The Syrian refugees trapped in Europe’s bureaucratic maze

The Syrian refugees trapped in Europe’s bureaucratic maze

Nawar anxiously drums his fingers against his Syrian passport as the car drives up the Damascus road away from the Syrian capital, past the burnt billboards bearing Assad's portrait. "It's not safe for me. If I go back to my hometown, after the massacre, I know I will be killed, I know it." His bleak words are a sharp contrast to the Arabic pop music on the radio.  An estimated 6.7 million Syrians were forced to flee nearly 14 years of civil war…