The EU received 1.1 million refugees within a year’s time between early 2015 and 2016. This was widely known and is still called the refugee “crisis” of 2015-16. In the year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU received at least four times as many Ukrainian refugees (probably closer to five times) as the number of refugees in the “crisis” year 2015-16. There has been no remotely comparable political freakout over the Ukrainian refugees.
European refugee policy: here we go again
European refugee policy: here we go again
European refugee policy: here we go again
The EU received 1.1 million refugees within a year’s time between early 2015 and 2016. This was widely known and is still called the refugee “crisis” of 2015-16. In the year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU received at least four times as many Ukrainian refugees (probably closer to five times) as the number of refugees in the “crisis” year 2015-16. There has been no remotely comparable political freakout over the Ukrainian refugees.