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The problem is now and it is in Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-to-take-more-refugees-as-cameron-bows-to-pressure-after-more-than-100000-back-our-campaign-10485195.html Britain to take more refugees as Cameron bows to pressure David Cameron bows to pressure   Cameron "bows to pressure" and is expected to announce that Britain will accept more than a thousand refugees from UNHCR camps on the border of Syria. A "knee jerk" reaction forced upon him by public and political pressure, to a problem he should have been addressing for months. Even then, Cameron leaps to the wrong conclusion either by accident or more probably design, and fails to recognise the reality.    The refugees in the UNHCR camps on the borders of Syria, although not l iving in the lap of luxury, have the basic necessities of food, shelter, water, sanitation and medical care provided by the UN and other voluntary organisations.  Refugees wait to board a train at Budapest ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not the only reason.

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/28/sarajevo-franz-ferdinand-first-world-war?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position4 Sarajevo: city commemorates end to 'a century of conflict', but divisions still run deep Archduke and his wife  a few minutes before the assassination The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, did not start the First World war. The war  would have taken place sooner or later, even if Princip had not fired the fatal bullets. In fact the assassination may not have taken place at all had the driver taken the correct route and had not been ordered to stop and reverse right opposite to where Princip was standing, following the first failed attempt by the other conspirators earlier that day. Chance hangs on such slender threads. Gavrilo Princip The prime cause of the Great War was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its determination to attack Se...