The case for a common European refugee policy

In recent years, wars and conflict in the Middle East and sub-Saharan African countries have led an unprecedented number of refugees to come to Europe. In 2015, the number of first- time asylum applicants exceeded 1.2 million, compared to about half a million the previous year. By the second half of 2016, the crisis seemed to have abated, thanks to a great extent to a European agreement signed in March 2016 with Turkey that allowed Greece to return all new irregular migrants to Turkey in exchange for money and easier immigration to Europe for T

Source: bruegel.org