EU Murder

How the rise of racism, violence and death are an ‘acceptable’ price to pay in the Europe’s delusional fight against migration.

This article contains extracts from the author’s book DISPLACED. EUROPE AND THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS.

It has become commonplace to criticize Donald Trump and his delusional border wall. Indeed, what Trump is offering is not a solution to people’s fears about immigration, but a theatrical gesture — symbolic, sending a message of rejection, whilst hammering home the classic “us versus them” line.

The EU’s response to mass displacement on its periphery is similar, if not worse. This is the continent which has grown rich off the plunder and pillage of most of the rest of the world for centuries. It is also the continent which prides itself on respecting human rights, the rule of law and a commitment to global cooperation. As I write this, children are drowning in the Aegean Sea, whilst border guards along the Turkey-Bulgarian and Turkey-Greece border are shooting rubber bullets at traumatized families, most of whom have fled violence in Syria and Iraq. The United Nations has estimated that 80% of…