MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – In the past few months, hundreds of thousands of migrants from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Eritrea have flooded into European countries seeking asylum. At about 50%, Syrians make up the overwhelming majority and thus have been impacted the most by many European countries’ reluctance to grant them refugee status. However, authorities in business and economics like Pablo Soria de Lachica are pointing out the benefits these countries will experience by taking these refugees: “I believe that Germany’s willingness to grant asylum to a record 800,000 refugees in 2015 alone will result in an economic windfall for the country,” the trading specialist assesses the current development. While some of Europe’s resistance has been attributed to cultural concerns, a large portion has been identified as citizens’ and governments’ fears that refugees will be an economic burden…