Are the tides turning within the European Union?
While no common policy seemed possible to stop the waves of migrants, the Twenty-Seven now seem to want to take up the challenge.
Thursday evening, the meeting in Brussels would not have been, as always, the umpteenth and vain attempt to find common ground.
The supporters of an assumed firmness, long pointed out, are now joined by countries overwhelmed by asylum seekers.
The arrivals of illegal immigrants have jumped to more than 330,000 in 2022. And the war in Ukraine raises fears of an instrumentalization of migratory movements from the Middle East by the Russia of Vladimir Putin and the Belarus of his obligee, Alexander Lukashenko.
The satrap of Minsk has already exercised this blackmail in 2021. Not far from there, Turkey, affected by a violent earthquake, also regularly wields this weapon to raise the stakes of aid by several billion euros as…
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