UN: Almost 220, 000 migrants, a record, reached Europe by sea in October
218, 394 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by sea in October, up from 172, 843 in September, Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, said on Monday. “That More...
Former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer: Europe’s Reality Check
Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy More...
GEORGE SOROS: Rebuilding the Asylum System
The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political More...
How Do Americans Feel About Taking In Refugees?
Americans overwhelmingly favor taking in refugees, according to a recent YouGov poll. 52 percent of respondents said that the United States should provide refuge to people fleeing war and oppression More...
Daniel Gros, Director of Center for European Policy Studies: Europe Under Siege?
Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders. Whether they are being exposed to refugees firsthand, or just seeing images of them splashed More...
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Price of European Indifference
Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn. It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a “migrant, ” which obscures the difference, central to the law, between More...
Peter Sutherland: The Migration Opportunity
In the last year, more than 4, 000 men, women, and children have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe. Their tragic deaths have done nothing to slow the More...