Europe faces a growing humanitarian crisis every bit increasing numbers of refugees instruct inward the continent subsequently fleeing the troubles inward Syria. In Republic of Hungary an estimated 3,000 people are camping ground exterior Budapest's primary station desperate to go on to Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany together with Austria.
El Diario has mapped the issue of asylum applications received past times each European province inward 2015 together with the pct of applications accepted past times each country. The size of the reddish dots on the Refugee Distribution map represents the issue of asylum applications received past times each province together with a choropleth layer shows the pct of asylum applications accepted.
One of the arguments beingness used past times around of Europe's political leaders for non accepting to a greater extent than asylum applications is that this volition entirely encourage to a greater extent than refugees to caput to their countries. This map seems to advise that at that topographic point is no potent correlation betwixt a high credence charge per unit of measurement of refugees past times a province together with the issue of refugees seeking asylum inward that country.
If the willingness to bring asylum seekers affected the issue of refugees to together with therefore apply for asylum together with therefore the nighttime dark-green colored countries on the map should possess got the largest reddish dots. This clearly isn't the case. For example, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany entirely agreed 42% of asylum applications inward 2014 together with notwithstanding it is past times far the well-nigh pop goal for asylum seekers.
In fact the electrical current crisis inward Republic of Hungary is because the province is correct inward the pump of 1 of the well-nigh pop migration routes to Germany. The BBC has published a static map showing the migrant road from Hellenic Republic together with Turkey to Germany. With Republic of Hungary beingness a pop gateway to the passport-free Schengen zone inward the European Union.
The BBC says that Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is expecting 800,000 asylum applications this year. Many of those refugees volition possess got successfully followed this migrant road through Hungary. Hungary's reply to this growing refugee crisis has been to build a 110 mile razor wire fence.
This combat is simply 1 of many fences instantly beingness built or planned inward Europe. The Washington Post, inward an article entitled Fortressing Europe, has mapped around of these structure projects designed to block around of the well-nigh pop migrant routes into Europe.
These fences include the combat beingness built past times Republic of Hungary along its edge amongst Serbia, a 100 mile combat beingness constructed past times Republic of Bulgaria along its edge amongst Turkey together with Greece's ain combat along its Turkish border.
