The head of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development is warning that the largest of the waves of migrants coming to Europe is still on its way.
Following are issues that are explained in an Express UK article:
— While migration figures are currently declining in parts of Europe, it is just the “calm before the storm.”
— The causes of the refugee crisis has not yet changed.
— There is a “tinderbox at the gates of Europe” with huge numbers of migrants preparing to to travel from West Africa to West Asia.
— Thousands of people have left their homes in the middle east due to the conflict.
— Everything must be done for countries with high birth rates to get development opportunities, that way girls do not get married at 14 and have time to form their lives.
— Thousands of migrants are risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea each month.
— Italy is seeing the largest increase in migrants. More than 25,000 arrived in Italy in July alone, which is a 12 percent increase over last year. Most come in flimsy dinghies over the Mediterranean Sea, usually Nigerians and Eritreans.
— 140,000 migrants are now housed in Italian shelters, a seven-fold increase over 2013.
— David Miliband, the former British foreign minister who now heads the International Rescue Committee said: “The forces that are driving more and more people from their homes – weak states, big tumults within the Islamic world, a divided international system. None of these things are likely to abate soon.”