European Migrant Crisis Series: Crisis threatens to return in its full blown form

In rubber and wooden boats, European Migrant crisis is threatening to return in its full-blown form, similar to last year. At one hand, after a brief period of a slowdown the numbers of arrivals have increased once again, and Turkey, with which the European Union has struck a deal that helped in slowing down the number of arrivals in Greece, is now threatening to cancel it if its demands, which were part of the deal.

According to the data from International Organization for Migration, more than 100,000 people have arrived in Italy since the beginning of the year. In less than a week, Italian coastguards have saved more than 13,000 people in the sea. These people were coming from Africa. This reality has been escaping the mainstream media and the remarkable attention it demands from pan-European politicians. While the flows from Turkey to Greece have somewhat dried due to unilateral border actions by Balkan states as well as the deal with Turkey, but Italy is deepening into a greater crisis.

Turkey has already issued a deadline that if its citizens aren’t granted Visa-free travel to Europe the deal is off and that would mean hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving in Europe through Greece.

The crisis that has already been changing the political landscape of Europe is once again threatening to emerge its head after a brief repose.