Europe in crisis

The Hungarian government has made a catastrophic pig's ear in its handling of the refugee crisis. It's actions are incoherent; it is insisting on registering the refugees which would mean they would stay in Hungary, yet repeatedly sends xenophobic signals inconsistent with allowing them to remain.  

Shutting the main railway station in Budapest and leaving refugees, who'd already bought tickets to German, stranded for days was a terrible start; then allowing a train into the station, letting them board, only to be stopped a few miles down he road where a reception committee of riot police was waiting to escort them to a camp. While the comparison is clearly inaccurate, the spectre of a right-wing regime putting people onto trains that ended up in camps was hovering in the background. Today saw hundreds of refugees beginning to walk from Budapest towards Germany, a journey of over 700km, half though Austria, which is likely to about as welcoming as Hungary. 

Of course Europe as a whole has not really covered itself in glory either.  Jordan has taken between 600k and 1.4 million depending on your source, the higher figure being 20% of Jordan’s pre-crisis population. Lebanon has taken 1.2 million. These are small countries. The UK has so far taken 25k.