Western Europe are helping Poland and Romania which are direct neighbors and do have to accept refugees. Actually the real mystery is why the EU would take any

Western Europe are helping Poland and Romania which are direct neighbors and do have to accept refugees. Actually the real mystery is why the EU would take anyone at all from Syria, which is pure courtesy and zero obligation. And the answer is that the EU is a wannabe moral superpower that’s great at taking in refugees (or people claiming to be refugees) and bad at everything that comes after. It’s already over its capacity to absorb outsiders. In the end the EU heads of state act surprised that anti-foreigner sentiments and the popularity of right-wing parties are rising, rinse and repeat while the wheels haven’t fallen off yet. The UK seem to know their limits since their new found independence and just as expected they’re getting skewered for not throwing the gates wide open.