Europe-Middle East-Africa Refugee Crisis General Thread

[swl]

So, do you think that crisis is over or is it only temporary relief ? The number of new arrivals has been quite low in the last months,  which gave enough time to Greece and others to evacuate the makeshift camps.

[ingemann]

So, do you think that crisis is over or is it only temporary relief ? The number of new arrivals has been quite low in the last months,  which gave enough time to Greece and others to evacuate the makeshift camps.

I doubt it will turns as ugly again, but no it's not over, we need to reach a permanent European agreement in how we deal with refugees, whether that's quotas, a ban on asylum to people who enter EU illegal or a mix of the two doesn't matter, but we need a European solution.

[Tender Branson]

Not a terrorist, but similarly disturbing:

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Also:

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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/533520/Syrian-migrant-arrest-masturbating-watching-children-playground-sex-attack-crime-Austria

Can someone please immediately deport these walking testosterone bombs ? Thx.

The last thing we need is those people crowding our prisons and/or receiving generous state welfare.

[Hnv1]

K... And in a more old fashioned atlas discussion, does anyone has figures of number of immigrants in the EU this year compared to similar time last year?

[Tender Branson]

K... And in a more old fashioned atlas discussion, does anyone has figures of number of immigrants in the EU this year compared to similar time last year?

Don't know about the EU, but Austria already has numbers for the first half of 2016:

About 26.000 asylum requests (similar to the 28.000 in the first half of 2015).

http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Asylwesen/statistik/start.aspx

[Hnv1]

K... And in a more old fashioned atlas discussion, does anyone has figures of number of immigrants in the EU this year compared to similar time last year?

Don't know about the EU, but Austria already has numbers for the first half of 2016:

About 26.000 asylum requests (similar to the 28.000 in the first half of 2015).

http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Asylwesen/statistik/start.aspx

A. Austria alone is too small of sample to learn of general trend
B. do you have a segmentation of place of origin for those 28K?