The root causes of migration have probably been the worst handled issue by European leaders. For decades, regular waves of migrants and asylum seekers have risked their lives to arrive to the European Union. They arrived from West Africa to the Canary Islands; to the Spanish enclaves in Ceuta and Melilla; from the Libyan shores to Lampedusa and Malta; and now hundreds of thousands via Turkey to Greece and Bulgaria. The answer has always been the same. More money was invested in building up “fortress Europe”, in stopping them at the borders; pushing hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of help in the hands of increasingly reckless and unscrupulous smugglers. Last March, a boat loaded with asylum seekers sunk off the Libyan coast. Over 700 of them were locked in