Europe faces several acute and inter-related challenges: large-scale arrivals of asylum-seekers, fragmentation of the Schengen area, wars and instability in neighbouring countries and a modest recovery which has not yet eased the insecurity created by the long economic crisis. Thousands of people have died on Europe’s borders in the past years and hundreds of thousands have suffered while trying to reach safety and a possibility to build normal lives in Europe. Many citizens are actively helping asylum-seekers, but racism and xenophobia are unfortunately gaining ground too.

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