Refugee: a triple crisis

Clotilde WARIN and Anne MACEY Confrontations Europe It is a migration crisis of historic proportions. Never, since the end of the Second World War, has Europe experienced such a huge influx of refugees – more than one million in 2015. A crisis of solidarity too, since the EU Member States have still not managed to agree and some countries are planning to build walls at their borders (Hungary, Poland and Austria for example). And finally, an existential crisis: the refugee crisis is putting to the test our open border culture and our ability to tackle challenges together. In fact, Europe has been unable to come up with a joint solution, much less a joint response to the conflict in Syria. In March, in a bid to control the influx of refugees, the EU and Turkey signed an agreement that effectively shifts the burden of the crisis from the Member States