BRUSSELS—Turkey, with a population of 75 million, is hosting around 2 million refugees from the ongoing wars in Syrian and Iraq. Lebanon, with less than 5 million citizens, is hosting over 1 million. Jordan, population 6.4 million, now hosts close to 1 million. These well-known figures show how the series of disputes among European decision-makers over relocating 120,000 refugees is ludicrously incommensurate with the problem. Yet it might well constitute another step toward the unravelling of the European Union.
The signatories of the Schengen Agreement, which created a borderless area across much of Europe, can certainly reinstate national borders in exceptional …read more
Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Unravelling of the Union
