If you had to identify a nadir for the European Union, it would probably be the late summer of 2015. In those heady days, vast flows of people — some refugees, some migrants — streamed across Anatolia and the Mediterranean for the Continent, intent on reaching the prosperous economies of its north and west, bolstered by Angela Merkel’s throwing open the doors to all who would come. For Europe’s leaders, priding themselves on European values — primary among them the prevention of atrocity within their territory — it was more than an embarrassing affair: It cut at the heart of the European project itself ...

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The Second European Migrant Crisis Begins

Noah Daponte-Smith

If you had to identify a nadir for the European Union, it would probably be the late summer of 2015. In those heady days, vast flows of people — some refugees, some migrants — streamed across Anatolia and the Mediterranean for the Continent, intent on reaching the prosperous economies of its north and west, bolstered by...

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