Onslaught too great

Alliance: “Situation in Syria must be reassessed”

Migrants on their way to a camp near the UN buffer zone: Cyprus has stopped processing asylum applications for Syrians.(Bild: IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU / AFP / picturedesk.com)

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) is seeking alliances in Cyprus for a faster return of Syrian refugees to safe home areas. The EU has a long way to go to achieve this. However, after 13 years of civil war, things are moving forward. A report from Nicosia.

"Enough is enough!" The otherwise inconspicuous President Nikos Christodoulidis had clear words for the EU and its lame migration policy: "We are not in a position to take in any more Syrian refugees."