“It is clear that the greatest tide of refugees and migrants is yet to come. Therefore we need to correct the policy of open doors and windows.” So said Donald Tusk at the EU summit meeting on Wednesday. As president of the European Council he had just returned from a visit to the Syrian frontline states of Turkey , Jordan and Lebanon , so is well informed on the condition of the four million refugees there. Population pressures are now push and pull factors in the European refugee crisis. They are plainly there in the surge of Syrian refugees from Turkey through Greece this summer. In the camps on Syria’s border people have given up hope of peace returning, going home or finding employment in Turkey itself. Led by younger men they are responding to signals from northern Europe that they could have a better life there – alongside […]