| > Do you have the faintest idea what it means for a small country like Italy to be forced to import 600.000 migrants in 5 years? I don't want to get into an argument about immigration politics, but it strikes me as odd that you consider Italy "small". It has 60 million inhabitants, making it forth most populous country in the EU, and is the seventh largest country in the EU by area. [1] For scale, Jordan has taken at least in 650,000 Syrian refugees [2], and it's only a third of the size of Italy, and a sixth of the population. Or take Lebanon. It is a 30th the size of Italy, with only 6 million inhabitants (1/10 that of Italy), but has taken in nearly a million Syrian refugees. [3] I don't want to dismiss or diminish the trouble that Italy is going through because of the tensions in the Middle East, but calling Italy "small" indicates a lack of perspective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U... [2] http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=107 [3] http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=122 |