2015 European refugee crisis
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| Date | July 2015 - Present |
|---|---|
| Type | migration |
| Interest of | European Stability Initiative |
| Description | Crisis in Europe over the escalating numbers of refugees from Middle-Eastern and North African countries. |
The 2015 European refugee crisis[1][2][3][4] or European migrant crisis[5][6][7][8][9] or arose through the rising number of refugees and migrants[10] coming to the European Union, across the Mediterranean Sea or Southeast Europe, and applying for asylum.
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stef Blok | “I don't think you'll ever be able to centrally organize the EU countries accepting refugees in equal amounts. Eastern-Europeans would never agree to that. Even if we would force them, hands on their back and they'd say "yes", even then, walk a week through Warsaw or Prague. There are no colored people there. They would be gone within a week. They would be literally beaten up. They don't have a life there.” | Stef Blok | 2018 |
| Vladimir Putin | “Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.
The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent. Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world. The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons. It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour. They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research. It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.” | Vladimir Putin | 2022 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Europe in free fall | article | 28 August 2015 | 'The Saker' | An analysis of the European geo-political predicament illuminated by its burgeoning refugee crisis |
| Document:Refugee crisis-Brought to you by Western Imperialism | article | 20 September 2015 | André Vltchek | Home truths for European countries about their refugee crisis |
An official example
| Name |
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| BBC coverage of the Calais Jungle |
References
- ↑ "Europe's African Refugee Crisis: Is the Boat Really Full?". Der Spiegel. 15 April 2014.
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/55e9793b6.html
- ↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/european-refugee-crisis-2015-why-so-many-people-are-fleeing-middle-east-north-africa-2081454
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-08/what-you-need-to-know-about-europe-s-refugee-crisis-q-a }
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32395181
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34061097}}
- ↑ http://www.ft.com/intl/migration
- ↑ http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2015/09/refugees-or-migrants-whats-in-a-word/
- ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/04/europe/migrant-crisis-country-by-country/
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/55df0e556.html "The majority of people arriving this year in Italy and Greece especially have been from countries mired in war or which otherwise are considered to be 'refugee-producing' and for whom international protection is needed. However, a smaller proportion is from elsewhere, and for many of these individuals, the term 'migrant' would be correct."
