Georg Gassauer was chief operating officer at Train of Hope, Vienna and oversaw the transit of over 150,000 refugees through Vienna between August 2015 and January 2016. Currently, he is an independent researcher associated with Princeton University’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/georg-gassauer/rss en Laws & Policy Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:27:54 +0000 Georg Gassauer https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/24/the-problem-with-having-no-plan-b-if-e-u-deal-with-turkey-fails https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/03/24/the-problem-with-having-no-plan-b-if-e-u-deal-with-turkey-fails One year into the E.U.-Turkey refugee agreement, researcher Georg Gassauer examines the disconnect between European leaders’ reliance on statistics showing its success and the failures on the ground creating conditions for an even worse crisis were the deal to collapse.