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The Twenty-Seven and the European Parliament adopted the Pact on Immigration and Asylum on Wednesday. NGOs denounce “a poorly designed, costly and cruel system.”
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill stated that “an iron curtain had fallen over Europe” and that the communist world wanted to isolate itself from the democratic West. In a reversal of history, it is now the turn of the democracies of the European Union to complete the construction of an “Iron Curtain” stretching from Utsjoki in Finland to Larnaca in Cyprus and across the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea. But this time it is not about preventing European citizens from leaving the country, but about preventing foreigners from entering an Eldorado of peace and prosperity. This Fortress Europe is being built by the pact on immigration and asylum that the negotiators of the 27 and the European Parliament adopted on Wednesday morning after four years of difficult negotiations. Human rights NGOs are not wrong: they denounce “a poorly designed, costly and cruel system” that limits “access to asylum and the rights of those seeking protection.”
This pact is indeed an ideological victory for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, but also for