With a million fresh refugees expected in Europe this year,Greece faces a diplomatic onslaught and an existential crisisThe refugee myth has hardly begun. There will be, on conservative estimates, and another million arriving via Turkey this year – and maybe more. The distribution quotas proposed by Germany,and resisted by many states in eastern Europe, are already a fiction and will fade into insignificance as the next wave comes.
Germany itself will face critical choices: if you’re suddenly running a budget deficit to meet the needs of asylum seekers, or how finish you justify not spending on the infrastructure that’s supposed to serve German citizens,which has crumbled through underinvestment in the Angela Merkel era?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com