WAVE OF MISERY SWEEPS EUROPE AS REFUGEE CRISIS WORSENS.

'The European Union must bear the burden of the refugee crisis and establish a uniform system for giving asylum' these are the words of French President Francois Hollande. Millions of displaced people have trooped to the West in search of a safer life as the war in Syria seems to have no end.This has become a real irritant for Europe where citizens and officials alike say the crisis is stretching resources and threatening security.An estimated 1 million refugees, many from Syria, are making their way to European Union nations that have agreed to take them in. But their treacherous path crosses Greece and winds through Balkan nations including Macedonia and Serbia, which are finding themselves overwhelmed. Many blame European Union officials for making policy that has brought a wave of human misery across their borders. As they travel to the EU, The refugees have to traverse the Balkan countries of Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary. Since Balkan countries are not members of NATO or the EU, and they have sensitive economies and defenses. The refugees have fueled crime and smuggling of people and other illegal businesses.”The EU has allocated the equivalent of about $2.7 million to Macedonia and Serbia to aid refugees, an amount seen as woefully inadequate in nations where streets have become flooded with hungry refugees and mass transit is taxed to the breaking point. Most of the refugees are from the Syria while others have fled Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria and Iraq. the majority are Muslims and want to relocate to pre-dominatly Christian countries of the West because they have seen what the largely Muslim-on-Muslim violence in their homelands has wrought, and seek the relative safety of the west. Most asylum applications are from people of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan seek to live in Germany, followed by France, Britain, Austria, Sweden and Belgium. They seem to have taken Europe hostage from all sides as their influx in droves suggest. The EU plans to take in 800,000 refugees this year, with Germany taking the most. Although the policy has created a backlash in Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the anti-refugee sentiment a “disgrace for Germany.”