Kelsey P. Norman, PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: A supra-national entity of 500 million, the E.U. is up in arms at the 1 million Syrian refugees who entered its borders last year. To put this in perspective, that’s about the same number of Syrian refugees currently in Lebanon, a country of just 4.5 million.

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