Talk politics.

Back to that refugee/immigration topic from the other day. The fact that most of Europe doesn't seem to care that its peripheral countries are struggling to cope with the ever increasing refugee and immigration pressure, is far from being the only problem here. Another problem is the way the relevant funds for tackling the problem are being distributed. According to EC data, since the plan was being prepared at the end of last year, data from the preceding period (2011-2013) was being used, when the refugee flows were quite different from what they are now.

This was the reason that countries like Hungary and Bulgaria remained way behind in terms of funding, while the refugee pressure on their borders has increased immensely for the last few months. In other words, there's a delay that makes these measures totally inadequate.

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