Conduct a web search, and investigate current solutions being used by the EU. IT HAS TO BE ORIGINAL!!!

1. Buying an island to house the refugees where an Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has put forward his own proposal of buying a Mediterranean island to allow refugees a temporary shelter until a longer-term solution is found.  

2. Sharing 160,000 asylum seekers around Europe. Jean-Claude Juncker a European Commission president, is working on plans to redistribute 160,000 refugees who arrive in Italy, Greece and Hungary, forcing countries to take in migrants even if they do not agree.

3. Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations' aid chief, has urged wealthy countries to increase how much they give in international aid so that refugees are not forced to seek safety in Europe.

4. Germany has opened its doors, with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, saying all Syrian asylum seekers are welcome to remain in Germany. This has seen the number of asylum applications received by Germany from soar

according to classical republican political theory, which democratic republics would function best?

a.   small republics, with people who had similar interests

b.   large republics, with people who had competing interests

c.   republics made up entirely of landowners

d.   republics made up entirely of servants