[ April 19, 2024 ]
A meeting of European Union minds nearly devolved into a shouting match as the organization’s own migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, outright accused the European Council president, Donald Tusk, of advocating “anti-European” refugee resettlement policies.
The fact the fiery remarks came from the EU’s own migration top chief only underscores how dramatic the demographic shift in Europe has been in recent times.
This isn’t the first time Avramopoulos has spoken critically of the EU’s open border welcome to refugees.
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In October, he said this:
But his remarks before the EU body were fiery nonetheless.
The Express has the story:
The European Union descended into bitter in-fighting yesterday after its own Migration Commissioner attacked the bloc’s policy on relocating refugees as “anti-European”.
European Union member states were heavily divided over how to replace or even reform the bloc’s “Dublin regulation” – where the country in which an asylum seeker arrives is responsible for them – and whether or not to introduce a mandatory relocation system for those granted protection.
Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos launched an attack on European Council’s President Donald Tusk’s plans to relocate refugees as “anti-European” and exposes the deep divisions within the EU as to how to deal with the fallout from the aftermath of the 2015 migration crisis.
Mr Tusk sent a note to all the EU leaders which stated: “Only member states are able to tackle the migration crisis effectively. The EU’s role is to offer its full support in all possible ways,” adding “the issue of mandatory quotas has proven to be highly divisive and the approach has turned out to be ineffective.”
Several countries reacted angrily to the comments and his implication that the primary responsibility for the refugees should fall on the frontline countries such as Italy, Spain and Greece.
Other countries – Germany and Sweden – were also critical of Mr Tusk’s letter.
Mr Avramopoulos, speaking at a European Parliament news conference said: “My position is very clear.
“The paper prepared by President Tusk is unacceptable. It is anti-European, and it ignores all the work we have done during the past years and we’ve done this work together.
“This paper is undermining one of the main pillars of the European project, the principle of solidarity.
“Europe without solidarity cannot exist.
“Our success in managing migration cannot be attributed to individual member states. These are European successes that are the results … of our joint actions, of our joint efforts, of the European Union institutions, its agencies and all members states.”
One Council official told Politico: “They need to sit down, look each other in the eyes and discuss what are we going to do about this, because it’s not going to go away.
“The point of having these political discussions without conclusions is exactly to confront the difficult issues. The intention is that that eventually will help unblock the deadlocks in the Council. That’s the very idea of the leaders’ agenda.”
Mr Tusk was forced into a humiliating climbdown later in the day due to the pressure and issued a revised note which called for the EU institutions to work together with individual countries over migration issues.
Mr Tusk wrote: “The EU can only tackle illegal migration effectively with the full involvement of Member States and by the coordinated use of EU and Member States means and instruments.
No Member State can deal with this common challenge on its own, but decisive action by lead Member States, backed by the EU and assistance from other Member States, has proven to be effective.”
However, the new paper still declared the mandatory relocation system a failure.
It stated: “The issue of mandatory quotas has proven to be highly divisive and the approach has turned out to be ineffective.”
A Council official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “Is it ineffective? Yes: relocation does not solve the migration crisis, it does not reduce the number of illegal migrants arriving in Europe.”
Should the mandatory quotas policy be dropped then this could lead to a confrontation with the European Parliament, which has an equal say over the EU’s asylum policy.
The Parliament’s position includes a mandatory allocation system that would apply at all times, not just when thresholds are breached as suggested by the Commission, and would oblige countries to take a set number of asylum seekers based on ratio calculated on the basis of GDP and population size.
If a country refuses to participate in the system, MEPs want that country to lose access to EU funds.
Jean-Claude Juncker’s second-in-command, Frans Timmermans, raged: “I firmly disagree with the statement that relocation as an emergency response has been ineffective.
“Migration is an issue that will stay with us for generations and we have to be possible for a next crisis. All building blocks of our comprehensive approach are needed. Take one brick out and the whole edifice crumbles. Temporary borders may become permanent with lasting damage.”
Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikstrom said: “This is a very good example of very bad European leadership.
“This is one of the worst examples of European leadership I have seen in recent years.”
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24 Comments
6 years ago
No schidt Sherlock, what was your first clue that european refugees, migrants, colonists are out numbered 10,000 to 1 by muslims from everywhere? How is that a problem? You wanted multiculturalism, you’ve got it, now sit down and shut up, enjoy your new diversified islamic culture.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
They shall reap what they sow
6 years ago
The sound track for that vid was pure EU “blue sky” wishful thinking, “who wants to stop people from traveling to other member countries to work” ?
Those in the know are not fooled. If skilled workers can pass through several countries for a 1000 miles without checks – so can muslim terrorists. National borders are the responsibility of national governments, and they answer to their own people, the electorate.
The “open borders” concept was sold to people{ who had no vote on it} on the understanding external borders would be secure. To meet the demands of the UN and spirit of the Kalergi plan the external borders are porous.
The issue of what to do to “help” the frontier states of Greece, Italy and Spain is completely missing the point, naval forces {of which there are plenty} were supposed to stop and turn around illegal economic migrants, sending them back, but THAT was before Merkel skipped taking her tablets and went all progressive.
The only two fast cutters from the British border force spent 2 years cruising up and down the Med migrant routes picking up wetbacks and plopping them ashore while the English channel from Dover to Falmouth was left totally unguarded and exposed to the efforts of the people traffickers in France. Migrants were landing on our south coast beaches over a 40 mile front from rubber pump ups.
The shear incompetence of the Commission boggles, the “Parliament” is a rubber stamp fake assembly, the problems of refusal to redistribute are wholly understandable, the answers lie in more democracy at national level not less.
But for the EU five unelected “Presidents”, that’s the problem. The people are very much “off message”.
6 years ago
Aren’t there some deserted islands available for refugee relocation?
6 years ago
Reply to
rambler
I understand that the bottom of the Marianas Trench is open for relocation. However, they are not to be allowed landfall in Saipan, Rota, or Tinian. And, don’t they dare to seek shelter in the Northern Islands .. Goat Island is sacrosanct … Those goats are for hunting … not for moslems to fellate.
6 years ago
Reply to
rambler
Not just islands, we can give them whole continents: The Arctic and the Antarctic are available? Do those continents have welfare? No, because that would require a working White population to be taxed to death to provide free everything for the Africans and Asians.
6 years ago
Reply to
SFTOBEY
Can we put the beggars on rafts and let them float around in the Arctic Sea looking for a White person to save them?
6 years ago
TRANSLATION
“Resettlement” = Plantation
6 years ago
Dictatorship is a form of government in which a country or a group of countries is ruled by one person (a dictator) or by a polity, and power (social and political) is exercised through various mechanisms to ensure that the entity’s power remains strong
6 years ago
The utopian idea of
OPENESS, nO BORDERS and TOLERANCE is a fantasy that has turned into a nightmare.
6 years ago
Can ANYONE seriously imagine, the U.S. or any European country at war with Hitler, taking in NAZIS as “refugees” and “migrants” as we bomb their country?
Or how about taking in the Japanese after they bomber is at Pearl Harbor as “refugees” and “migrants” while at war with Japan?
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yes, you usually don’t “harbor the enemy” but these are strange times and the governments seem to do the exact opposite of logical or rational thinking.
6 years ago
Tusk se trompe large car le commissaire est originaire du sud d’Europe qui a une vision à l’opposé et pour cause , Tusk est un polonais et comme tous ces pays du nord-Est de l’Europe sont intéressés par leur petite cuisine à prendre et de ne rien donner!! Or les valeurs de l’union européenne sont celles de l’Europe de l’Ouest (France,…Italie,Grèce,…). l’immigration pourrait être le pourquoi de L’Exit ,de plusieurs pays européens. à l’instar de la Hongrie, Pologne…comme le BREXIT . Donc , l’union européenne n’est pas encore mûre pour un ordre , mais il s’agit d’un affrontement et des frappes en dessous de Bruxelles ,et donc un tiraillement des deux pôles de l’union européenne. les pays de l’Est ont une vue à l’américaine et un soif de joindre et de construire un pôle à l’américaine et les pays de l’Ouest sont pour le vieux monde et donc pas de participation vers l’Amérique de Trump,. Tous les pays de l’Est,avant 1989, leurs citoyens rêvaient de venir à Paris, c’étaient des immigrés et maintenant ,ils veulent fermer leurs frontières car celte immigration leur rappelle leur histoire sombre et obscure, alors que l’union européenne et sans quota ,peut accueillir tous les immigrés du monde ; aux USA , ces immigrés ont dépassés les 12 millions d’immigrés. Et puis c’est l’immigré qui décide de sa destination et non les Etats à l’obliger de rester ,malgré eux,ou de les provoquer par toutes sortes de moyens ,y compris les spy caméras dans les foyers des immigrés à limiter leur degré de liberté et aucune juridiction ne peut rendre justice en faisant la lumière sur les coups bas de Tusk, Orban…
6 years ago
Tusk se trompe large car le commissaire est originaire du sud d’Europe qui a une vision à l’opposé et pour cause , Tusk est un polonais et comme tous ces pays du nord-Est de l’Europe sont intéressés par leur petite cuisine à prendre et de ne rien donner!! Or les valeurs de l’union européenne sont celles de l’Europe de l’Ouest (France,…Italie,Grèce,…). l’immigration pourrait être le pourquoi de L’Exit ,de plusieurs pays européens. à l’instar de la Hongrie, Pologne…comme le BREXIT . Donc , l’union européenne n’est pas encore mûre pour un ordre , mais il s’agit d’un affrontement et des frappes en dessous de Bruxelles ,et donc un tiraillement des deux pôles de l’union européenne. les pays de l’Est ont une vue à l’américaine et un soif de joindre et de construire un pôle à l’américaine et les pays de l’Ouest sont pour le vieux monde et donc pas de participation vers l’Amérique de Trump,. Tous les pays de l’Est,avant 1989, leurs citoyens rêvaient de venir à Paris, c’étaient des immigrés et maintenant ,ils veulent fermer leurs frontières car celte immigration leur rappelle leur histoire sombre et obscure, alors que l’union européenne et sans quota ,peut accueillir tous les immigrés du monde ; aux USA , ces immigrés ont dépassés les 12 millions d’immigrés. Et puis c’est l’immigré qui décide de sa destination et non les Etats à l’obliger de rester ,malgré eux,ou de les provoquer par toutes sortes de moyens ,y compris les spy caméras dans les foyers des immigrés à limiter leur degré de liberté et aucune juridiction ne peut rendre justice en faisant la lumière sur les coups bas de Tusk, Orban…
6 years ago
““Migration is an issue that will stay with us for generations….” says the Junck man. Really? How many generations of REAL Europeans will there be left after migrants and Muslims become the demographic majority? Migrants and Muslims breed like rabbits, intentionally and because they’re subsidized by the various welfare states without ever having paid into them over a lifetime.
6 years ago
Kick all the dirty non-Europeans out of Europe. Make being a non-European in Europe a summary capital offense. Sterilize and deport all non-Europeans back to Africa and Asia.
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6 years ago
And they aren’t looking to the future generations. What kind of future homeland are they leaving their own Euro offspring? Are they mad? Is being PC that mind numbing?
6 years ago
This is not a “migration crisis”: it is a trafficking-crisis.
