Greece, Europe and the refugee crisis

There is an irony to the phrase "European refugee crisis." If you are in Africa, the Middle East or South Asia, you know that the refugee crisis is felt most acutely in countries neighboring those in conflict. Now is the time for Europeans to address the seriousness of the issues we face. Greece is a good place to start, since it has been in the eye of the storm.

Jordan currently hosts 655,000 refugees; Lebanon, 1 million; Turkey over 3 million. Kenya has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees for decades. Uganda now hosts 1 million South Sudanese refugees. Bangladesh, already poor and bearing the brunt of climate change, will soon host 1 million Rohingya refugees. In fact, the majority of the world's refugees are hosted in some of the world's poorest countries.

Here in Europe, more than two years since the West's collective conscience was first moved by images...

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