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    <title>topic Re: Germany to get tough? in The Round Table</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4447816#M166247</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;You have highlighted two totally different aspects of aid and charity - I have little doubt that much of the aid to developing countries provided by the West via NGOs is lost through waste and corruption.&amp;nbsp; How big a problem though is by its very nature is difficult to assess.&amp;nbsp; In the example quoted in your first link it claims that $7 million had been misappropriated from the total grant of $474 million made by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS - certainly a lot of money yet still less than 2% - I'd be very surprised if the overall figure for all national aid were as low as this!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The second problem you highlight is the amount of the funds raised by charities that actually ends up being spent on those the charity is set up to help.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The article you linked to unfairly criticises Oxfam in my opinion.&amp;nbsp; They have lumped together all the income the charity receives and compared that to the amount that is finally used to achieve its aims.&amp;nbsp; This is totally unreasonable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If we take an imaginary charity that has a number of income sources.&amp;nbsp; Let's say they receive £1,000 from donations and their collection, advertising and admin costs were £100 then that would mean 90% was spent on their aims, good by any standard.&amp;nbsp; Now suppose they decided to sell goods to raise funds, maybe T-shirts, calendars and cards.&amp;nbsp; They sell £1,000 in goods but production and other costs account for £900 leaving £100 to add to the previous £900 available for the aims of the charity.&amp;nbsp; The causes sponsored by the charity benefit by these activities but the overall figures for the charity look decidedly less attractive - £2,000 raised, £1,000 in costs leaving just £1,000 to be spent or 50% of the total raised.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That is the way the article has treated Oxfam's income.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>upthecreekyetagain</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-10-18T18:25:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442398#M165920</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#0000FF" face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3"&gt;So, enough's enough eh? Germany has decided to root out "economic migrants" from "assylum seekers"?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#0000FF" face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3"&gt;When I mentioned them as two factions on another thread some seemed to think that I was wrong to divide the issue and that all the "refugees" were the same?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#0000FF" face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3"&gt;Now it seems that Germany has decided to remove those who have no prospect of assylum:-&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Germany's governing coalition is arguing over whether to set up "transit zones" on the country's border to quickly weed out migrants who have no realistic chance of winning asylum.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc is pushing the idea. It would entail extending to Germany's land borders a system that already exists at its airports, where migrants who arrive from countries considered safe or without papers can be held while asylum applications are processed quickly.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:05:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cee-dee</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:05:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442408#M165921</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Let them do it ! If they have the resources to deal with such an influx, good on 'em ! At least that'll stop them with interefering &amp;nbsp;the rest of Europe for a while ! &amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>lightblueberet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:16:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442412#M165922</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It's been a hard day.....I meant 'interfering' &amp;amp; the 'with' after interfering ! &amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileyembarrassed" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyembarrassed" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-embarrassed.png" alt="Smiley Embarassed" title="Smiley Embarassed" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:23:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>lightblueberet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:23:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442416#M165923</link>
      <description>&lt;A href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/oct/13/german-far-right-pegida-admires-australias-no-way-immigration-policy-video" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/oct/13/german-far-right-pegida-admires-australias-no-way-immigration-policy-video&lt;/A&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>tommy.irene</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:25:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442421#M165924</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I know, tommy, I know...no comment !&lt;img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>lightblueberet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:35:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442438#M165927</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56580iF12478BBCFFA5525/image-size/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="imagesKH6LMZZD.jpg" title="imagesKH6LMZZD.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Sad state of affairs&lt;STRONG&gt; really&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;img id="womanfrustrated" class="emoticon emoticon-womanfrustrated" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_woman-frustrated.png" alt="Woman Frustrated" title="Woman Frustrated" /&gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;What next ???&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:51:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T13:51:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4442955#M165933</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It won't happen. How are they going to get them home? And where are they going to send them to? Most of them disposed of any paperwork they might have had before getting to Germany. They are there now, and Mother Merkel will try and disperse them as quickly as she can.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>astrologica</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-14T21:34:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443276#M165950</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3891046"&gt;@astrologica&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;It won't happen. How are they going to get them home? And where are they going to send them to? Most of them disposed of any paperwork they might have had before getting to Germany. They are there now, and Mother Merkel will try and disperse them as quickly as she can.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hello astro. Yes, Mother Merkel &lt;img id="manwink" class="emoticon emoticon-manwink" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_man-wink.png" alt="Man Wink" title="Man Wink" /&gt;&lt;img id="womanwink" class="emoticon emoticon-womanwink" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_woman-wink.png" alt="Woman Wink" title="Woman Wink" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;'How are they going to send them home ?'&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Well we send them home in style.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Well...home here in UK.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Please see&amp;nbsp;attachment:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Warning graphic content) &lt;img id="manwink" class="emoticon emoticon-manwink" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_man-wink.png" alt="Man Wink" title="Man Wink" /&gt; &lt;img id="womanwink" class="emoticon emoticon-womanwink" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_woman-wink.png" alt="Woman Wink" title="Woman Wink" /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:50:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443276#M165950</guid>
      <dc:creator>merehazle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T08:50:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443321#M165952</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;One thing I learnt early on in life, is not to let your mouth make promises your body can't keep.........a lesson that has obviously&amp;nbsp;eluded Mrs. Merkel........and many others....may I add.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443321#M165952</guid>
      <dc:creator>evoman3957</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T09:23:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443774#M165982</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It means everyone seeking asylum in Germany must swear allegiance to the Bavarian Sausage and consume Würst at least twice a week&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":thumbs_up:"&gt;👍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:48:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fallen-archie</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T15:48:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Germany to get tough?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4443796#M165985</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I can't think of anything Wurst............I put two little dotty things over the U &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; with a felt tip pen, when when I clicked "post" they didn't come out.&lt;img id="smileyindifferent" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyindifferent" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-indifferent.png" alt="Smiley Indifferent" title="Smiley Indifferent" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>evoman3957</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T16:00:36Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444301#M166002</link>
      <description>They wouldn't cos Wurst doesn't have an umlaut &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:"&gt;😉&lt;/span&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:57:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>******lynda******</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T21:57:51Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444341#M166004</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;He must have meant sausages in plural - Würste&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>suzieseaside</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T22:18:26Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444357#M166005</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well, if he &amp;nbsp;forgot the e that explains it&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>******lynda******</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T22:41:29Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444363#M166007</link>
      <description>Now I could just go a Bockwurst mit Brötchen und Senf</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:51:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>******lynda******</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-15T22:51:24Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444537#M166015</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#0000FF" face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Wieder auf thema&lt;/STRONG&gt; would be better?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:12:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cee-dee</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T08:12:51Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Germany-to-get-tough/m-p/4444589#M166020</link>
      <description>Tut Mir leid</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:54:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>******lynda******</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T08:54:58Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#0000FF" face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3"&gt;Only teasing&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.ebay.co.uk/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:00:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cee-dee</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T09:00:54Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Die beleidigte Leberwurst spielen&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":zzz:"&gt;💤&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fallen-archie</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T14:01:18Z</dc:date>
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      <description>At the risk of being off topic, my first reaction to the last post was quatsch, if aimed at me. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face:"&gt;😀&lt;/span&gt; CD was correct. Being relatively new to these boards, I forget that rules are tighter than on the old boards. I totally appreciate being reminded.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;On topic, on a human level, it would be great to be able to help the millions on the move or wanting to be on the move, but there is a bigger picture with economic, cultural and other ramifications that all countries would be foolish to ignore. A trickle is easier to cope with than a flood and if we were not an island, the practicalities would have been hitting us before now.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;There is no easy solution.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:39:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>******lynda******</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T16:39:07Z</dc:date>
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