Wednesday, 24 February 2016

The refugee crisis. By Jean GENES

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“The migrants coming from Syria look more like fighters than refugees… This resembles an army!” This sentence, pronounced by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on October the 2nd 2015, is indicative of the malaise over the migrant situation all over the EU. Many people in other member states share his thoughts and the east European country’s barbed wire fence has met wide-spread approval throughout the continent; many frontiers have now been closed, such as the one between Austria and Slovenia.

European cooperation cannot really be deemed a success and it will now, without doubt, be even harder to find a way to prevent the euro-sceptics from accelerating the collapse of the EU...

According to the newspaper “Le Monde”, the country that has received the most refugees, not only Syrians, but also Iraqis and Eritreans, is Germany, with a million people asking to stay in the country under the Geneva Convention in 2015, which means a 500% growth over  a year.

More than urgent, the situation seems uncontrollable for the authorities, as the repartition plan has not been accepted and the “hotspots” set up in Greece to control the migrants’ flow are inefficient.

As Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia have refused to accept the quotas imposed by the EU, new solutions have to be found... The newspaper “20 minutes” proposed to send back in their respective countries, mostly to Africa, all the migrants who arrived for economic reasons. I personally disagree with this proposition, as I think this will only take too much time, a time that could be better used to build the necessary infrastructures for all these war refugees fleeing from their countries.

Jean GENES wants to be a journalist.

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