As harrowing scenes of the lifeless body of 3-year old boy
clad in a red shirt and tiny sneakers lying face down at Turkish shores
continues to haunt humanity particularly Europe, the migration crisis of
European Union has now the prime media glare across the globe. Aylan Kurdi is
one of many refugees who have lost their lives en-route to seeking asylum fleeing
troubled situations back home but is the most heart rending scenes that has put
the European leadership in a real fix to handle the alarmingly escalating
number of refugees seeking asylum in member nations.

The EU migrants’ crisis originates from trouble torn nations
such as Libya where a fresh spark of disturbance has been born, the war ridden
Syria, many of the North African instable nations such as Somalia, Nigeria and
even Afghanistan, Pakistan and so on. Statistics state a total of 36,800
pending asylum requests, mostly for Germany after it opened doors to all
immigrants, while illegal immigrants’ counts suggest something around 200,000. This
has led to a huge pressure on the resource constraints of the nations with such
high numbers of migrants thereby prompting the EU’s Frontex to upgrade external
Schengen borders.
The primary movement of refugees is from Turkey into Greece,
making Greece a prime entry-point to Germany. Unpleasant scenes of sufferings
by the refugees have surfaced in recent times with the Greek government refused
the migrants to take a train to Germany. The Budapest station is thronged by thousands
of such immigrants waiting to complete their journey onwards. It was only
yesterday when the Greek government finally allowed a train to Germany
overcrowded with refugees.
Sans this, the other key route to enter EU is through the Mediterranean
sea where drowning of overcrowded boats has accounted for as many as 22,000
lives lost or disappeared. As the Italian mission to search and rescue incoming
refugees stays constraint owing lack of financial support from EU, the
tentative approach of employing gunboats for driving away refugee boats came
under severe criticism with pics of dead Aylan leading newslines.
Presently, EU is facing serious problems with the alarming
statistics of immigrants and the threads of union are loosening as member
nations struggle to find a suitable solution to this precarious situation. The
erstwhile refugee policy drafted way back during World War II has been rendered lacklustre
for this situation demanding fresh brainstorming into the issue.
Though the problem is critical and diplomatic in nature, the
solution to this crisis, must be drafted keeping humanity in the driving seat than politics.