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Reflections on Flight and Migration to Europe

Joachim Gauck
World Economic Forum, 2016
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The refugee crisis that accelerated in 2015 blindsided Europe’s leaders. In this 2016 World Economic Forum presentation, President Joachim Gauck of Germany broaches the divisive topic of how Germany and its neighbors ought to handle the crisis. He calls for European solidarity in extending aid to migrants, yet he warns that Germany must limit the influx of migrants to maintain social and political cohesion. As Germany leads Europe’s response to the refugee crisis, getAbstract recommends Gauck’s intelligent, compassionate and pragmatic insights to policy makers, peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers tasked with finding creative solutions to the current predicament.

Take-Aways

  • According to a World Economic Forum study, the most pressing issue facing the world is increased refugee flows. Europeans have a “humanitarian responsibility” to offer persecuted migrants refuge.
  • Of the European Union member states, Germany took the lead in responding to the Syrian refugee crisis and welcomed more than one million refugees in 2015. But Germany doesn’t have endless resources.
  • To safeguard social and political cohesion and to provide the best care for migrants already in Germany, the nation will set a limit on the number of migrants it accepts.

About the Speaker

Joachim Gauck is a former Lutheran pastor. He became president of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2012.

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