An issue that concerns several EU countries.
In Italy an anti immigrant stance by the Italian right wing Northern Leagues political party helped them sine more votes.:
"He is virulently anti-immigrant, has called for Roma camps to be razed and once referred to the euro as a “crime against humanity”. Matteo Salvini, the bombastic rightwing leader of Italy’s xenophobic Northern League, has even accused Pope Francis of doing a disservice to Catholics by promoting dialogue with Muslims.
None of this appears to be doing him any harm at the ballot box. On the contrary, in the divided and economically battered Italy of 2015, it seems to be a winning formula. The 42-year-old is riding high after his party made significant electoral gains in central and left-leaning parts of Italy, results that reflect growing opposition to the EU and concern over the thousands of migrants landing on Italy’s shores each week."
Quite an extreme view.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/northern-league-gains-italian-elections-matteo-salvini
Interesting article :
ReplyDeleteA Way Out of the Calais Jungle
"European leaders tend to have one of two responses to undocumented migrants: disdain or indifference. Neither attitude is helpful, as the grim crisis on the French side of the Channel makes clear, and both are unrealistic. Europe can do better.
As long as war, famine and corruption exist, people will try to escape them. For many of the Sudanese, Afghans, Syrians and others gathered in the Calais "jungle," even the most heavy-handed French gendarme is preferable to the (often torturous) official treatment they would face at home.
Occasionally, a single instance of suffering will spotlight the common plight, as happened Wednesday when a young Sudanese migrant was crushed and killed by a truck."
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-31/a-way-out-of-the-calais-jungle
Migrants who have smuggled themselves into Dover from Calais are being driven in private taxis to new homes up in London at taxpayer's expense, The Telegraph has learned.
ReplyDeleteTaxi drivers in the Kent port are being paid to drive the migrants to temporary accommodation 70 miles away in the capital, with fares of £150 ‘not unusual’, the authority confirmed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11779325/Kent-Council-pays-150-taxis-to-get-young-asylum-seekers-out-of-county-amid-foster-care-crisis.html