1 - The root cause of the crisis is that the legal basis for asylum was drawn up when very few had the means to seek it.

2 - The Netherlands has just declared an amnesty for 30000 illegal immigrants whose asylum applications were previously rejected as bogus.

3 - According to the asylum policy currently practiced by Britain and urgently in need of improvement, refugees are detained on arrival in the country, and completion of legal procedures takes quite a long time.

4 - Eastern European governments remain implacably opposed to the EU’s plans to distribute hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers across Europe.

5 - The global refugee crisis has ignited debate in nearly every country that has seen an influx of refugees and asylum seekers.