Is the EU genuinely making a drastic U-turn on its migration policy? According to Politico, it is. EU lawmakers have just given the “green light” on reforms endorsing “new rules seeking to speed up the return of migrants who entered Europe without permission and to prevent these migrants from traveling to other countries within the EU.”
Lawmakers even came close to passing a separate amendment explicitly calling for the EU to finance border fences.
The “border fences” idea is an acknowledgement of the illegal entry crisis that has dragged on for years, with most migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa. The good news about the new EU reforms seems unlikely, however, given the EU’s history of robust support for open-door immigration policies. According to a Breitbart report, “legacy media outlets have attempted to portray the measures as the EU tightening its approach towards illegal immigration.”
Tom Vandendriessche, an MEP for the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, warns that there is more to the new reform than what the legacy media is stating as it tries to make it look as if the EU were tightening its loose immigration policies. Vandendriessche says that the new migrant pact will do just the opposite, by enabling “forced mass migration to occur within the continent.” Take, for example, the wording about the reforms in European Parliament news :
An annual “solidarity pool”, prepared by a new EU Relocation Coordinator and based on projected annual needs, will translate into pledges by the individual member states on how many people they will host (at least 80% of pledges) or capacity building measures provided (up to 20%). If the Commission determines these national pledges do not correspond to what is needed, it will (via so-called implementing acts) propose further relocations, to be distributed across EU countries according to a distribution reference key based on the population and the GDP of each member state.
Unlike the hopeful versions that Politico and other legacy media outlets are presenting, the European Parliament’s explanation amounts to a shifting around of migrants throughout the EU, under the direction of the EU Commission. The full ambiguous explanation can be read HERE. Vandendriessche asked:
Could it be possible that this pact is not a tightening [of border controls] at all, as citizens are told through the traditional media?
Vandendriessche described the new EU reform “as effectively making illegal immigration permissible within the union, while also taking away border controls from individual member states and making it easier for migrants to bring family members into Europe.”
People are being routinely played for fools by globalists.
In 2020, the European Commission president proposed new EU asylum rules to force member states to take migrants. Under Dublin agreement regulations, “asylum seekers must apply for asylum in the first European Union member state they enter,” but the EU began moving toward redistributing the migrants all over Europe. The new reforms appear to be the next stage of what started in 2020. The aim under that proposal of what European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called a “new strong solidarity mechanism” was to firmly establish and coordinate open doors all over Europe. It was a move to welcome as many economic Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East as wished to come. In essence, it was a more sophisticated means to legitimize illegal migration, in full accordance with the previously agreed-upon UN Migration Pact.
The most obvious example of the continued lack of will to stop illegal migration is the numerous promises that the UK government has made for years to control the ongoing invasion of Britain via the English Channel. Nothing has been done to date, and nothing likely will be done. Since 2015, the UK has paid France hundreds of millions of taxpayer money to stop boat migrants. But why not put adequate border control personnel, including a wall, as Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia and many others have done?
The UN Migration Pact supported and aggressively advanced full open-door policies as a “human right.” Recall also the demonization of countries such as Hungary and Poland for refusing to support it. Britain was among the globalist nations that endorsed the Pact. Any country which sought to block open doors was deemed “racist” and “unwelcoming.” Years ago, the EU even began legal action against Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic over migrant quotas.
At the height of the migration crisis in 2015, when over a million people swarmed into the EU illegally from the Middle East and Africa, support for open door policies continued. In 2016, the invasion peaked. A Pew Research Center analysis later “estimated that at least 3.9 million unauthorized immigrants – and possibly as many as 4.8 million – lived in Europe in 2017.”
Globalists dismissed anyone opposed to their agenda as “stupid populists” as they unscrupulously advanced their hateful us-versus-them propaganda. The issue became so heated by 2018 that the European Commission announced a plan to “bring an end to national sovereignty over finance with the creation of a ‘eurozone budget’ in order to kill off populist politics within the euro region.” By 2021, some countries started to come to their senses. Formal pleas from 12 member nations to help finance border walls went to the European Commission, but the Commission rejected them.
Globalists didn’t get the solidarity from member nations that they had anticipated, and this is key; they clearly were simply biding their time when faced with dissent among member nations and the dilemma of an awakening public. It recently emerged that Italy declared a state of emergency amid their ongoing, unsustainable migrant invasion from Africa.
Now out of the blue, amid discord in the EU over uncontrollable migration, comes the new EU pact to revise migration rules. Its convoluted presentation appears at best to be nothing more than an appeasement strategy to assuage their populations, and at worst, to deceive them. German AfD MEP Nicolaus Fest has “warned that the measures being pushed by the European Parliament would ‘import millions of migrants’ against the wishes of the vast majority of people on the continent.”
Few even knew that the EU was already spending billions of dollars to halt migration from Africa alone. As politicians continue to keep the public in the dark, frustration is rising, and people are starting to realize that the continued invasion of illegal economic migrants is unsustainable in their crumbling economies, which are cash-strapped from COVID mismanagement and governments doling out massive amounts to help Ukraine in its war with Russia.
John Allan says
‘But why not put install adequate border control personnel, including a wall, as Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia and many others have done?’
And WHERE, exactly, would the UK PUT THE WALL!?
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks for exposing them.
“Recall also the demonization of countries such as Hungary and Poland for refusing to support it.” I did as well and wonder what language they’re putting into this one to further punish these and other balkers. It’s like the US TikTok bill that set off alarm bells from various quarters with its censorship-for-all hidden intent.
As the just ousted host says, it’s never what they say it is.
tim gallagher says
I suspect that the mob at the EU will always be gutless, virtue signalling cowards and they will never endorse the type of tough measures that are necessary to stop the invasion of Europe. The EU condemnation of countries like Hungary for doing what needs to be done (ban Muslim invaders) to save Europe from destruction by the invading barbarians shows how hopeless the EU are.
Michael Copeland says
This is the same EU that announced a few years ago, “Europe needs 50 million Africans”.