... and finger-printing of refugees in Italy and Greece by November. According to the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the number of refugees may not be a problem for the EU, which has the capacity and experience to deal with the current migration crisis. Moreover, he added that the Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon and Jordan are embracing millions of refugees. Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said that last EU summit marked a major step forward in bringing the bloc towards Italy’s ...
As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14
th
, British Prime Minister David Cameron
visited a camp
run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just a stone’s throw away from the Syrian border.
He subsequently announced
Britain would offer more support to Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan bearing the brunt of...
The migration crisis is clearly putting the ultra-right National Front in the lead
The powerful wave of migration from the Middle East and North Africa that is sweeping the Old World is making a serious impact on the measured pace of political life in the ...