We cannot forget that the European Union is the result of the progressive imposition of democracy from the six founding countries to the other States of the continent.
On September 5, Lee Hockstader, who, after having been a member of the Washington Post editorial team, has been covering information on Europe since 2023 based in Paris, published an article with the title “Why has immigration become an issue?” so incendiary in Europe?”
These are the first words of that article: “immigration has become an impossible issue for Europe, a threat to liberal democracy, social stability and economic growth.”
It was, in part, a reflection on the elections in the Länder of Thuringia and Saxony, in the first of which Alternative for Germany had been the winner of the elections, but it was also in part a reflection on immigration as a whole. of the European Union. Reflection in which he recorded how immigration had become, or was becoming, an unmanageable issue for European democracies. Unmanageable in democratic terms. The rise of the extreme right in most of the member countries of the Union was the expression of a contradiction between the economic and social need for immigration as a consequence of the accelerated decline in the population in all European countries and the political non-acceptance of said immigration in most of these countries.
Without immigration, which has to go much further, the European Union is condemned to regression rather than economic stagnation. But the parties that seek to provide a receptive response to the increase in immigrants do not seem to be able to win the elections and form a government.
Since the article appeared on the WP on September 5, the problem has become more visible. To start with Spain, it is enough to remember that the PP spokesperson in the European Parliament stated a few days ago that the “call effect” caused by the lack of immigration policy of the Government chaired by Pedro Sánchez, represents a threat to the security of the Union. European.
But, if this statement by Dolors Montserrat can be considered an anecdote, the same cannot be said of the immigration policy of the Italian Government consisting of building detention centers for immigrants in countries that are not part of the European Union, to which they would be sent from Italy. The preparation by the Italian Government through a decree of a list of safe countries to build these immigrant detention centers is one more step in the direction that it had already undertaken with the construction of one in Albania, which has not passed the filter of the judicial control.
The alarming thing is that this policy has not only not been discarded outright as an aberration, but has been considered an “option worth studying” by Ursula von der Layen and a good number of leaders of the right-wing parties. and the European extreme right.
We have to be aware that, if this option, or something similar, ends up being imposed, we will be taking the first step towards the disintegration of the European Union.
Depending on the outcome of the elections in the United States on November 5, this option of deporting immigrants to internment camps built in countries outside the European Union may come to the forefront of the political agenda. The “massive exports” that Donald Trump has announced could not fail to have a considerable impact on Europe.
The application of a policy of this nature is not going to be easy and it is even possible that it will be a solution that will not be able to be imposed in practice, but, even so, the deleterious effect it could have on the political systems of the member countries of the European Union may be of such magnitude that its democratic nature will be difficult to sustain. And we cannot forget that the European Union is the result of the progressive imposition of democracy from the six founding countries to the other States of the continent. Without democracy, understood as it has been understood until now, the European Union would not have been established. Nor is it likely to survive. And that is what is going to be at stake in immigration policy.
We are warned.
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