I think the attention and panic about the migrant floods washing over Europe are bigger than the actual problem. But it's understandable.
Things like the economic situation, the inherent problems in how the EU is constructed are quite nebulous and hard concepts to grapple with. No body or party has good, simple solutions to them either.
But migrants, that's something concrete! They're a problem we can see and do something about!
And there's always good old-fashioned xenophobia.
In Finland we voted an anti-immigrant party into the government.
I don't want us to become Sweden, but we weren't becoming Sweden anyhow.
Also, integration is a good idea.
There's media attention to the issue, but it seems much less than in other EU countries.
Now, to say how big of a problem it actually is would need accurate statistics and more analysis. Germany can probably handle the predicted 800.000 migrants. But as a rate of growth, that's not exactly promising. EU-wide, the picture is most likely different too.