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Bullet points from my sources:

BBC NEWS:
-More than 600 thousand people managed to arrive by sea.
-Germany is far beyond the most popular destinations for them
- Hungary is the second one when it comes to having asylum
applicants.
-Most of the refugees/migrants come from Syria, Afghanistan, even
Kosovo.
- They arrive by boats and overland.
-From huge number of people applying for an asylum only small
number of people are being given one so far.
-Mediterranean route has mostly being used for reaching Europe.
- More than three thousand people died in Mediterranean in 2015.
-Overcrowding is one of the biggest reasons for accidents taking
place.
THE SKIM BLOG:
- Refugees are forced to leave their home while migrants are leaving their country just
seeking for better life.
- Main reasons for this crisis: Mideast& Africa a re not perfect place for living recently, due
to week economy, Syrian war, ISIS.
- People are paying smugglers huge amounts to get to Europe
- EU is trying to figure out new strategies and how to distribute refugees properly.
- Germany is taking in the biggest number of refugees. They are expecting the figures to
grow to 500,000.

DAILY MAIL
- British government will take 20, 000 refugees, Church suggests they should take in more.
- Crisis have been inflamed by Germanys decision to open the borders for everyone.
- Many of the people we see on our television screens walking down railway lines are fit
young men coming to Europe to look for work. 1
David Cameron claims that Europe should only take in very vulnerable people and prevent
migrants who are just seeking for a job.

Phillip Hammond, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3281083/Many-refugees-walkingEuropefit-young-men-looking-work-says-Philip-Hammond.html, 20 October 2015

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- If we become part of the mechanism of distributing people around the European Union,
we are encouraging people to make the dangerous journey.2
- Mary Creagh criticised British government for ignoring this horrible event, saying that:
- Some of those fit young men that he talks about are actually fleeing the conscription of
Assads regime because they dont want to kill their own people.3

BRUGEL.ORG
Migration crisis will not cause neither gain or loss for Europes budget.
Germany will spend around 12 000 euros per refuge during one year.
Nevertheless, according to the study, Mark Schieritz claims that will not affect their
economy in negative way since it is believed that their budget surplus will rise from
0.3 GDP to 0.6 GDP. Germans welfare state will also depend on situation with all
refuges in Germany and their access to employment system. 4
- Refuges coming will have a minimum or no effects on wages and employment of
established workers.
- From the study that is done in 2015, Lidia Farre is claiming that most of the migrants
that arrive to Europe will find a job in the service sector (taking care of children and
old people, cleaning). Increase in this supply sector will at the same time allow
qualified native woman to switch their unpaid house work for paid working hours and
progress in their career. 5
- Refuges will not make a big impact on health care system.
Using micro data from the UK research, Guintella Nicodemo examines that area
with higher concentration of refugees will even reduce waiting lines for patients.
- Immigration will create higher demand for goods and services, affect on demography and
ageing. 6
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CHATHAM HOUSE- The royal institute of International Affairs

- Approximately 11 people have drowned everyday trying to cross Mediterranean.
- Arabic rich countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc.) are among the biggest donors to the
refugees, but they are not that generous when it comes to taking them into their countries.
- They are afraid that immigrants would become most of the population there.
- Refuges started crowding Europe, because Lebanon, Jordan and other host countries close
to Syria are running out of capacity to accommodate them.

BUSINESS INSIDER
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David Cameron, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3281083/Many-refugees-walking-

Europefit-young-men-looking-work-says-Philip-Hammond.html, 20 October 2015

Mary Creagh, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3281083/Many-refugees-walking-Europe-fit-young-men-lookingwork-says-Philip-Hammond.html, 20 October 2015

4Mark Schieritz, OECDs International Migration Outlook, http://bruegel.org/2015/10/how-will-refugees-affect-europeaneconomies/, 19 October 2015
5 Lidia Farre, Foged and Perri, 2015.

Muenz, Straubhaar,F. Vadean and N. Vadean, Study on the effects of European immigration, 2015.

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UK
-Many Countries Politicians are concerned how will this crisis influence their countrys
budged.
- So most of them asked for help from EU budget.
- Finance Minister of Finland stated that this crisis is a historical challenge for the EU.
- Irish Minister assumed the cost they would have to face will be around 48 million euros.
FINANCIAL TIMES
- Number of crisis that Europe has deal with in this period are huge (Eurozone crisis,
struggle with Russia, UK referendum)
- All this adds up and influence dealing with refugee crisis.
- EU must create a distinction between refugees and migrants because EU countries
only have legal obligations towards refugees, but not migrants.
- Number of accepted asylum seekers is only 0.1 per cent of EU population.
- Helping refugees to settle will be an expensive and hard task.
- Refreshed economy of Europe is needed.
EUROPEAN COMMISION -Press release database
- Commission announced the possible donations of up to 1 billion euros for Turkey and
additional 17 million Euros for Serbia and Macedonia to help them tackle problems of
refugees.
- Provides figures and numbers from first hand, from their own research.
- The European Commission has been consistently and continuously working for a
coordinated European response on the refugees and migration front. We have achieved a
great deal in a short space of time. And we will continue to work flat-out to bring common,
European solutions."7
THE GUARDIAN
- Turkey is not a country for refugees to stay in for a long time.
- Syrians do not have legal right to work there, so it is a not place to settle.
- Every individual refuge spend around 2000 euros to get to their hope place
-Germany has the greatest proportion of positive decisions for Asylium.

Germany.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
- Among all Syrian refugees in Turkey, the proportion of women and children amounts to 75
percent.
- They are having enormously hard time getting to European countries (dropped
temperatures, no food, no proper clothes, most of them having cold)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIME

- Many have criticised Angela Merkel for her open door policy towards refugees
7 Jean-Claude Juncke, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5729_en.htm, 30
September, 2015.

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-She insisted that Germany can cope with invasion of people coming there
- Opponents believe refugees should be distributed fairly among the Europe.
- Germans have been protesting for government taking in so many of them
- Merkel has emphasized importance of solving this crisis at its beginning.
- Merkel popularity has fallen to very low point in last four years.
MIRROR UK
- Robert Menard, major of the French town, Beziers, is caught on camera, offending refuges,
saying they are not welcome in that town, and they are just causing damages and financial
loss for their town.
ZERO HEDGE
-Locals of many countries are not happy about refugees coming, especially because most of
them are poor, unskilled and less likely to develop.
- Whenever there is a war there will be refugees. It is a very predictable outcome so Europe
should have been prepared.
THE ECONOMIST
-Even Hungary and Slovenian ministers claim that most of the migrants arriving are
economic immigrants, seeking for a better life.
- European countries must offer a refuge some type of protection to asylum seekers
who can demonstrate that they are running away from the war.
- They are not under that obligation to those who are running to improve their life standards,
even if they have destructed life left behind them.
EURONEWS
-Migrants just came to Europe claiming they are Syrian, where majority of them are not.
- People throw their passports into the Mediterranean and say they are from Syria.8
- ISIL is sending jihadists to Europe among migrants.
- There should be tighter controls around refugees and migrants entering Europe. 9
- Majority of asylum seekers are coming to Europe to gather benefits. 10
- Accepting more migrants and refugees will encourage more and
more to come.
- Migrants might be bringing new diseases to Europe.
OXFORD JOURNAL
- International refugee law is a regime of protection connected to a legally constructed status
with specified guarantees11
8

Nigel Farage, http://www.euronews.com/2015/09/14/true-or-false-six-controversial-claims-on-eu-migrantcrisis/, 18. September, 2015

9 Jorge Fernandez Diaz, http://www.euronews.com/2015/09/14/true-or-false-six-controversial-claims-on-eumigrant-crisis/, 18. September,2015.
10 Aleksandar Vui, http://www.euronews.com/2015/09/14/true-or-false-six-controversial-claims-on-eumigrant-crisis/, 18. September, 2015.
11International refugee law as used here refers to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugee
Convention), 189 UNTS 150, 28 Jul. 1951 (entry into force: 22 Apr. 1954) and the Protocol relating to the Status of
Refugees, 606 UNTS 267, 31 Jan. 1967 (entry into force: 4 Oct. 1967). There are at present 145 States Parties to the 1951
Convention and 146 States Parties to the 1967 Protocol.

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-Migrants are accusing governments for not helping them enough.
DAILY MAIL
- Many of refuges risked their life and left the country for economic reasons.
-UK prime minister is suggesting to take in only refugees directly from Syrian
regions.
-That would ensure that only vulnerable ones are taken in and also prevent migrants
on dangerous journeys which often ends up tragically.

Why are my sources credible?

-BBC attracts more than 78 million viewers a week.
- They are independent from government and any political parties.
- Articles provides graphical overview for every fact and statement written down.
- Articles are always up with date.
-This site provided objective information and facts that characterise this refugee crisis.
-Purpose is informative and not biased. Material Is regularly updated.
- It is clear for reading.
- There is no propaganda or political persuading.
-Authors are on the field and experiencing everything as primary source.
- Objective information and facts that characterise this refugee crisis.
- Purpose is informative and not biased. Material is regularly updated.
- Some of the sources have real videos and pictures of refugees and their situation crossing
borders.
- Sources provide both views on refugee crisis (positive& negative)
- Every source has an author provided, date of publishment and update.
-Articles are widely shared
- There are background researches behind them.

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