Two aspects of the European migration agenda are intransigence for the EU's border security, and generosity in humanitarian aid and development assistance for refugees and their host communities. These were the watchwords used by the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, at the opening of the UN summit on mass flows of refugees and migrants, which ended in New York on Tuesday 20 September with a declaration.
Tusk welcomed this UN initiative in favour of burden sharing in the...