Even as Turkey accepts the fact, albeit reluctantly, that 2.7 million refugees from the Middle East will be eligible for citizenship, the rub ahead lies in the clear thumbs down given by Hungary.
That country is prepared to pay a fine of nearly $300 million but exercises refusal to take in a little over 1200 displaced men, women and children from Syria and Yemen.
Come October and Hungary will go for a referendum on giving these people a home and the balance is hugely tilted in favor of a negative vote predicated to the sentiment that Brussels cannot dictate Immigration policy.
Meanwhile, with Brexit now a reality the French are saddled with the thousands of refugees who trekked into Calais but were prevented from entering Britain by the Touquet treaty, a private bi-lateral arrangement between London and Paris that allowed for the UK to use its people to block any movement across the channel from French soil and vice versa.
With the EU canopy gone, will France back off that agreement and ask the British Immigration reps to sail back?
It would be ironic that Britain which rejected the EU refugee policies and refused to okay the entry of 160,000 asylum seekers might in the future have to contend with boat people trying to cross the English channel with no one in the EU stopping them.
It is not off the cards and Theresa May’s first major issue will be immigration policy and how she handles it in a country where racist divisiveness is rearing its head.
At present there are over a million unsettled refugees in Europe who came in during 2015 from the war zones and however much one might gloss over it, they still in internment camps with a whole generation facing a bleak and undecided future. They are from Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria and are now at the mercy of political wrangling that only seems to be pulling in different directions.
The EU is finding it almost impossible to find any common ground on these lost people and what is happening is that they are being converted from human beings to statistics. It wasn’t even a year ago that the global conscience was hit by the photograph of a drowned child on the Greek shore. That seems to have been overshadowed by the crack in the EU facade and the UK’s controversial departure.
By the same token if the UK exercises the Dublin regulation which allows it to send back asylum seekers to the country of first entry into Europe, that could be another worrying dimension to an already big mess.
A solution has to be found before the rigors of the next winter freeze compassion and leave millions out in the cold.
That country is prepared to pay a fine of nearly $300 million but exercises refusal to take in a little over 1200 displaced men, women and children from Syria and Yemen.
Come October and Hungary will go for a referendum on giving these people a home and the balance is hugely tilted in favor of a negative vote predicated to the sentiment that Brussels cannot dictate Immigration policy.
Meanwhile, with Brexit now a reality the French are saddled with the thousands of refugees who trekked into Calais but were prevented from entering Britain by the Touquet treaty, a private bi-lateral arrangement between London and Paris that allowed for the UK to use its people to block any movement across the channel from French soil and vice versa.
With the EU canopy gone, will France back off that agreement and ask the British Immigration reps to sail back?
It would be ironic that Britain which rejected the EU refugee policies and refused to okay the entry of 160,000 asylum seekers might in the future have to contend with boat people trying to cross the English channel with no one in the EU stopping them.
It is not off the cards and Theresa May’s first major issue will be immigration policy and how she handles it in a country where racist divisiveness is rearing its head.
At present there are over a million unsettled refugees in Europe who came in during 2015 from the war zones and however much one might gloss over it, they still in internment camps with a whole generation facing a bleak and undecided future. They are from Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria and are now at the mercy of political wrangling that only seems to be pulling in different directions.
The EU is finding it almost impossible to find any common ground on these lost people and what is happening is that they are being converted from human beings to statistics. It wasn’t even a year ago that the global conscience was hit by the photograph of a drowned child on the Greek shore. That seems to have been overshadowed by the crack in the EU facade and the UK’s controversial departure.
By the same token if the UK exercises the Dublin regulation which allows it to send back asylum seekers to the country of first entry into Europe, that could be another worrying dimension to an already big mess.
A solution has to be found before the rigors of the next winter freeze compassion and leave millions out in the cold.
