How to manage the migrant crisis

Question 1

les circonstances

Answer 1

circumstances

Question 2

déchiré par la guerre

Answer 2

war-torn

Question 3

belliqueux

Answer 3

sabre-rattling

Question 4

se débrouiller, s’en sortir (seul)

Answer 4

to cope (alone)

Question 5

qui crée des divisions

Answer 5

divisive (policy, issue)

–> the divisive forces of right-wing nationalism

Question 6

se déchirer

Answer 6

to tear apart

the EU could tear itself apart

Question 7

une mêlée générale

Answer 7

a free-for-all

Question 8

Jordanie et Liban

Answer 8

Jordan and Lebanon

Question 9

traiter une demande (d’asile)

Answer 9

to process an application

Question 10

éloigné, lointain

Answer 10

remote

The prospect of ending Syria’s civil war is as remote as ever

Question 11

les négociations de paix

Answer 11

peace talks

Question 12

c’est scandaleux, l’aide pour la Syrie à été baissée au moment même au la guerre devenait des plus sanglante

Answer 12

Scandalously, aid for Syrians was cut in 2015 even as the war grew bloodier

Question 13

répartir

Answer 13

to sort
The next task is to require asylum-seekers to register and be sorted as close to home as possible, probably Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Question 14

en partie (parce que)

Answer 14

partly (because)

Question 15

le but

afin de, dans le but de

Answer 15

the aim

with the aim of

Question 16

demander, chercher qc,

Answer 16

to seek (SOUGHT, SOUGHT)

Question 17

véritable, authentique

Answer 17

bona fide (genuine)

Question 18

faire une offre

Answer 18

to bid (bid, bid, bidding)
a bid = une offre, une enchère

Question 19

faire un signe de la main

Answer 19

to wave (at someone) 
border officials wave asylum-seekers through and bid them safe travel to northern Europe

Question 20

perturbateur

Answer 20

disruptive

That approach is disruptive in the short term

Question 21

à court terme / sur le long terme

Answer 21

IN the short term / long run

Question 22

tant que

Answer 22

so long as = as long as

Question 23

incroyablement

Answer 23

astonishingly

Question 24

s’inquiéter

Answer 24

to fret (to worry) = se tracasser 
No one in America now frets that the boat people will not fit in.