I tell Europe if you don't want refugees, then you should help us get rid of this regime. ~Muhammed Faris
TheEuropean migrant crisis, also known as therefugee crisis, is a period beginning in 2015 characterized by rising numbers of people arriving in theEuropean Union from across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe.See also:Refugees
I tell Europe if you don't want refugees, then you should help us get rid of this regime [ofBashar al-Assad]... I am very sorry about theRussian interference [in Syria], which has stood on the side of dictator Bashar Assad, and has begun to kill theSyrian people withtheir planes.
In 2015Merkel inGermany made aradical gesture. After the failure of an EU plan to absorb refugees from theSyrian civil war flowing intoGreece, she decided to offer them sanctuary in Germany. Over a million accepted. The reaction was fierce. An unashamedlyright-wing group,Alternative for Germany, emerged in the 2018 German elections as the third largestparty, strongest in the formerEast German provinces. Merkel, so long the queen ofEurope, was almost toppled. A charismaticFrenchpresident,Emmanuel Macron, elected in 2017, swiftly moved into lead position in the EU and promptly initiated yet another attempt to concentrate and reform theeurozone. Germany disagreed. Europe looked ever more divided and confused.
Simon Jenkins,A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin (2018)
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