摘要：Nowadays, one of the major concerns of the EU leaders is how to cope with the large inflowsof refugees that are coming from the Arab region, because of the prolonged conflicts and civil wars. Whilesome EU leaders consider that this is a humanitarian crisis and the member states should act accordingly,others consider that these people are migrants and not refugees. From the economic perspective, the opinionsare also divided. Some analysts see this large influx of refugees as an opportunity for the economic and socialenvironment, while others consider that the refugees can negatively influence the well-being of the hostcountries. In the present paper we investigate the impact of the refugees’ inflows on the economic growth anddevelopment of the EU countries. In order to reach this purpose, our arguments are based on amultidisciplinary analysis of the specialised literature and of the empirical investigations
关键词：refugees; migration; Arab region; EU states; economic growth
