What will happen to Europe if it can’t control the migrant crisis?

The victory of the Freedom party in Austria’s general election came as Israel intensified its air strikes across Lebanon. Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, says that more than one million people have been displaced from their homes as a consequence of the military strikes.

Included in that figure are a substantial number of the estimated two million Syrian refugees who fled to Lebanon a decade ago to escape the war in their own country. Many have faced discrimination in Lebanon and it has been reported that during the Israeli air strikes Syrians have been refused entry into the country’s air raid shelters.

Thousands of Syrians are now returning to their homeland along with a growing number of Lebanese. They will find a country still ravaged by war. Earlier this month the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry warned that Syria faced ‘new waves of hostilities’.