2018-07-26

Migration matters: the EU summit（欧盟的难民危机）

① As so often before^[1], illegal immigration will dominate^[2] the two-day gathering of EU leaders that starts today in Brussels.
② What makes this time different is that the crisis is solely political.
③ Asylum applications and border detections are not especially higher than they were before the mass refugee flows of 2015-16.
④ But Europe has not got over its migration hangover: Angela Merkel is under pressure from a hardline coalition partner to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers arriving at Germany's borders, while Italy's new populist government wants to stop them reaching Europe in the first place.
⑤ To remedy this the leaders will discuss various ideas, including "disembarkation platforms" outside the EU to which immigrants picked up at sea can be taken, and from where those without a claim for protection can be returned.
⑥ The administrative and legal difficulties around such proposals are legion.
⑦ But so are the political pressures Europe's leaders face at home.

词与词组

Migration n. 迁移, 移居（大规模的移动，从一个地方移动到另一个地方）

• immigration n.移居（指移居它国，指移入从一个国家移入到移民的国家）
• emigration n. 移居外国；迁移出境（移出，指从本国移出）

dominate vt. 占据主导地位；统治
solely adv. 完全地；纯粹地 (completely/purely/entirely/exclusively)
asylum n. 避难

• seek political asylum: 寻求 (政治) 避难

refugee n. 避难者; 难民
hangover n. 遗留影响；宿醉
hard line: 强硬路线/态度
hardline / hard-line adj. 强硬的
coalition n. 联盟
populist adj. 民粹的
populism n. 民粹主义
remedy vt. 弥补；纠正
embark vi. 上船
embark on: 开始做……
disembark vi. 下船

• disembarkation n. 下船
  claim vt. 声称, 断言 n. 主张, 断言
  proposal n. 提议，建议；求婚
  legion adj. 大量的；非常多的 n. 军团

补充

get over: 从……中恢复过来
asylum-seeker 寻求庇护者

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1. 时间状语：和往常一样。 ↩

2. sth. dominates the meeting/gathering (of): 某个问题成为 (……) 会议的主要议题 ↩