EU immigration policy a dead-end failed policy

 

Statement of Georgos Loucaides, AKEL C.C. Spokesperson

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 24th August 2015, Nicosia

The tragic figures of thousands of refugees, who are being prevented from passing through FYROM to seek asylum in the richer countries of the North, also complement the tragic images today of the refugees who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.

Faced with the European Union’s dead-end and completely failed immigration policy, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker stated that “this is not the Europe in which I want to live in.” Now that Mr. Juncker has also discovered how far from the official declarations about “solidarity” the European Union is, he has but as President of the European Commission to act for the complete reorientation of EU immigration policy in order to focus on people and not the various multifaceted interests.

For that reason, it is essential that the European institutions proceed to make a profound self-criticism for their enormous responsibilities with regards the tolerance and support they have shown towards imperialist interventions that have massacred entire peoples and for having supported and encouraged bloodthirsty terrorist organizations like ISIS in Syria.

Self-criticism must also go hand-in-hand with the European Union’s reorientation of its foreign, security and neighborhood policy so that it serves peace and the prosperity of the peoples and not selfish national and business interests.