Europe couldn’t possibly take all of the refugees

Suzanne Harrington (Irish Examiner, Artslife, October 12) says that Europe can absorb “every last refugee”.

Europe couldn’t possibly take all of the refugees

The UN says there are about 60 million refugees in the world, almost all of them in the Asian and African continents.

If Europe was to absorb them all, its economy and social services would completely collapse, not to mention that its culture and identity would disappear.

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