My Italian colleague at work speaks French, but was complaining German was hard. She's learning because her partner is Swiss and speaks German (as well as Italian, French, Spanish and English). (View Post)

So, research into this has come up with a few answers: (1) we speak English and those seeking refuge are often more likely to speak English than French or German (2) existing communities - if there i… (View Post)

I think it's important to remember that France and Germany take more asylum seekers than us. It's not as if France is full of asylum seekers trying to get smuggled into the UK. The majority… (View Post)

The EEC/EU has fostered closer commercial and cultural links between countries, and that contributes to peace too. (It ain't nuclear weapons that have stopped, say, German/Danish border disputes… (View Post)

Earlier, @BartholomewRoberts raised the suggestion that the number of asylum seekers per area was an important metric, and on that metric, we take more people than France, although France takes more … (View Post)