The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is a first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.
vows by France and Germany to rebuff migrants who arrive by sea on Italian shores, and in defiance of European Union asylum system rules, head northward to try to find jobs or relatives in those and other northern countries
This is EU: united to share benefits, when catastrophes happen each one is left on its own. Afterwards, they wonder why there are so many eurosceptics. When Italy collapses (because it certainly will) they’ll be ready to buy everything low cost.
This is the kind of narrow minded, uninformed point of view upon which all populists thrive.
“The immigrants will make the country collapse! Vote for me! I’ll keep all those blacks away!”.
No, 70k people will not cause a country of 65 million people, the 8th economy in the world, to collapse.
Incompetent governments will. As well as outdated economic policies, lack of innovation, excessive fiscal pressure and whatnot.
The footprint of a bunch of people who lives on 10 Euro a day isn’t even a rounding error. Inflating their significance and supporting the ignorance of the subject is what brings right wingers into power.
Thing is, just because you CAN endure something, does not mean that you HAVE to endure it. These illegals misbehave in public in unacceptable ways and so people’s votes shift to the right.
I still don’t get why we don’t just support these MILLIONS of working-age men to turn their own countries into something better and instead take in millions after millions for no fucking reason
Totally agree… the shift this is producing in the public opinion is enormous and will have brutal consequences for the most fragile layers of the population
This is EU: united to share benefits, when catastrophes happen each one is left on its own. Afterwards, they wonder why there are so many eurosceptics. When Italy collapses (because it certainly will) they’ll be ready to buy everything low cost.
This is the kind of narrow minded, uninformed point of view upon which all populists thrive.
“The immigrants will make the country collapse! Vote for me! I’ll keep all those blacks away!”.
No, 70k people will not cause a country of 65 million people, the 8th economy in the world, to collapse.
Incompetent governments will. As well as outdated economic policies, lack of innovation, excessive fiscal pressure and whatnot.
The footprint of a bunch of people who lives on 10 Euro a day isn’t even a rounding error. Inflating their significance and supporting the ignorance of the subject is what brings right wingers into power.
Thing is, just because you CAN endure something, does not mean that you HAVE to endure it. These illegals misbehave in public in unacceptable ways and so people’s votes shift to the right. I still don’t get why we don’t just support these MILLIONS of working-age men to turn their own countries into something better and instead take in millions after millions for no fucking reason
Totally agree… the shift this is producing in the public opinion is enormous and will have brutal consequences for the most fragile layers of the population