It’s not all about us all the time

If tens of dead and hundreds of missing people off the Greek coast do not unite us even briefly, if we cannot hold a serious discussion on all the dimensions of mass migration, then we are in danger of losing all hope of agreement among ourselves.

The state responded to the shipwreck, through all those who took part in the search and rescue operations, in the treatment of the survivors. It declared three days of national mourning. But the protagonists of public debate - the parties, news media and trolls - tried to turn the tragedy into yet another domestic dispute, where one side is accused of "killing migrants" and the other of wanting Greece to be totally unprotected.

When will we understand that not everything is about us? The world is experiencing the greatest crisis of displaced people since the end of World War II.

The refugee, the person who is hungry,...