The number of migrants and refugees that entered Europe by sea in 2019 marks the sixth year in a row that figures were at least 100,000, according to the International Organisation for Migration. The report says that 110,669 people arrived on three Mediterranean Sea Routes. The total is about 5% lower than the number that arrived in 2018, which was 116,273.
Despite this, the EU continues to suffer from inability to integrate newcomers into its societies and contain the rise of radicalism across the region.
The New Year holidays in Europe was marked by a number of security incidents:
France’s Strasbourg:
https://twitter.com/Britishandprou2/status/1212414776225280000
https://twitter.com/stephanebourhis/status/1212267952462061568
#Strasbourg #elsau après le 31/12 ! #voituresbrûlées pic.twitter.com/IjgU96z5xu
— Stéphane BOURHIS (@stephanebourhis) January 3, 2020
#Strasbourg … omerta pic.twitter.com/fZMKl1e5fS
— Stéphane BOURHIS (@stephanebourhis) January 1, 2020
France’s Paris:
Using these fresh facts some forces are trying to distabilize the situation even further by recirculating the 2016 video of migrant disorders in Berlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0PctLVBBPY&feature=youtu.be
