"Merkel
hopes that altruism can be infectious and that no European country can
afford to continue standing by as refugees drown in the Mediterranean.
Merkel has transformed the refugees into a gigantic
political drama
and has declared the crisis to be existential for the European Union.
That was a mistake. Europe can't be allowed to break apart just because
agreement can't be reached on the distribution of refugees," writes
Der Spiegel.
European
civilization may in fact be at risk. But it is Orban and his regime,
not the desperate men, women, and children marching along the highway
from Budapest to Vienna, who pose the real danger. The European Union
claims to stand for liberal democracy, respect for human dignity, and
human rights. With his regime’s xenophobic rhetoric and hostile
treatment of refugees, Orban is making
a mockery of these values and encouraging other eastern European governments to follow his example," writes R. Daniel Kelemen in
Foreign Affairs.
"No
one pretends that an enlarged program of resettling refugees will end
the humanitarian crisis created by the civil war in Syria. That will
require a new wave of political and diplomatic engagement at the source
of the conflict. International aid organizations like the I.R.C. see
every day the need to provide more help to the neighboring states of
Syria that are under huge strain, but
refugee resettlement is also a practical way of making a difference for the most vulnerable," writes David Miliband in the
New York Times.
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