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Arab Spring and Fear of Migrant Surge Expose Rift in EU

Immigration Policy Circles

Crisis in European Union

European countries fear of a large scale movement of migrants and asylum seekers toward the European Union Southern’s border.

Two European countries, Italy and Malta received 50,000 out of 800,000 immigrants from Libya and Tunisia.

Italian government appealed for broader financial and technical support from European Union to managed the flow, Italy feel it’s a burden to share among European countries.

European Union Working on Long Term Solution

Other European country feel unsympathetic based on the fact that Italy was once collaborated with former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to prevent immigrant inflow of Northern and sub-Saharan Africans.

With little support, Italy granted 22,000 Tunisian immigrants allowing them to roam around Europe, France closed its border.

Arab Spring exposed to weakness and long held disagreement based on following the rule of European Union of asylum, immigration, and external border policy.

At the European summits at June, minisiters supported of the Schengen system to unifed Europe.

It’ll be prove difficult to maintain of disconnected politics and immigrations in respect of enforcement and humanitarian assistance.