An agreement has been reached among the interior ministers of the European Union regarding the welcome of 120,000 migrants. A majority vote was necessary to pass the European Commission’s plan.
Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic voted against the mechanism. Finland, where the far-right is part of the government, abstained.
Poland, previously reluctant, on the other hand, aligned itself with the positions of France, Germany, and the EU presidency.
The situation is far from resolved; it must be pragmatically stated that we are only at the beginning of a potential solution.
It is our duty to denounce the truly scandalous behavior of the leaders of the countries that opposed the plan in the name of alleged internal political reasons.
Their populism is a dark page in the history of European construction.
Historically, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been lands of emigration and not immigration since the end of the 19th century.
The paradox is that these countries, after more than half a century of confinement under Soviet rule, considering freedom of movement to be the greatest achievement of the 1989 revolutions, refuse to apply this same principle to non-Europeans.
More recently, between 200,000 to 250,000 Hungarians fled Soviet tanks in 1956, first finding refuge in Austria and then in the rest of Europe, without anyone contesting their welcome.
The same was true for Czechs and Slovaks after the invasion of August 1968 or for Poles after 1981, when repression descended upon the Solidarity movement.
Since 1989, nearly 1 million Poles, Slovaks, and Balts have arrived in Great Britain and Northern Europe.
Romania and Bulgaria have seen about 15% of their population move to the south of the EU.
Amnesia or the idea of solidarity that should remain a European value?
by Garibaldino
