In an effort to retake this conversation from this forum's darker interests, I've decided to create a broad spectrum thread on this topic, as today the European Union has agreed reallocate 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33276443
150,000 migrants reached Europe's borders in 2015 already, with roughly equal numbers, 60,000 each, arriving by sea to Greece and Italy. Far fewer have traveled overland through Serbia and into Hungary Up 150% on last year, the surge has primarily been caused by continuing conflict in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan and oppressive regimes, such as Eritrea.
Thousands have drowned attempting the sea crossings this year already, with deaths in the Western Mediterranean already threatening to outstrip the deaths reported in the whole of 2014. This has been attributed to the cancellation of Italy's Operation Mare Nostrum, a rescue and patrol operation, that the Italian Government claimed it could not afford to fund. The cancellation caused a tenfold increase in deaths and led to the the EU replacement Operation Triton. Funding is voluntary, and Italy does not contribute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mare_Nostrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Triton
The European Union is governed by a universal asylum policy - the Common European Asylum System. A set of regulations known as the Dublin Regulations govern this, including the agreement that typically an asylum seeker is the responsibility of the EU state to which they enter. Greece, Italy and Hungary claim this results in taking more than their fair share of asylum seekers.
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs...m/index_en.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation
However, in reality Germany is overwhelmingly responsible for taking in the EU's asylum seekers, and is also the single greatest recipient of asylum seekers in the world. France, Sweden, the UK, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Poland follow in that order (in 2013). Germany, Finland and several other countries also waive Greece's Dublin II obligations and do not send asylum seekers who enter through Greece back there.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24636868
The crisis has coincided with the rise of the far-right in Hungary and Greece and the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and the announcement that the UK will hold a referendum on leaving the EU, brought to bare by dissent over migration. Both Hungary's far-right Jobbik and Greece's neo-nazi Golden Dawn are the third largest Parliamentary party in their respective states, despite most of the Golden Dawn Parliamentary party being in jail for charges as serious as murder. This week Hungary suggested it would violate the Dublin II treaty and refuse to accept the return of any asylum seekers - but quickly u-turned on this the next day.
The new agreement is not a complete one. The UK has opted out, and Hungary and Bulgaria have been given exemptions by the EU for taking any migrants.