Chapter 131: The Refugee Crisis (Happy New Year)

Donald and his friend Anthony, after leaving Germany, did not fly directly to Africa, although it was closer to them, but they were out on a tour, and there was no need to rush the journey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

So they went to Sicily in Italy first, and although the nearby island of Corsica was also a good place to go, both Donald and Antony didn't like the French very much, so they were reluctant to go to French territory (Corsica is the largest island in France).

Sicily is located in the heart of the Mediterranean, and it attracts many tourists every year because of its typical maritime climate, with moderate temperatures, abundant sunshine, beautiful sandy beaches and bright eyes.

However, this winter, there were a lot of uninvited guests, that is, refugees from Libya in the south.

Since the end of World War II, people have been smuggled into Western Europe from Asia and Africa and even from Eastern Europe, and the high welfare policies of Western European countries are the biggest attraction for them.

The countries of North Africa, because their economies are relatively developed and their populations are not very large, there are not many smugglers, but this is not nothing.

Among the countries in North Africa, Egypt, Libya, and Algeria are relatively largest, and there is a small country of TNS in between.

Egypt is a tourist and industrial country, Libya and Algeria are resource-exporting countries, with their own rich oil reserves to be able to boost the national economy, so their domestic is not bad, the infrastructure is good, the educational resources are also good, people's lives have always been good, compared to sub-Saharan Africa, they are more like European countries, of course, they are not as good as the developed countries of Western Europe, but compared to the poor countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

The human race in North Africa is mainly white and brown-skinned people, and after the Sahara Desert, Central Africa and South Africa in the south are basically black, and the South African race is also brown in history, and then it was assimilated or eliminated by the colonizers, which gave rise to the Boers, and then after the development attracted a large number of poor relatives to come over, the skin color of the population changed from white to black.

Originally, North Africa was good, everyone lived well, and the welfare was good, not as good as Western Europe, but stronger than the Middle East and Eastern Europe, so there were people smuggled into Western Europe every year, but there were not many.

However, since 2010-2011, the situation in North Africa has undergone a great transformation, and after the Arab Spring and the Libyan war, Egypt and Libya have been greatly damaged and affected, and Egyptian President Mubarak and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been killed by various means by Western European "democracies".

And these two people are very important in the political pattern of North Africa, and after they stepped down, North Africa immediately began to be chaotic, and people who originally thought that "democracy" was coming, after more than half a year of tossing, found that the original situation was a little different from what they imagined.

The Libyan opposition, which received a large number of weapons support from Western countries, suddenly found itself without a target and an opponent after defeating the government army and shooting Gaddafi, and did not know what to do for a while, so the internal factions began to fight among themselves, and then the war began to spread endlessly across the country, and at the same time, the situation in Egypt was also very turbulent, and a civil war began to break out in Syria in the Middle East.

Then the situation is not only that, the conflict between Lao Maozi and Ermao in the north also broke out, the Crimean War has a tendency to repeat, in the nineteenth century and fifties of the Crimean War can be said to be fresh in the memory of Europeans, so when the war around Europe began to intensify, they suddenly realized that the Yankees were not at ease, and wanted to provoke a war at their own doorstep to prevent European integration, and then kicked Europe into the abyss, completely cutting off the possibility of them competing with the United States as a unified whole.

It's just that although the Europeans discovered the conspiracy of the Americans, it was too late to resist at this time, because the refugee crisis had already begun to erupt.

Since the winter of this year, refugees from the Middle East and North Africa have begun to march towards Europe in a big way, and Europe is geographically too close to these countries, so they can't avoid it at all, and the Americans ran away after bombing, and their country was cut off by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, no one could go there, and the planes were very strictly controlled, so they didn't need to worry at all, but made the Europeans anxious.

Europeans used to call themselves "democratic" countries, at this time other people's refugees could not go on, to join their banner of democracy, they had no choice but to swallow their teeth, and forcibly accepted these refugees, but this made a fatal mistake, that is, the refugees who had not planned to smuggle in, after seeing the open attitude of European countries, as if they were greatly encouraged, they came one after another, and marched towards Europe, approaching their ideal good life.

As for North African countries, the closest European country to them is Malta, but this is only a small country in the Mediterranean, the country is too small to accommodate so many people, so they chose the second closest country, that is, Italy, and the southernmost part of Italy, and the closest place to their smuggling place is Sicily.

Donald and Anthony had not expected such a change in the beautiful island of Sicily before they set out, but when they arrived, they found that the situation was very tense.

Italy is the fifth-largest country in Europe, behind Britain, France and Spain, and they are also an established developed country, although this developed country has not had a good time lately.

The terrain of the whole country of Italy is a long and narrow peninsula, both sides are close to the sea, the northeast is Adriatic HN side is the Mediterranean, the west side is adjacent to the French island of Corsica, the long coastline provides them with many port cities, and the port city because of the convenient water transportation conditions, so the economic development is generally relatively fast, so although Italy is a country that has not been unified for a long time, but the economic development is very rapid, it is one of the earliest countries in Europe to enter the ranks of developed countries, In both world wars, there was a strong stroke, although not very glorious.

However, in recent years, affected by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States in 08, European countries have broken out sovereign credit crises one after another, and small countries like Iceland have even gone bankrupt, while Italy and Greece in southern Europe can be described as brothers and sisters, and they have also fallen into dire straits, and it is difficult to extricate themselves!

At this time, the unemployment rate in Italy was high, the people's demonstrations were frequent, social unrest, and law and order declined, and the situation in the country had already made them too busy to take care of themselves, so for these refugees who fled here, they needed to spend a lot of time, money, manpower and material resources to resettle, their attitude was simply extremely poor, the refugees were confined to the seaside smuggling place, they were not allowed to enter the urban area, they were not allowed to move at will, and the police and army were sent to block the relevant areas and artificially isolate them.

Then the Italian government began to negotiate with the EU, you want to resettle these people, you can, but we in Italy do not accept it, because we can't live on our own.

The two sides began to argue, although the EU seems to be a whole, but everyone is a member country, each has its own small abacus, Italy said that he has difficulties and is unwilling to accept, the British immediately said that they also have difficulties and are not willing to accept, everyone rolled their eyes at the British, so the negotiations could not be carried out and were shelved.

In this way, these refugees have been delayed on the coast of Sicily for a very long time, and this has affected the tourism of Italy.

Originally, Italy's economy was not good, and you still affected my tourism, and now life will not be able to go on!