Challenging times lie ahead for the European Union.

Its approach to asylum seekers surely needs a rethink. Wave after wave of migrants are fleeing countries in Africa and the Middle East where poverty and turmoil reign supreme. Unfortunately, without their slightest knowledge, these poor souls are stirring up populist politics in Europe and fire up the far-right parties as has been already demonstrated in various member states.

It would be foolish for the EU to ignore this issue. The government in Italy, for example, is giving it a most hysterical interpretation instead of placing the migration drama on their agenda and addressing it in a level-headed way. Hungary and Poland are following suit.

To find refuge in a safer country, these migrants are risking their lives by travelling on small boats. European bosses know it but they just talk, talk and talk and let us believe we have a crisis.

Is this what we really call a crisis? I would say no. This is not a crisis, as some politicians would have us believe. It is simply the continuation, albeit at a faster pace, of a phenomenon that has been under way for ages. The numbers are still comparatively minor and could be addressed more rationally by the EU if all member states agree to share the burden.