NESRINE MALIK
People are kinder than our leaders realise
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uropean governments are beginning to panic about migration again. So far this year there have been nearly 120,000 “irregular” arrivals. Most of these people travelled through Tunisia and Libya and on to Italy. It is the highest number since 2017, the year after the EU – fearing a populist backlash – did a morally questionable deal with Turkey, channelling €6bn ($6.6bn) to Ankara in exchange for the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s, agreement to prevent 3.5 million refugees, most of them displaced
