'Refugees Approach EU overwhelming failure "

According to the organization's approach on "all fronts dramatically failed."

The international aid organization believes that Europe has not properly responded to the crisis, despite "numerous" conferences and meetings. "The response to the migration problem in Europe can only be described as an overwhelming failure," the report said.

Only a small proportion of European aid concentrated on the humanitarian needs: most efforts focused on deterrence, says MSF.

Violence

Europe is above all obstacles raised for the refugees. Thus warned member states not to use force, they placed barbed wire fences and they offered no safe and legal routes. In addition, the administrative procedures changed and was sometimes not provided adequate reception facilities in Italy and Greece.

The report designates these deterrents as 'ineffective' and 'restrictive': migrants often have no choice but to take dangerous routes.

Risky

From the picture that caregivers and patients sketched, is a disastrous European policy appear. More than 1 million people left their homeland behind last year, in the hope of a better life.

"If I had known that Europe was so difficult to achieve, I had never taken my children," said a Syrian man. "We came to Europe for the safety of my children. But I would rather die in Syria than that, this way, living in Europe. "

"A trip to Mars is getting closer," said another refugee. "One thing I know for sure: such a risky journey I never make more."

Exacerbated

The organization complains about the literal limits were sometimes raised. Therefore, the work must sometimes be scaled up dramatically. "Never before has decided MSF itself to go on with rescue ships to sea to save lives. The humanitarian situation of thousands of men, women and children are even worse. "

MSF therefore recommends that the European countries in 2016 carefully study the human consequences of their decisions. The crisis is not over.

No game

"The obstacle course to Europe, to the death, is not a game. We call, therefore, for Europe to ensure safe routes and stop playing with people's lives and dignity, "the aid agency.

"The year 2015 will be remembered as the year when Eu rope catastrophically failed in its responsibility to deal with refugees."

Els Anchor / Metronieuws.nl/ © Photo: Reuters / Nake Batev