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"en.20130912.42.4-194-000"2
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"Mr President, mass migration is a central geo-political factor of our age; huge movements of peoples in a way that is unprecedented, and we can measure it in lots of different ways. We can describe it with different language, we can talk about it as a move from south to north, or from poorer countries to developed ones. But one way of looking at it is that there is a mass movement of peoples from countries which do not have nation states and ethnographic borders to countries that do.
The biggest refugee crises now engulfing our near abroad, if you like, are those in Syria and Iraq, countries where the sectarian or ethnic map resembles a fruit salad. There have been 1.8 million displaced persons in Syria, 2.2 million in Iraq, because there is not that stability of the nation state, a unit to which all owe allegiance, which has been the basis of European freedom and democracy.
I am sure you can see where I am going with this argument. It would be crazy for us to replicate the Ottoman or Habsburg model and throw away that advantage on our own continent."@en1
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