Talking about the upcoming EU "mini" summit on Sunday, Jiang Shixue said “This kind of refugee crisis has been going on for the past several years, and we can’t count on one summit will finish the whole story of this crisis. There are so many things that leaders can discuss. One of the most important questions might be the Dublin Regulation, which is about the so-called "refugee crisis.”
“According to this law, the first country to accept foreign refugees must go through all kinds of paperwork, and check and review, and then it can process to the next step. If the Dublin convention can be fully implemented, Grace, Italy, Hungary and some other countries, will be the first targets, so they will need more energy, more money, and more time to deal with this crisis. Germany and France would like to see the Dublin Regulation can be carried out, but Italy and Grace will not be very happy.”
The ongoing crisis has worn out Europe's hospitable stance. And for the upcoming summit to have any real outcome or solution, Europe's plans will have to strike a balance between humanitarian aid, and the bloc's growing debts.
Merkel's French ally Emmanuel Macron suggested a milder way out of this situation during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Conte. The two agreed that the EU should build refugee processing camps in Africa, to keep the problem on the other side of the Mediterranean.
Jiang said he is quite pessimistic about the immigration crisis, as the EU has just gotten out of the haze from its economic growth, and hundreds of millions of people are entering Europe, so Italy and Grace will be in a very terrible situation to deal with the refugee crisis.
On the other hand, there is political disunity among EU members. Therefore, a political consensus must be reached in the first place on how to deal with this crisis. Or it will not be resolved.
What’s more, the EU should consider what they can do to deal with the route course of the refugee crisis. The civil war in Syria is still going on after more than seven years. Hunger and famine are still getting worse and worse in Africa, so the EU, the U.S. and the international community must deal with route course of this refugee crisis, otherwise, there would be no end to this problem.
