And how is Europe supposed to stop it exactly? Shoot the people in the Mediterranean? Sink the boats mid stream? What would you have done with this illegal migration of mostly young men? How would any country have handled the nightmare?
" No amount of atomic bombs will be able to dam up the tidal wave comprising human beings in their millions which one day will leave the southern most and poor part of the world, to erupt the relatively open spaces of the wealthy northern hemisphere, in search of survival."
                                                                                          President Boumediene, March 1974