EU migration policies seen building blocks for "Fortress Europe"https://af.reuters.com/article/africaTech/idAFKBN1JY08D-OZATPQuote
Meanwhile the political mood in Europe is increasingly turning against migrants.
Italian new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s use of the hashtag #stoptheinvasion on Twitter would have been considered beyond the pale for a member of a serving EU government just a few years ago.
In 2015, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was widely criticised for contravening EU laws when he built a fence on his southern border.
But now his other idea - presented back in 2016 as “Africa hotspots” where the EU would handle all refugees and migrants in Africa before bringing over only those who win asylum - is back in the latest EU agreement, with only some revisions.
One thing EU leaders have succeeded in doing so far is preventing the collapse of the cherished Schengen travel zone that feeds jobs and businesses across the bloc by guaranteeing control-free movement of people and goods.
The threat to Schengen is real, however, as several countries including Austria, Germany and France have already introduced some emergency border checks since 2015.
The current discussions about the German-Austrian border - and Vienna’s threat to restrict its own border - shows how easily one country’s move could trigger a chain reaction.
Physically re-erecting dividing lines inside Europe could deal a mortal blow to what backers praise as the most successful peace project in Europe since World War Two, coming after the wounds caused by Britain’s vote to leave.
“If Schengen falls apart, this is it. There will no longer be an EU as we have known it,” said an EU official.
Now there is a lot of other crap in this article I don't understand (internal EU politics etc.), but the part I quoted sounds a lot like what's currently happening in the US. Namely, that people in the EU are getting fed up with this "silent invasion" by migrants.
It seems like some of the member states of the EU are starting a grass roots, Make Europe Great Again (MEGA), movement.
I think this may be a good thing for all concerned. These 3rd world countries have zero motivation to improve themselves, if all those who disagree are just allowed to migrate to 1st world countries in a non-merit based way.
It's also kind of nice to see at least some support of Trump like ideas coming from the EU, or at least parts of it.
This "Schengen" stuff in the EU (had to look it up) seems like it's mirroring a lot of the same crap that's going on in the U.S. as well. Namely, that some areas of the US are "for" this unlimited immigration crap, like say New York and California are.
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-countries-list/Maybe some of the more severe anti-Trump folks should take notice of this. Of the fact, that at least some of Trump's ideas seem to be happening elsewhere as well as here.
Keep in mind, that I don't really have any problem with LEGAL immigration in the US, and I feel like the same sentiment is shown by this latest development in the EU as well.