The European refugee crisis, which disappeared from the front pages for a while, is roaring back to prominence in the media as member states – by majority vote – are set to cram a 17-point plan to deal with the crisis down the throats of a dozen or more countries that are unalterably opposed to it. Eastern European countries are being ordered, against their will, to take in numbers of refugees for which they are unprepared financially and culturally.  This disagreement appears impossible to paper over as the EU did with the debt crisis for so many years because it goes to the heart of the idea of "sovereignty" within the EU and the rules governing its membership. Philip Johnson writing in the Telegraph: Arguably a transit centre in Europe might be preferable to a refugee camp in Jordan or Turkey, though the latter at least has the merit of being close to Syria, where there are finally tentative signs ofsome political progress being made. But...(Read Full Post)