Journal of Liberty and Intern Published online by th © 2016 Rossen Koroutchev This is an open access article distributed Date of acceptance: March 11, 2016 Date of publication: May 20, 2016 Review article UDC 325.244.4(4:569.1) THE SYR Taller de E The manuscript analyzes the cur neighboring countries such as J first instance decisions in asylum of the refugee’s influx. Several s in order to ensure more sustaina Key words: Syrian refugees; Eur The refugees and World after the Second Wo were about 19.5 million re about 14.4 million, were compared to the previous y the EU did not expect stro "Arab Spring" marked the Mediterranean from Tunis magnitude when the politic refugees. The average of a 2002, has been replaced by 1.005.500 at 21 of Decemb crossing the Mediterranean Spain, Cyprus and Malta h 30.000 arrived in Bulgaria f national Affairs | Vol. 1, Supp. 1, 2016 | Special the Institute for Research and European Studies – Bitola at w under the CC-BY 3.0 License. RIAN REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUR Rossen Koroutchev, PhD Estudios Mediterraneos, Facultad de Filosofia y L Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain rkoroutchev[at]yahoo.es Abstract rrent refugee’s crisis in Europe and the situation of the Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The presented compar m policies of several European countries is accompan suggestions related to the necessary measures to be ta able migration patterns are discussed in detail. ropean Migration policy; Borders; Integration INTRODUCTION migration crisis is one of the major challeng orld War. According to a recent report of IOM efugees worldwide at the end of 2014. An e under the mandate of UNHCR that is arou year (UNHCR 2015b). The Dublin Regulati ong arrivals of asylum seekers. However, i beginning of a significant number of irregu sia and Libya towards Italy and Malta, th cal conflict in Syria started. The war in Syria about 300.000 refugees per year in the EU du y a arrival of asylum seekers, reaching 663.00 ber of 2015 (IOM 2015a, b). 970.000 refugee n. The major part of them has reached Gr have been less affected (Migration Policy C from Turkey by land (Figure 1). l Issue | eISSN 1857-9760 www.e-jlia.com 26 ROPE Letras, e Syrian refugees in Syria’s rative analysis between the nied by additional statistics aken in short and long term ges for Europe and the M (IOM 2015b), there essential part of them, und 2.9 million more ion was adopted when in 2011, the so-called ular travels across the hat later increased in a caused over 4 million uring the period 1994- 00 in 2014 and almost es arrived in Europe by reece and Italy, while Center 2015). Another