Wave of refugees continues to highlight rifts in the EU
EUROPEAN Union states are behaving increasingly like truculent teens in the face of the greatest wave of refugees across the continent since the end of the last world war, with 710,000 arriving in the first nine months of this year, compared to 282,000 recorded in all of last year.
Their response so far has been to hope that the problem goes away. Thus, today’s summit is likely to be just one more talking shop, where they all complain about their problems, but refuse to agree on a remedy.
