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Europeans Unite in Migrant Standoff with Turkey

Lisa Bryant

   PARIS - The tent camps sprouting around Paris are a potent affirmation
   that Europe has never figured out a sustainable migration strategy
   since its 2015-16 migrant crisis. In periodic pre-dawn raids, police
   dismantle them. But eventually they sprout back, often in tougher,
   grimier places.

   Today, fears of another mass influx of asylum-seekers have come roaring
   back, and not just in France. The trigger came a week ago, when Turkish
   President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would no longer comply with a
   2016 migrant deal with the European Union to keep Syrians and other
   asylum-seekers on Turkish soil.

   Those now pressing to cross Turkey's border with Greece number in the
   thousands, rather than the nearly 1 million migrants that flooded into
   the European Union a few years ago.

   But they have again fueled nationalist rhetoric and, on the other side,
   concerns that the EU risks breaching international humanitarian law and
   its own values. More broadly, the current situation underscores
   Europe's piecemeal strategy at best of handling another mass influx.

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