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The «refugee crisis» highlights the deepness of the European Union crisis: not only an economic crisis, but a political, ideological and moral one. Torn as it is by national egoism, nationalistic impulses and the rise of extreme right-wing formations, the EU apparently lacks of a forward-looking strategy on migration policies. Because of its «emergency approach», the EU takes short-sighted measures, mostly «prohibitionist», which are often inconsistent and counterproductive. In many cases, such measures violate the most basic human rights (to emigrate, to flee, to life, to asylum) on which the same EU institutions are based. The agreement signed on 18 March 2016 between EU and Turkey is paradigmatic: according to the most recent report of the European Court itself, Turkey is in first place for violations of the European Convention on Human Rights. This agreement has authorized the mass deportation to Turkey of «irregular» Syrian refugees, including children, who arrived on Greek islands from March 20 onwards. In 2015 the repressive and prohibitionist policies of the EU cost the life of thousands of people (about 72,11% of the total of victims of redundancies at the global level). The disappeared are actually victims of EU policies. In fact the EU has helped to destabilize and to devastate large areas of the world with strategies characterized by neo-colonial plunder and exploitation, «humanitarian» interventions and other military interventions, without calculating the consequences in terms of forced mass migrations. There is a very close relationship, if not a vicious circle, between the «emergency approach», the militarization of political borders and the spread of the rhetoric of denial, which in Europe now turn into acts of open racism. |
