Since
2010, the European Union (EU) had to deal mainly with the debt crisis in some
of its member states, especially in Greece. The European leaders concentrated their energy on keeping Greece in the euro as the German chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out: “If the euro fails, Europe fails”. In order to avoid this
scenario, many aid programs were adopted to give Greece a chance to recover.
In
2015 and probably in 2016, Europe is again under pressure and it looks like
that the new challenge is a larger risk for the future of the EU than the debt
crisis ever was. I am talking about the recent refugee crisis and the difficulty to find common and durable solutions. This crisis is a result mainly
of the Syrian civil war and the outbreak of armed conflicts or deterioration of
on-going ones, among others, in Afghanistan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Ukraine.
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