Europe’s Refugee Crisis to Worsen with Spring Weather (Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, PIIE)

With spring approaching, and with it clearer skies in the Aegean Sea, rising numbers of refugees will be crossing into Greece and elsewhere in Europe in coming months. A series of EU summits planned in March must deal urgently with the continent’s migration emergency, and there are no good options. Two distinct plans have emerged, however.

http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=5447&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24%7Bfeed%7D&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24%7BRealTime%7D+%28%24%7BRealTime%7D%29

The Odds Remain against a Brexit (Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Peterson Institute)

http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=5422&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24%7Bfeed%7D&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24%7BRealTime%7D+%28%24%7BRealTime%7D%29

How Europe will fail to address the migration crisis in early 2016 (Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, VoxEU)

http://www.voxeu.org/article/europe-s-migration-crisis-2016