One of the many worrisome aspects of the EU’s immigration crisis is the refusal of the countries from whence these economic migrants come to take them back upon request by EU members. It’s impossible to expel illegal immigrants if their own countries simply won’t take them in. More on this problem, and abortive attempts by the EU to pressure these “countries-of-origin” to change their minds, was reported in January: “EU ministers discuss how to better tackle migration, vow to speed up deportations,” by Dénes Albert, Remix News, January 31, 2023:
EU interior ministers met in Stockholm last Thursday [Jan. 26] discuss ways to increase the number of returns of irregular migrants to their countries of origin, including by further restricting the issuance of visas to nationals of “non-cooperative” countries.
It is clear that in an area without internal borders, we need a Europe-wide policy to deal with asylum and migration issues,” said Belgium’s State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) before the meeting.
The relevant ministers from national governments met for the first day of informal ministerial talks under the new Swedish EU presidency, which focused on asylum, migration, and home affairs.
For de Moor, it is a question of having “stronger borders, more solidarity between the member states, and a better European return policy, because the subject of return is crucial.
“We need to speak with one voice when addressing nationals of third countries who do not cooperate sufficiently with our return policy,” she insisted.
“We have a very low return rate”
“We see irregular arrivals increasing (…) Returning those who are denied asylum in Europe is a very important issue,” added Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.
Of the approximately 340,500 “return” decisions issued across Europe in 2021, just 21 percent were actually implemented, according to Eurostat….
That only 20% of those whom the EU countries wished to expel to their countries of origin actually were expelled, shows that something is very wrong with the EU’s policy. It simply has not gotten tough on those countries, even though there are many ways to pressure them, that haven’t yet been tried. They are discussed below. The EU has also sent decidedly mixed signals, hounding Greece in May over the alleged “illegal deportation of migrants.”
Currently, only one country, Gambia, is under sanction by the EU for “lack of cooperation.” Even then, the sanctions are lightweight: The conditions for granting a visa for the Schengen Area to Gambian nationals have been tightened a bit, and the fees for a visa have increased to €120 (from €80 on average). That kind of “pressure” is hardly noticeable..
The European Commission had also proposed restrictive visa measures against Iraq and Bangladesh in 2021. According to Commissioner Johansson, who visited Dhaka in November, the threat of sanctions has prompted Bangladesh to cooperate. EU heads of state and government had in December 2021 called for “all relevant European tools, including development aid, trade and visas” to be used as “levers” in migration matters….
Unlike The Gambia, Bangladesh agreed in 2022 to cooperate before any sanctions, however mild, could be imposed. We still don’t know how many Bangladeshi nationals have been accepted back after being expelled from the EU countries, or details about what kind of sanctions, involving “development aid, trade, and visas,” were threatened. But they might have included a ban on travel to the EU, by students, workers, and tourists from Bangladesh. A ban by the EU on importing major Bangladeshi exports, such as textiles, might also have been threatened.
These are not asylum seekers, but economic migrants. Their “movements within the Union” are prompted by the desire to move to the richer countries where welfare benefits are the most generous. Thus, for example, migrants who first land in Italy or Spain or the Balkans will try to move to such rich countries as Germany and Sweden, where a cornucopia of benefits are offered. One way to end this moving about Europe by economic migrants, in order to maximize their benefits, is to pass an EU law requiring migrants to remain in whatever country they first land in for a certain period – say, ten years – no matter how slim the benefits may be.
At least the EU has become sufficiently alarmed about the problem to hold a special meeting to discuss how best to persuade countries of origin to take back those of their citizens whom the countries of the EU wish to expel. That is one sign of sanity breaking out in Europe, after nearly two decades of immigration madness, in which tens of millions of Muslim migrants have either been allowed to enter the EU, or been born to Muslims who had previously been allowed in. Now the civilizational threat posed by so many Muslims, that such intrepid souls as Geert Wilders, Eric Zemmour, and Laurent Obertone, have written about, is beginning to be more widely understood. It is no longer forbidden to discuss this threat. And what has become obvious to many people who for too long had been simply silenced by fear of being tarred as “Islamophobic” needs to be endlessly repeated. It’s one sentence that everyone in the West should fully grasp and memorize: “The large-scale presence of Muslims in Europe has created a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for the indigenous Europeans and for other, non-Muslim, migrants, than would be the case without that large-scale Muslim presence.” Don’t leave home without it.
Wellington says
The exceedingly foolish and destructive EU should have never taken in Muslim immigrants in the first place. The directive should have been from the start a clarion statement to the effect that Muslim immigrants need to go to some other majority-Muslim nation, of which there are over fifty. What the EU “pulled” was an anti-Charles Martel “event” and now it’s coming back to bite it in the ass. This is what happens when massive ignorance and excessive sentimentality (some avarice and arrogance too) predominate over knowledge and reason.
The EU is pathetic. The ongoing destruction of Western Civilization stands as a sober testimony to its ongoing “legacy.”
Siddi Nasrani says
True, I think that the problem could be solved, by saying, round up all of the same nationality’s onto a helicopter transporter & drop the lot off in their homeland at night time.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Wellington, about how destructive the EU seems to be. I have thought for quite a while that, since Muslims are all aiming to impose barbaric islam on all non-Muslims, there is no way that Muslim countries are going to agree to take back their fellow Muslims who have invaded European and other countries. I agree with you that Muslims should have been sent to Muslim countries in the first place and not been allowed to invade non-Muslim countries. THere is now so much damage that needs to be undone in many western European countries.
Huapakechi says
moslem countries will not take in moslem refugees.
tim gallagher says
I am not surprised by that, Huapakechi, because I’m sure that the aim of Muslims is always to try spread islam and impose the barbaric garbage on all of us, so the Muslim countries would be always trying to send the Muslim invaders to non-Muslim countries. Our countries should follow Hungary and refuse to let Muslims into our countries and stop the invasion.
Violet says
Hear Hear!!!
Aum says
Because EU is not serious in tackling the issue.
Captain Iglo says
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/DT.ODA.ALLD.CD?locations=MA
According to the above link, Morocco received approximately € 1.000.000.000 development aid in 2021. Undoubtedly most of it from the EU. How about that for muscle? So why don’t they use that?
Captain Iglo says
That’s dollars, not euros, by the way. Here’s some more information from that site:
Turkey: approximately $ 1.000.000.000,–
Libya: $ 345.000,–
Algeria: $ 315.000,–
So you can actuallly also work it the other way around: give a ‘country’ such as Libya let’s say $ 650.000,– to keep their *** there: top it up to 1 billion. Meloni has tried that, by the way.
Fuzzy Bear says
‘Failed efforts’: what efforts?
Hide says
What this country should be doing is telling illegal immigrants if you’ve got no paperwork you will not be allowed in this country. It might stop them throwing their mobile phones and paperwork in the sea. And if they want to get the people out of hotels illegal immigrants if you’ve got no paperwork you will not be allowed in this country. It might stop them throwing their mobile phones and paperwork in the sea. And if they want to get the people out of hotels offer them, two months, five star hotel costs to go back home.
Captain Bligh says
Agree! No ID no status.
Alex Lund says
Put them all on a ship and ram the ship either in the Cogo or Somalia aground.
Problem solved.
OLD GUY says
Returning them to their country of origin is possible. You just have to have the balls to go it.