It often takes tragedies for Europeans to care about migrants.
In September 2015, the tragic death of little Aylan had pushed Angela Merkel to open the borders of Germany to 900,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq, causing a migratory shock felt throughout Europe.
Five years later, the fire in the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos once again draws attention to the dysfunctions of the Dublin system, which is supposed to distribute the burden of refugees among members of the EU.
“No more Moria!”
Insists the Swedish Ylva Johansson, the Union's Home Affairs Commissioner, who is due to present her solution to the problem on Wednesday.
Will the mountain once again give birth to a mouse?
Noting the impossibility of imposing quotas of migrants on countries that do not want them, the Commission of Ursula von der Leyen (VDL) is preparing to replace the “forced relocation” of refugees with “compulsory solidarity”, But
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