As American tourists know, much of Continental Europe has no internal borders. Under the Schengen Treaty, you can land at Rome and wander unhindered all the way to Copenhagen, just as one can from Miami to Boston. That’s because, thanks to the European Union, post-nationalist Continentals were assured by their elites that they were no longer Germans or Spaniards or Belgians but “Europeans.” Then came Greek bailouts, a wobbling Eurozone and the “Arab Spring,” and suddenly national frontiers are re-emerging from the mists of time:
For years I’ve been saying about Eutopia that “united they’ll fall, but divided a handful might stand a chance.” In the wake of Mediterranean insolvency and mass refugees from the flowering of Arab “democracy,” Continental governments seem to be very belatedly tiptoeing toward the same conclusion. (I wrote more about the long-term picture for Europe’s “border” here.) |
Friday, May 13, 2011
illegal immigration and a nation's right of self protection.
Labels:
Dissecting leftism,
illegal immigration
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