Flowers and balloons doecrate a fence as a welcome sign at the temporary accommodation centre for refugees in Luechow, Germany. © Philipp Schulze/dpa
On Wednesday this week, Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the EU Commission, is scheduled to unveil the EU’s latest proposals to address the migration crisis. Previous initiatives have not been up to the task, and as recent developments have shown, the urgency and scale of the challenge are rising all the time. Juncker’s task is to “Europeanise” a problem for which national, rather than European, institutions bear responsibility, and to which some countries, especially in Eastern Europe, have …read more
Source: Prospect
