What it is happening in Italy and in Europe in these days is a shame.
3279 immigrants died in 2014 in the Mediterranean Sea, and this year there are already 1754 victims. The 18th of April one only incident in the Sicilian Channel caused more than 700 victims.
And what is Europe doing?
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| Immigrants at the Milan Station (2015) |
The Governments are talking about rules, law and national competencies. In the meantime, today in some train stations in Italy (like in Milan and Rome), there are hundreds of immigrants that want to reach their families in the north of Europe but Schengen has been temporary suspended and they actually live in the stations.
Egoism seems the predominant feeling in these days all around Europe, when the topic is the immigration, as well as the Greek crisis or the social policies for the people with less opportunities.
In a very interesting article published on the Italian newspaper La Stampa, it was reported that 170 thousand immigrants "destibilized" Europe last year, but Turkey had to face to an immigration from Syria and Iraq of more than 2 million of people and Lebanon - a country of 4 million of inhabitants - hosts 2 millions of refugees.
Europe is the biggest economy in the world. Even in this difficult period, we should not forget that solidarity is one of the most important value of our common roots.
Should we leave people sleeping and living under the bridges or in the stations? Is this the Europe we want? Is this the spirit we want to pass on the new generations?
I don't.
In a very interesting article published on the Italian newspaper La Stampa, it was reported that 170 thousand immigrants "destibilized" Europe last year, but Turkey had to face to an immigration from Syria and Iraq of more than 2 million of people and Lebanon - a country of 4 million of inhabitants - hosts 2 millions of refugees.
Europe is the biggest economy in the world. Even in this difficult period, we should not forget that solidarity is one of the most important value of our common roots.
Should we leave people sleeping and living under the bridges or in the stations? Is this the Europe we want? Is this the spirit we want to pass on the new generations?
I don't.
How would you see European countries as stabilized eeconomically and prosperous if they started accepting all immigrants from around the world? America did and now they closed the boarders so tight you have to go through hell to get in - and that is a perspective of a polish student - not sb who tries to get a well-paid job in a developed country: think about Mexicans who just want a job to raise a family - the situation differs from the one near Europe in a terrestial way - they have to cross the dessert, people coming to Europe cross the waters (and the Mexican situation already got boring to the media - except for latino comedians).
ReplyDeleteThere already is a problem with getting a legal job for Europeans, peolpe coming in would have to learn the language and register and where would they live up to that moment? - in places offered by the european government and from whose money? most countries can barely help themselves and with the ongoing crisis it would be disasterous to distract themselves from the goal od meeting the budget. This is not the spirit that I want to pass to generations but spirit must be tamed with rationalism and facts - our government structures are corrupted, mostly misled and focus on the end of their own noses but if they cannot meet ends with the current social structure the 2 million immigration wave surely isn't going to help.