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One must be ‘blind and deaf’ if one does not come to understand that the refugee crisis has tested the limits of Europe’s ability to forge consensus on one of the most divisive issues to confront the union since the fall of Communism.
For the N.Y. Times writers it has set right-wing nationalist and populist politicians against Pan-European humanitarians, who have portrayed the crisis in stark moral terms.
We may not expect too much from today’s meeting of the leaders from across the 28-member bloc were the last few weeks we have not seen much solidarity with each other nor much empathy for those poor people who are trying to safe their soul.
Jean Asselborn, the foreign minister of Luxembourg, said after a meeting of home affairs and interior ministers that even countries that voted against the distribution of asylum seekers — the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia — must comply.
“I have no doubt they will implement these decisions fully,”
he said.
the N.Y.Times has good reason to say
The European Union’s reputation, and its faith in Brussels, have suffered in the past few months, with sharp and vocal divisions among member states and continuing doubts about Greek economic sustainability.
For Stefano Stefanini, a former senior Italian ambassador now based in Brussels, the migrant crisis
“risks bursting the E.U. at its weak seams”
“It’s more dangerous than the Greek drama and more serious than the euro, because it challenges fundamental European accomplishments and beliefs.”
With Tuesday’s vote, he said,
“the cleavages only get deeper.”
We as Europeans should look in our own bosom and consider what we really want to do and in what we do want to belief.
The pessimistic representation by the American writers is very logical when you see how the freedom of human being is being limited and how freedom of movement within the borderless, passport-free zone known as the Schengen area is getting into the dangerzone of being in order to be lifted.
As with the euro, borderless travel was pushed ahead by the European Union as an essentially political idea, without Brussels having created the rules and institutions capable of coherently maintaining and enforcing it.
And as with the euro, the chaos over the refugees has raised questions about not only how the European Union functions but what it stands for, not least its aspirations to balance justice and security.
When European Union leaders say that
“we as Europeans are currently not able to manage our common external borders”
than this community has a very serious problem.
A Europe
“defined by a beggar-my-neighbor race to the bottom was precisely what the E.U. was created to prevent,”
said David Miliband, a former British foreign minister and now director of the International Rescue Committee, a nongovernmental agency that helps refugees.
“If the E.U. is incompetent, compassion is not enough.”
Please let us take European Parliament president Martin Schulz his words at heart and be careful not to take the worn road-bent with the knowledge that a
“deeper split of the union is a risk we cannot exclude”.
Read more about it:Plan on Migrants Strains the Limits of Europe’s Unity

Migrants rested and registered at a camp in Opatovac, Croatia, on Tuesday. Credit Marko Djurica/Reuters
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Preceding:
Are people willing to take the responsibility for others
If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for
State of Europe 2015 – Addressing Europe’s crises
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- Syrian girl: 8 Reasons Why The NWO Hates Syria! Global Domination!”
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- How Is Immigration Viewed In The EU?
- European ministers agree to relocate 120,000 refugees, but political divide persists
- Toronto students pitch in to help Syrian refugees
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- Faith and Humanity
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- Mere Fidelity: What to do with Refugees?
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- The Waiting
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- Refugee Crisis: The Road To Germany (Part 1)
- Letter to a Non-Christian Nation
- Refugee Crisis Terrorists & Militia Posing As Refugees
- Christians say Syrian refugee crisis could affect how they vote in federal election
- The Migrant Crisis: What Can I do?
- BBC Presenter Disregards & Slanders Callers – Migrant Crisis
- Rolling out the Welcome Wagon to the Enemy…
- A view from Austria. Refuge
- Border Stories … the questions in a crisis
- Could Europe’s Refugee Influx Trigger a Shift Towards Leaner Urban Policies?
- True Compassion
- See Photos from the Chaos of Europe’s New Refugee Trail
- Refugees to Come to the United States
- McDonald’s supports struggling U.N. effort to feed Syrian refugees
- Is xenophobia the new antisemitism?
- My two cents on the refugee crisis
- Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
- Donating to Refugees in Traiskirchen
- Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017
- Do China’s ghost cities offer a solution to Europe’s migrant crisis?
- The Refugee Crisis🚨
- Dear Aylan: A Poem on the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis
- Justin Trudeau says he would consider airlifting refugees from Syria
- Mixed Feelings | Week 3
- Refugees are welcome here!
- The History Girls: Orderly and Humane – Celia Rees
- The Evening Post: Understanding The Refugee Crisis In Europe, Syria, And Around The World
- For One Minnesota Man, Crisis In Syria Hits Close To Home
- Train Cancellations
- Israeli leaders delight in Europe’s cruelty toward refugees
- Refugees At The Border- A Blessing Or Burden?
- Twitter Feed Lures Hordes to Europe
- The World Wide Refugee and Migrant Crisis and a possible solution for it
- Church of Ireland Parishes in Cork, Cloyne and Ross begin to Mobilise in Response to Refugee Crisis
- Poster: Please Help The Refugees
- Reality Check: Are refugees an economic burden?
- Europe and the joke of reverse colonialism
- Other three-year olds
- Westmount synagogue sponsors Syrian refugee family
- To the Families in Boats Tonight
- Report from a Besieged World: Refugee Crisis Devolving into Chaos
- Egyptian billionaire says he is deciding between 2 Greek islands to buy for refugees
- TIFF 2015: Stars discuss migrant crisis as films reflect refugee issues
- Why Russia backs Assad: a view from Russia’s anti-imperialist left
- See the True Scale of Europe’s Refugee Crisis in One Photo
- Hungary Oppressed Press Freedom over the Border Crackdown on Refugees
- Loss of humanity
- The Vatican Takes in Family of Syrian Refugees
- If All Cultures Are Equal, Why Are Millions Of Refugees Fleeing The Thoroughly Islamic Middle East?
- Can We Pay The Price To Free Humanity?
- What do you get if you cross Christianity with…? Answer the response of many to the present refugee crisis!
- When disruption becomes tangible – stories from a train station. Europe September 2015.
- More Syrian asylum-seekers getting OK to stay in Canada
- The refugee exodus into Europe: a preventable crisis and the inevitable demographic
- How is the migration crisis affecting you? A view from Britain
- Border stories … thoughts on refugees
- Europe’s refugees just follow the ancient routes for the peopling of Europe in the Neolithic revolution
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