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Europe's Migrant Crisis: The EU's Greatest Test Yet
Last week's discovery of 71 bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria is just the latest tragic proof that Europe's migration crisis has broadened from the Mediterranean to human trafficking over land through Greece and the Balkan states.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 31m ListenLast week's discovery of 71 bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria is just the latest tragic proof that Europe's migration crisis has broadened from the Mediterranean to human trafficking over land through Greece and the Balkan states. Tens of thousands of migrants and refugees are putting their lives in the hands of smugglers, taking advantage of the EU's open borders. With record numbers of people fleeing war and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, Europe is facing its largest immigration wave since World War II. The EU plans to meet next month to address the mounting crisis and its scattered policy towards asylum seekers. Will it be able to agree on a unified course of action on how to treat migrants and asylum seekers? What to do about a growing backlash against them?
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Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Christine Detz
Producer, 'To the Point'
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Melissa Eddy
International New York Times
Bill Frelick
Human Rights Watch
Simon Kent
Breitbart London
The full episode
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- 8:43Europe's Migrant Crisis: The EU's Greatest Test YetYou’re reading this
- 40:41Remembering Oliver Sacks, the Poet Laureate of Modern Medicine