TOUGH NUT: STILL IN THE NEWS
EU Fails To Solve Another Crisis
EU leaders are holding urgent talks in the face of a massive increase in the number of refugees trying to reach the EU. Conflicts in Middle-East and North Africa have driven a 150% increase in migration, mostly through Greece and Italy with criminal trafficking gangs proliferating. EU leaders, in their characteristically constructive fashion, have been bickering with each other. Hungary have said they won’t let any refugees into the country and are prepared to build a ‘massive wall’ around the country. Italy has described France’s refusal of entry to migrants from Italy as a “punch in the face” and Greece even used the situation as a political tool (earlier this year the defense Minister said he would “unleash a wave of jihadists” across Europe if the EU did not ease up on negotiations about Greek debt). A human tragedy made worse. This adds to the list of things EU leaders can’t agree on (the Greek crisis, integration, immigration, tax, monetary policy, democracy, Russia, diplomacy and…well…everything else). |
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