...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
members’ interior ministers have been meeting in Luxemburg to hash out a new, continent-wide asylum processing plan. The existing system reached its breaking point over the past decade.
Under an existing agreement, any asylum seeker’s port-of-entry country is tasked with processing their application. This has put an undue burden on southern European countries, such as Italia, Greece and Spain, which are closer to established migration routes.
In order to avoid a humanitarian crisis on Europe’s borders, Germany, Austria and Sweden voluntarily accepted over a million refugees — many escaping Syria’s civil war — in 2015. Other EU members, however, like the eastern European Visegrad group, have closed off their countries to non-European refugees.
A new system, currently being discussed, would make assistance to
To be passed, the plan would need a ’qualified majority’ — or the support of countries representing roughly two-thirds of the Union’s population.
What odds those countries that don’t want illegals will be happy to pay for someone else to take them in?
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, representing nearly a fifth of the European Union’s population, has called the proposal "very difficult for us," adding that, "I am fighting for us to have a Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
of open borders."
To proposed deal does not address the sources of conflict leading to mass migration, nor will it ease the EU’s strict outer border policy, which has led to the deaths of over 25,700
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...and Libya, in order to outsource the policing of the continent’s borders.
On June 4, at least 16
Europe’s fortress mentality has not stopped
The largest group outside of Ukrainians are Syrians, who filed 132,000 applications in 2022.
Roughly one million Syrian asylum-seekers and refugees live in the EU. Germany alone hosts around 59% of them. Across Europe, Syrians have usually been provided with international protection status. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
procedures tend to be long, which is why many Syrians have taken dangerous routes to reach the continent. Around 94,000 Syrians made their way to Europe illicitly in 2022, the EU says — more than double the number in 2021.