The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.
The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
So one fights the far-right by normalizing their politics i society, adapting their methods and bowing to their demands? Look at germany, it does not work like that!
The MEP’s have a job to represent their constituents from all areas of the community and offer something that fits everyone. What is the middle ground between open migration or no migration. There has to be a line of what countries are safe and what are not. Where does this sit in the scale of left/right?
I know this is an oversimplification and people shouldn’t fit into tickboxes. But the average person does not care for that. They care that they can’t afford housing, can’t get a school place. Telling them to stop caring about that and start having better ideologies will just drive them to vote for populists in secret.