Europe’s strategies must not amount to pushing the problem further away from its shores, rather than trying to solve it. The EU is pushing African governments to clamp down on traffickers’ networks and to tighten control over key border areas. Europe is in effect externalising its migration problem to African countries, after partly outsourcing it to Turkey. Yet as migration routes shift, the human tragedies simply go with them. But stemming the movement of people by trying to build more barriers means that Europe’s policies are failing to match its stated values.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2017 18:33 UTC