I'm a bit shocked how this issue is down played in the comments here. There are good reasons for people to be frustrated and if looking at this as a system, you can influence it in the right direction by listening to people and prevent the social downwards spiral.

But there are banking bailout and massive cutbacks on social system which has direct effect on the European people. Yet nothing happened. There were some demonstrations and established parties might lost some votes but it's not comparable to the move to right we see right now.

So is the refugee crisis more dangerous to the European people's safety and prosperity? I highly doubt that. Yes, 1.2M is a big number. But that's like 1 refugee per >400 'natives'.

The reason why people are complaining and new right wing parties get established is because they are racist. And there are plenty of explanations for that, yet this is sometime that needs to be taken very seriously. And the worst thing we can do is just blaming politicians and ignoring how much suffering the new right wing causes.