pwhodges wrote:It's hard living in the fifth largest economy in the world, isn't it. I mean, what purpose has wealth if not to help make things better for people? A little perspective would help a lot. And if some countries are less well placed than us to help (go on, compare life in Hungary with life in Syria right now), that's only more reason for us to step up.
Please don't put words into my mouth. Nowhere did I imply that life in Hungary of the Czech Republic is as bad as Syria. I'm just saying when your economy is struggling, taking in a bunch of refugees is going to add a lot of economic burdens. Most of the criticism I've read seems to be political, with many countries mad that the EU has essentially dictated what they have do. The EU was never sold as a political institution and has only morphed into that over time and with the general dilapidated economic state of Europe and the EUs perceived failures on that front, simply assigning quotas to countries sets a bad political precedent. It's only natural to want to help refugees but there are a lot of other issues that comes with granting large numbers of displaced people asylum.
