To mark its 70th anniversary, Secours Catholique-Caritas is organizing fraternal marches. This is an opportunity to showcase a dynamic solidarity network that is actively engaged in supporting the most vulnerable on a daily basis.
European countries are building walls on their borders to prevent refugees from finding asylum on their soil.
Migration is a part of human history, as people have often been forced to leave their homes to escape death or to fulfill the promises life offers to everyone.
That is why many can say: “My father was an immigrant.”
Today, migration is occurring on an unprecedented scale and unfortunately tends towards exponential growth.
In response to these large movements of people, Europe reacts with indifference and the temptation of building a fortress.
This is the trap effect.
The main political issue is managing migration flows: France has relocated barely 200 people out of a plan for 25,000!
By 2050, Europe will need 25 to 40 million foreigners to balance its working population. The solution is no longer at the nation-state level but at the continental level.
The European Union was built by turning its back on the past. It must learn and accept to think in geopolitical and moral terms, based on its long-term interests: that means engaging in strategies for the future and politically embracing the choice of a reasoned openness to the populations of its peripheries.
The future of the human condition is solidarity. And history is merely an eternal recurrence, as the philosopher Giambattista Vico said.
We must break down the walls that stifle us, starting with those of falsehood.
