The despair of asylum seekers arriving to the shores Of Southern Europe is real, and the arrivals need our help, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä = Centre = stated in Jyväskyla on Wednesday. Sipilä revealed that the ministerial group of the Centre Party discussed the implications of the Mediterranean migrant crisis for Finland on several occasions. The number of asylum seekers arriving in Finland is growing rapidly, and we must be prepared. This warrants a broad social and value debate he stated. Finns, Sipilä emphasised, must realise that the arrivals are not economic refugees but are truly fleeing war and unrest. His comments were echoed By Matti Vanhanen, the chairperson of the Centre Parliamentary Group The emergency has reached New proportions. For Germany, it's a question of roughly 600,000—700,000 asylum seekers per year. You Don't have to be a fortune teller to say that also the Numbers in Finland will rise to a level we're not used to.
We have to adopt a way of thinking that we must help people fleeing war in a new crisis such as this he said,
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