Two flights explain EU asylum policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Leavening brutality and cynicism with humanity is the best that advocates of asylum can hope for.
56% : Those attempting to hop into Lithuania are met with grumpy border guards, while the Belarusian athlete is welcomed as the platonic ideal of an applicant for asylum.
55% : A warm welcome for Ms Timanovskaya enforces the dangerous idea that asylum should be limited and based on character rather than circumstance -- that one must be personally worthy of protection, rather than guaranteed it by law.
46% : The fate of Flight 271 reveals a few things about the state of asylum in the .
43% : The 's ideological war over asylum between humanitarians and hardliners is over.
41% : In one sense, Ms Timanovskaya's red-carpet treatment represents the hypocrisy of the 's approach to asylum.
34% : 52 had a similarly controversial cargo: Krystina Timanovskaya, a Belarusian athlete on her way to claim asylum in Poland.

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