Quake Crisis to Sharpen Europe Migration Debate
Debris from destroyed residential apartment buildings in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb. 8.
Photographer: Cansu Yildirann/BloombergEuropean leaders are set today for yet another prickly debate about migration, one they’ve chewed over since the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. But the backdrop now is particularly acute.
The discussion in Brussels could go well into the evening. At the same time, thousands of miles away, more than 16,000 people have died in the earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and Syria. Many thousands more remain trapped under rubble or forced from destroyed homes in freezing conditions.