Europe facing refugees

Abstract

Europe redraws itself with each migration crisis. In the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived from the Balkans. In 2015 and 2016 the number exceeded one million in the context of the Syrian war. In 2022 the war in Ukraine has caused a new reception crisis. This article analyses the crises of 2015 and 2022. The conclusion is that the crises do not result from the numbers but from the fears of an increasingly inward-looking Europe. Indeed, to such an extent that, as Krastev points out, these migratory crises may end up representing the beginning of the end of European liberalism.
Keywords: refugees, crises, Europe, migration policies.