biotope on the planned grounds.
I believe they have put pretty much any plans on hold as of this year.
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I flew quite a bit from MUC, both as start/destination and (lately) as a stop-over. Kinda like that it isnât so big and busy. Might as well stay that way 
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Though it probably says a lot about a city if the one likeable bit is itâs airport 
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It could really have a more likeable name, thoughâŚ
Come on. Itâs named after the finest leader Bavaria has seen since Ludwig II 
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Oh. In Finnish itâs Soul or SĹul. The âeâ is not pronounced 
I remember, in 1988, newspapers were uncertain on how to write it. Seul, Seoul, and rarely Soul. I remember once my schoolmates took fun of me because I wrote âSeoulâ, maybe they thought it was a bookworm thing.
From the Characters & Their Names - #86 by yrface thread:
Yes. Again all governements in Europe donât want to let immigrants come. Macron says to Salvini he is wrong, but when it comes to let people go in France, he allowed french policemen to go even beyond the french border in Italy to block people. Spanish government has african borders guarded with machine-guns (while Ada Colau, major of Barcelona, and Joan Ribò, major of Valencia, accepted the people on Aquarius ship which eventually landed on national soil in the second city).
Anyway, this shows how many difficulties Europe has to handle a common immigration policy. It is true, as Macron says, that countries like France have a population of resident immigrants higher than in Italy. But itâs also true that in the last years, mainly 2013-2016, Italy is the country that accepted the most, simply because our harbours were always open, unlike those of the other coastal mediterranean countries. Furthermore, we do not have a colonial history, unlike France and other european countries, apart from the two episodes of the early twentieth century, very brief and different from colonial behaviour of the earlier centuries.
A serious politics about immigration should first decide that immigration is a common issue. People move across Europe as they did in past decades, and a share for every country should be decided. Then the countries like Hungary (the group of Orban and co.) that donât want to accept immigrants, should not receive european funds (sometimes in those cases they receive more money as funds than they pay as taxes, and some of them even have their own currency - they take only what they want from Europe! -)
Then we should really - really! - care for the conditions of the countries where they come from, when they are war refugees, but also economic immigrants. Why no one ever say âHey! Letâs stop selling war weapons to them!â; only then I could trust the very same man saying âLetâs help them in their countryâ which is, if taken outside of rethoric, a good intention.
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Roman empire?
Ok, then leave all the command in the hands of Rome and weâll handle the thing. Maybe take your time, five years from now should be enoughâŚ
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Since you change governments at about the same pace as roman emperors (minus the poisoningâŚI guess?) today I´m not sure anyone´s getting anything stable out of this. 
Yeah, and thatâs sad, mostly for the people who come here as immigrants. A common policy about immigration would be good for all. Iâm really sad about people dying. Death by water is almost as horrible as in war.
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And people being put on trial who save them is awful as well.
I´m thinking of that Sea Captain as a Star Trek commander who now goes to court for violating the prime directive.
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Yes. Among other things Germany (the sea captain and the NGO are german) is a country which, under the previous Merkelâs governments, didnât back out its commitment to accept immigrants.
But the problem is that now thereâs no room for those NGOs if now european countries donât accept people. Where are ships supposed to bring people? Again, no official response from EU, but every single country has one: not in my home.
The problem is that the country is now split between right wing parties who pander to artificially constructed fears of those imigrants and Merkels party is split between the left and right wing parts that would almost have ended the current goverment over single headed decisions our bavarian fraction does and later blames the other side for splitting the country. 
It could work if we hadn´t so many far right wing goverments in other european countries already. Germany bowing down now would mean nothing but more deaths at sea.
Yes, german situation with Seehoferâs requests is another important piece of this chess game widely covered by press these days.
I could even think that now itâs a time to reduce immigration pressure over Europe, to try help people in their countries, and to examinate and distinguish between economic immigrants and war refugees. But this is a plan that requires a great vision, itâs a european Marshall plan for Africa and Syria, it requires that anyway every country takes its commitment to accept anyway a residual share of people coming here.
But I donât see anything of that now. I just see the governments of every european country trying to pass the buck to others.
Yeah because most of the countries with right wing governments would prefer not to take ANY refugees. The solution Merkel is trying to push (as opposed to Seehofer, who prefers to go on his own) is talking to all the other countries and find a solution where the people are spread out more evenly than they are now, as you suggest. Unfortunatly I don´t see that happening either in the current situation. Not when everybody just put the fingers in their ears.
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A more equal distribution of wealth around the globe would definitely go a long way, but I donât think that this is possible in the current economic environment. Thereâs simply too much emphasis on individual growth and too little focus on the greater good. As long as making money on the cost of everyone else is seen as the way things are supposed to work, this is not going to change.
In general, the whole political debate about immigration basically leaves me speechless. The inhumanity on display is something that should get politicians thrown out of office, no questions asked.
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Three people responsible for Brexit negotiations have resigned in the past 24 hours. What the beeeeeeeep?! 
In my view, the government has been doing a rubbish job at negotiating a deal recently. Itâs ridiculous. So ridiculous that the EU refers to our negotiating attempts as âcakeâ. Businesses have already started relocating jobs from the UK, because the prospect of a âno-deal Brexitâ has become so likely.
And now, the key decision-makers for the outcome of Brexit are removing themselves from the process, instead of taking responsibility for all this and making sure we get the best possible outcome!
The future of Britain hangs in the balance. The result of negotiations will, for instance, decide whether we pay ÂŁ245 more in bills per year, or ÂŁ1,961. Iâm scared. 
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I´d laugh and say ânow they get what they voted forâ because this was pretty much obvious anybody who observed this from the beginning. But all the sensible âremainâ voters get punished, too! 
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Yeah, and Iâm one of them 
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