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The migrant crisis on Greece’s Islands
Camino Mortera-Martinez and Rem Korteweg of the CER say that a deep divide between Northern and Southern EU states has resulted. “Northern member states want an asylum policy that keeps migrants in the South but treats them humanely,” they wrote recently, “while Southern member-states want the North to share the burden by accepting more migrants. The Mediterranean refugee crisis shows that this system is unsustainable.”