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The Burning of Moria Is All of Europe’s Fault
Until the EU fixes its broken refugee policies, it will stumble from one humanitarian disaster to another.
Europe’s refugee policy in ashes.
Photographer: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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It almost doesn’t matter who started the fires this week in the squalid refugee camp on Lesbos called Moria, leaving thousands to sleep on the streets.
It could have been the desperate migrants, dwelling in cramped tents without clean toilets and forced by Covid-19 to “quarantine,” whatever that may mean in such conditions. It could have been local Greeks, who resent what they see as a slum that sullies their beautiful island. Or the fires could have flared all by themselves, because in such a wretched place, bad things are just bound to happen.