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Week 1 (05.10 - 11.10) Syrian Immigrants

Today one of the most interesting topics presented and discussed by the media is immigration to Europe. This topic should be relevant to each and every citizen of the European Union, because migration of people from outside of Europe is increasing every year. Currently one of the biggest migration problems is migration from Syria. Below you can see how many people migrating from Syria to Europe were detected on borders of different countries. As you can see the total number of detections has increased dramatically since 2014 from 7,431 to 56,766 and it will be higher probably in the next year. Below you can see how immigrants will be distributed in European countries according to Jean-Claude Junker, current European Commission President. Junker’s distribution quotas are based on wealth of destination countries. According to this plan, every country of the European Union will have to take immigrants into its country under the threat of penalty of 0.002% of its own budge

Week 1(05.10 - 11.10) Muslims in Europe

Currently Europe is facing many problems and one of the most important of them concerns ethnic Muslim minorities in Europe. As you may know, Muslims usually don't want to assimilate with the local society, they prefer to create separated from the society communities. The problem is not so big if there is only a few of them, but it is becoming bigger and bigger when those separated communities are growing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4385768.stm#france Here you can check how many Muslim people were in Europe in 2010 according to BBC News. This article also includes the historical background of migration. http://time.com/3670892/muslims-europe-map/ Here you can see figures of the Muslim population in Europe in 1990, 2010 and prediction in 2030 according to Time. As you may figure out from the presented number of Muslims in certain countries the problem is growing at really fast pace and if we don't do something about it in future we will be liv