New EU Leadership: Implications for the European Refugee Crisis

One of the largest forced migration crises in this century has entered its ninth year without seeing a light at the end of the tunnel for peace and stability in Syria. Since 2011, 13 million people have been forced to migrate, including around 6.6 million people who relocated to the country’s safer regions. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), by September 12, 2019, there are 5,640,126 registered refugees who reside outside Syria.