jan 1, 2015 - European Migrant Crisis
Description:
-Mass amount of refugees and migrants fled across the Mediterranean to seek asylum in EU member states
-Most of these migrants were Syrian refugees, who were fleeing their war-torn country
-This was a major crisis for EU member states, many having a major dilemma between accepting or rejecting these refugees.
Germany took the lead by accepting many of the refugees, but this lead to major instability and heated debate over EU rules for asylum
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