Michel opens door to EU funding for border walls

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  1. At long fuckin’ last!!! There should be a safety installation alongside entire length of Russian/Belarussian border with the EU. Since they cannot behave like a civilized neighbor they should be cut the fuck off from the rest of Europe.

  2. Slowly slowly, even Bruxells understands that you cannot have a Union without borders.

    Excellent first step.

  3. Even this statement existing is indicative of the shifting Overton’s window on immigration and asylum in Europe. The older rules and conventions signed in the mid 20th century may not survive this decade.

  4. Nope, thanks. Not the EU I want.

    Our strongest defense and weapon is the common market: let’s help least developed Countries with EBA agreements for the long term while sanction Countries which do not cooperate like Belarus in the short term.

  5. A good step. We also need reform of the refugee treaties to prevent the Western hypocrisy of only granting human rights in location which we then make as hard as possible to reach. If we build a wall, we should also help refugees in their region and not here.

    And as you see in the article, getting EU funds to build a wall while pushing back migrants (the very purpose of the wall) is not allowed. So the EU-funded wall is pointless without reform of our outdated refugee treaties.

  6. Michel is a first name too in French speaking countries, I spent a few seconds thinking « who the fuck is this Michel guy? » before realizing it was Charles Michel.

    It’s as if you wrote a title saying « Gary opens door to EU funding for border walls ».

  7. Because walls have worked so well wherever they were built.

    Ah, hang on, is this intended to cut ecosystems and stop animal migrations? Then yes, sure, good idea.

  8. It’s interesting how walls and electrified fences with alarms were keeping people inside the Warsaw Pact nations. And as the Soviet Union collapsed, so did the fences.

    And now they are will re-appear but on the opposite side, and to keep people out.

    The border of life quality has moved east. And so it’s also interesting why and where it’s stopped. China and Singapore have authoritarian leaders too, but at least they are competent.

  9. Why don’t all the xenophobic and racist countries fund their wall together and let the others focus on more important things?

  10. UK wants to get control of it’s borders…bad, downvotes a plenty.

    EU wants to get control of it’s borders…96% upvotes, nothing but supporting posts all with dozens of upvotes.

    At least the UK didn’t want to build a Trump Wall.

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