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The current influx of asylum seekers, refugees, and economic migrants into Western Europe presents a profound challenge to the European Union’s values, solidarity, and capacity to simply manage and accommodate such a rapid inflow of people.
As Europe has struggled to articulate a collective response to a flood of refugees from the Middle East and Africa, Germany has positioned itself as the continent’s good cop, coming to the rescue with a vow to take in 800,000 migrants.
