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To the Point

Can the European Union Survive the Refugee Crisis?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The biggest flood of refugees since World War II has divided the European Union against itself, with Western countries agreeing to accept proportional quotas while four members of the former Warsaw Pact are refusing to go along.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

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0:08.7

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0:17.8

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:25.6

Can the European Union survive the refugee crisis?

0:32.6

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

0:39.1

Not since World War II. Has Europe seen so many refugees, and not since the Cold War, has the continent been so divided?

0:45.4

The European Union's crowning achievement is abolishing internal border controls.

0:49.9

But four former members of the old Soviet bloc are working on barbed wire fences.

0:54.7

Leaders who've been whipping up right-wing xenophobia aren't going along with yesterday's established quota for every member nation.

1:01.5

Meantime, the UNs, as the total agreed to, is only a tiny fraction of the flow from Syria, Iraq, and Eritrea alone.

1:09.0

Today's talking point. It ain't over till it's over.

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and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. Hello again, I'm

1:45.1

and I'll be back with To the Point. The biggest flood of refugees since World War II has divided

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the European unit against itself, with Western countries agreeing to accept proportional quotas,

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