If one were to sum up, in a few short sentences, the main events of the year, one’s thoughts automatically leap to the migrants who met their deaths in the Mediterranean, or who are stuck in camps where the conditions are barely enough to keep them alive, or wandering from place to place waiting to be granted a status or to find the opportunity to travel illegally to the hoped-for country (see EUROPE B12378A7). To boats groaning with survivors looking for a European port that is prepared...