Calais, a political dead end? – Reforme.net
Or rather in crises in the plural as the list is long of what flames on our “old” continent: strong diplomatic tensions between France and Italy on the subject of the Aquarius, as if Calais had moved on the transalpine border , as if Rome had replaced London; risk of implosion of the German government with the ultimatum posed to the Chancellor by the Minister of the Interior on the quotas of migrants; proposal to create a defense axis – and sad memory – between Germany, Austria and Italy. Each time, the same word: migrations. Each time, the same slogan: we must close the borders to new exiles. We have been saying this for months but by dint of not wanting to get around the basic problems, of letting everyone make do with the docking of boats or the paths of terrestrial exile, of having tied hand and foot with one more Turkish president. in addition to being autocratic, not being able to speak with one voice, the European boat is taking on water … When will there be a “Grenelle” on migration in Brussels? A summit in Europe to put all that annoys on the table? Yet these migratory issues – immense – seem to be the symptom of a much deeper and growing crisis. The European project no longer speaks to the majority of the populations. Is it, like Pierre Manent’s analysis in this issue, because politics has deserted the table in favor of economics? Is it because of the cohabitation, since enlargement, between countries with different standards of living and democratic traditions? Should we then rethink the Union and imagine circles, with a nucleus of very committed and voluntary States, beyond the single Franco-German duo? Only one has chosen is certain: in any union, one must know how to “re-choose”. https://youtu.be/GtbsiUhOvuA – Two years (already!) after the British referendum on Brexit, Europe is in crisis, as it seems, it has not been for a long time.