Rights and obligations for restoring solidarity in Europe

“While JM Barroso should immediately have put out the fire started by the two most […]

11/05/2011

“While JM Barroso should immediately have put out the fire started by the two most active European pyromaniacs of the day, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the Commission is stoking the flames by indirectly admitting himself that 20,000 Tunisian immigrants compared to 500 million Europeans could justify the temporary establishment of inner borders in Europe. Shameful, destructive for European integration, this one-upmanship must be the final argument to convince progressive Europeans to be sufficiently daring to take up the theme of immigration honestly…”

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