Tackling the Causes of Asylum
Worried European Union leaders reason to place illegal (1) ……………….. at the top of the agenda. Their inability to tackle the complex mix of economic migrants and asylum seekers converging on their (2) ……………….. is causing them major political headaches and making daily (3) ……………….. across Europe.
It is traditional for governments to spend millions of euros on reinforcing borders, and various methods of (4) ……………….., without simultaneously investing in solutions at the source of the problem. It makes a lot more sense to help (5) ………………… and the dispossessed at home, or close to home. Otherwise, desperate people will continue to take desperate measures, including resorting to human smugglers.
Much needs to be done in the EU itself, including the development of common asylum and (6) ………………... Many of those reaching Europe’s borders are genuine refugees. But many more are not. Strict and workable policies are needed to sort the economic migrants from the refugees.
Better (7) ……………….. of EU borders is fine, provided that refugees still have access to a fair (8) ………………... Highly trained (9) ……………….. will help insure that nobody is sent back to face persecution, (10) ……………….., torture and death.
Exercise 2.
Complete the sentences representing newspaper style with the nouns given below to make common collocations:
(a) diplomacy;
(b) headache;
(c) policies;
(d) elections;
(e) identity;
(f) stability;
(g) endorsement;
(h) measures;
(i) statement;
(j) fervor;
(k) mix;
(l) support.
1. It is sometimes very difficult to make up one’s mind about the euro. It is such a complex ……………….. of political and economic arguments.
2. Only the United Nations can bring peace and long-term ……………….. to the region.
3. The Scots and Welsh have a strong sense of national ……………….. and hate it when they are mistakenly referred to as English.
4. Opinion polls show overwhelming public ……………….. for the government’s actions, so they are unlikely to change policy now.
5. It is always a danger when a leader stirs the people up into a patriotic ………………...
6. The Prime Minister’s statement didn’t meet with the approval of his own party, but received the personal ……………….. of the US President.
7. The wave of strikes has caused the government a serious political ………………...
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8. Virtually all the attempts to persuade teenagers not to take drugs have proved unrealistic. We need some workable ……………….. to tackle the problem.
9. The government resorted to desperate ……………….. to avert an economic crisis.
10. The minister made an emotional public ……………….. in an attempt to end media speculation about her family life.
11. After twelve years of totalitarian rule, the president unexpectedly called multi-party ………………...
12. The border dispute can only be resolved by discussion and negotiation, not by gunboat ………………...
Exercise 3.
Read the following article from “USA Today” (December 11, 2006). Pick out words and word combinations that are typical of newspaper style. Suggest Russian equivalents to the vocabulary items you will find and classify them among the subgroups of political vocabulary mentioned in the introduction to this unit.
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