The feverish rancor and self-loathing among Europeans over the migrant crisis should alert us to a potential catastrophe that would eclipse even the Syrian boat people’s suffering: the danger of instability within Europe itself.
Under constant pressure from recurrent crises — the great recession, Ukraine, Greece, Islamist terror — the EU’s fabric is showing signs of acute stress. And now the picture of young Aylan Kurdi, dead on a beach, has set off a firestorm of acrimony across and within European national borders, with ugly accusations of racism and fascism, avowals of shame at being European, and name-calling between countries.
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Source: European Voice
