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Why the flow of migrants into Europe has accelerated in 2015


Europe is confronted since the beginning of year 2015 with the extremely serious crisis regarding the exponential rise of the number of refugees within its borders. The wars in Syria and in Libya are at the origin of this increase for the majority of these refugees. However, world’s major powers have to share responsibility given the political and militaty impasse in the conflict zones from where they arrive.

This year as it has been reported that there was a 60 % increase of additional migrant arrivals in Europe. They are already more than 351 000 people who have taken the risk of crossing the Mediterranean Sea this year, for only 219 000 in 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (OMI). Many drowned in the sea, as small Aylan, a Syrian child whose photo on a Turkish beach has shocked so much the planet this week, or during the appalling conditions of clandestine transport such as the example of 71 people found suffocated into a truck originated from Hungary. Continue reading Why the flow of migrants into Europe has accelerated in 2015

Drame en Méditerranée: réunion d’urgence prévue, crédibilité de l’UE en jeu//An unimaginable drama in the Mediterranean Sea 700 people dead while crossing to Europe: EU plans an emergency meeting


The European Union announces by the voice of her person in charge of the diplomacy, the Italian Federica Mogherini, an emergency meeting after a new migration drama in the Mediterranean Sea which would have made up to 700 deaths. A trawler transporting hundreds of migrants wrecked after capsizing.

Only 28-30 people were saved.

The European Union found itself ” profoundly affected“. ” Human lives are at stake, and the European Union in general is under a moral obligation to act in a humanitarian way “, reacted the Commission, which prepares a new strategy on the immigration which must be adopted by the UE states by the middle of May. Continue reading Drame en Méditerranée: réunion d’urgence prévue, crédibilité de l’UE en jeu//An unimaginable drama in the Mediterranean Sea 700 people dead while crossing to Europe: EU plans an emergency meeting