[Crimson Dynamo]

It’s been proven a myth that you can have strong borders without willing the means

It is tough leading a shaky coalition government, following poor election results, and with your personal support dwindling.
Forced by your own ministers into compromises you do not believe in,
and reduced to proposing policies that will be rejected by other EU member states, it can be embarrassing.

Yet Angela Merkel fights on as Germany’s Chancellor.

Europe’s migration crisis – sparked by Merkel’s government three years ago – has quickened the populist advance across the continent.
The Hungarian government is busy vilifying immigrants and minorities.
The Italian Prime Minister talks about drawing up lists of Romany gypsies.
For the first time since the Second World War, Nazis sit in Germany’s Reichstag.
And even in the great liberal victory won by Emmanuel Macron, one third of the electorate voted for the French National Front.

Last week, more than 500 migrants arrived in Greece, nearly 900 reached Italy, and almost 1,200 arrived in Spain.
And the authorities must now house, educate and integrate the many people who reached Europe in the last three years.
By 2020 the German government will have spent an estimated £74 billion dealing with the domestic costs of the crisis.

To maintain social cohesion, you need to control immigration.
To control immigration, you need strong borders.
And to have strong borders, you need to be prepared to adopt tough policies.

What good does encouraging migrants to undertake dangerous boat journeys do?

The UN says about 10,000 people have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean since 2016.

What about putting people’s lives into the hands of criminal gangs? EU data says many migrants have fled Syria,
but others come from countries including Albania, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan and Vietnam.
Many are economic migrants who have reached Europe aided by people traffickers.

And why should we continue an asylum model that favours the strong over the weak, the young over the old, and men over women?
Three quarters of asylum seekers in Britain are men and the majority are in their early twenties. Too often, with today’s system,
the vulnerable get left behind.


If the migration crisis taught us anything, it is that virtue signaling is not a policy: the only policy with virtue is one that works.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...-europe-needs/


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