Migration matters: the EU summit（歐盟的難民危機(jī)）
① As so often before[1], illegal immigration will dominate[2] the two-day gathering of EU leaders that starts today in Brussels.
② What makes this time different is that the crisis is solely political.
③ Asylum applications and border detections are not especially higher than they were before the mass refugee flows of 2015-16.
④ But Europe has not got over its migration hangover: Angela Merkel is under pressure from a hardline coalition partner to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers arriving at Germany's borders, while Italy's new populist government wants to stop them reaching Europe in the first place.
⑤ To remedy this the leaders will discuss various ideas, including "disembarkation platforms" outside the EU to which immigrants picked up at sea can be taken, and from where those without a claim for protection can be returned.
⑥ The administrative and legal difficulties around such proposals are legion.
⑦ But so are the political pressures Europe's leaders face at home.
詞與詞組
Migration n. 遷移, 移居（大規(guī)模的移動(dòng)铜犬，從一個(gè)地方移動(dòng)到另一個(gè)地方）
- immigration n.移居（指移居它國(guó)厢破，指移入從一個(gè)國(guó)家移入到移民的國(guó)家）
- emigration n. 移居外國(guó)蝶桶；遷移出境（移出，指從本國(guó)移出）
dominate vt. 占據(jù)主導(dǎo)地位该园；統(tǒng)治
solely adv. 完全地槽驶；純粹地 (completely/purely/entirely/exclusively)
asylum n. 避難
- seek political asylum: 尋求 (政治) 避難
refugee n. 避難者; 難民
hangover n. 遺留影響审洞；宿醉
hard line: 強(qiáng)硬路線/態(tài)度
hardline / hard-line adj. 強(qiáng)硬的
coalition n. 聯(lián)盟
populist adj. 民粹的
populism n. 民粹主義
remedy vt. 彌補(bǔ)呼畸；糾正
embark vi. 上船
embark on: 開(kāi)始做……
disembark vi. 下船
- disembarkation n. 下船
claim vt. 聲稱, 斷言 n. 主張, 斷言
proposal n. 提議痕支，建議；求婚
legion adj. 大量的蛮原；非常多的 n. 軍團(tuán)
補(bǔ)充
get over: 從……中恢復(fù)過(guò)來(lái)
asylum-seeker 尋求庇護(hù)者
