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"Mr President, so the European Union decision-makers decamped to Valletta. Not a bad destination for a wintry mid-November. But what about those Serbian refugees – 5 000 per day, so they estimate – I wonder how they feel? Deliverables? Quite frankly, nothing. At best, not much. Surprisingly, the European Union has to a certain degree my empathy, namely: constructed policies and plans but overtaken by events.
But, European Union, these were events of your own making. Surely the European Union’s own risk and outcome analysis should have identified that a plan effective for a small number of well-educated refugees might work, but for an absolute deluge of economic migrants and some genuine war-impacted refugees it is never going to work. Does anything emanating from the Valletta event change or address what is happening? It does not. Do the carefully-crafted words make it any less likely the individuals will avoid hazardous, death-enhancing journeys for an economic future in the European Union? It does not.
The European Union promises to address root causes and fails miserably. Words, words and more words, as usual – in fact, three pages and 2 000 words of nonsensical doublespeak – lots of acknowledgments, recognitions and words like that. Would it not be nice – and honest with our citizens – if, for once, the European Union would admit failure, stop the sticking-plaster approach and definitively halt the people movement and pan—European flow? Yes, it requires a proper rethink, but anything else is merely perpetuating the problem, the outcome and, ultimately, the terminal fractures in the European Union concept, and the latter point is the only one I agree with."@en1
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