Migrant Meltdown Gives Rise to Populist Movement in Europe
Germany was once known as Europe’s welcome mat for refugees, but times have changed and these countries are being overrun by migrants
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As we have forecast for well over a decade, as a result of a refugee crisis, there will be growing populist movements among European and North American nations. And with the outbreak of the COVID War—we had forecast anti-vax, anti-lockdown, anti-tax, anti-immigration, and anti-establishment political parties will grow stronger as economies decline and nations are unable and unwilling to take in refugees that are fleeing their nations.
Besides the wars that are forcing people to leave their homeland, as we have greatly detailed in the economic sections of The Trends Journal, the soaring U.S. dollar has done great damage to emerging markets whose debt is dollar-based. Thus, the stronger the dollar, which has risen because of the high U.S. interest rates, the deeper other currencies fall and the more it costs them to service their debt which is dollar-based.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: What has been totally ignored in the mainstream media and by governments that do not want refugees to flood into their nation, is the question: Why aren’t the people who are leaving their nations not fighting back against their government to bring freedom and democracy and instead leaving their countries in the hopes of having a better life somewhere else?
GERMANY: Berlin has seen a dramatic shift vis-à-vis immigration as political anti-immigration political parties, namely the Alternative for Germany Party, or AfD, saw recent political gains in June when it won its first district council election in the East German town of Sonneberg.
Germany was once known as Europe’s welcome mat for refugees, but times have changed and these countries are being overrun by migrants.
Gaddafi once warned: “Now listen, you people of Nato. You’re bombing a wall that stood in the way of African migration to Europe and in the way of Al Qaeda terrorists. This wall was Libya. You’re breaking it.”
Reuters noted that Germany was known for its open-door policy in 2015, but the “mood has soured” and today parties “across the political spectrum are rushing to outbid one another on ways to curb irregular migration—ranging from cutting benefits to capping the number of people granted asylum.”
“The number of refugees trying to get to Germany is too high at the moment,” Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, said, according to Reuters. “This cannot go on.”
The report, citing migration experts, said the country hit a “tipping point” in 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sending about one million Ukrainians fleeing to safe harbor in Germany.
Frustrations among Germans are growing.
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, told the AP that these asylum seekers “sit at the doctor’s and get their teeth redone, and the German citizens next door can’t get appointments.”
More than 220,000 people applied for asylum in Germany from January to August, the Associated Press reported. About 240,000 people applied all of last year.
TRENDPOST: The AfD has forced the conversation in Germany and is the latest example of how establishment political parties in Europe will face continued pressure from populist movements.
These movements are often disparaged in the media and their members have been attacked.
Tino Chrupalla, the co-chair of the party, collapsed last week at a rally after an alleged incident involving a syringe.
Chrupalla complained of pain in his upper arm after meeting with the public and “was taken to the clinic in Ingolstadt for medical care,” said German prosecutors. “A superficial redness or swelling was detected. Any additional tests that have been conducted so far have been within normal limits.”
RT, the Russian news outlet, reported that while the Chrupalla incident is notable, attacks on AfD members and their families are not.
SLOVAKIA: European countries are beginning to see the political dangers that come with a major increase in migrants who are seen as a drain on state resources and a potential security threat that can be seized upon during campaigns.
The Trends Journal reported last week on the election win of Robert Fico’s populist SMER party in Slovakia.
Fico, the two-time former prime minister in Slovakia, framed his party’s movement in opposition to pumping Ukraine with more weapons and its lax border policy.
Fico said a week before the election that the migrant crisis was “outrageous and unacceptable.”
Fico’s message struck a chord with voters in the country who worry about their own futures and the treatment that the poor already in the country receive.
“In the past year the mood has changed here,” Ján Skyba, the former mayor of Choňkovce, a town in eastern Slovakia, told The Financial Times. “We’re still happy to help the poorer Ukrainians, but not the rich ones who are driving cars that you can’t even find in Slovakia.”
The paper reported that about half of those who live in the city voted for the populist SMER party, which has spoken out strongly in opposition to open borders.
“There is deep resentment among our citizens about the state’s generosity towards Ukraine compared to the neglect shown by successive governments in Bratislava towards the inhabitants of Slovakia’s poorer eastern areas,” Skyba said.
Like others countered in Europe, Slovakia has begun enforcing tougher border rules and has set up new checkpoints with Hungary in hopes to stem the flow of new migrants. The Associated Press reported that the move is a “departure from the ease of travel long afforded to members of Europe’s visa-free Schengen area.”
Slovakia has been slammed with a major jump in migrants traveling into the country from northern Africa, Afghanistan, and Syria. The AP, citing data from Bratislava, reported that the country registered 39,688 migrants from January to 1 October, which represents an 11-fold increase from 2022. (The border police detained 17,529 foreigners in the first seven months of this year, according to Balkan Insight, which is an increase of 15,611 from the same time period in 2022.)
The World Bank’s 2023 development report said there are 184 million migrants in the world and that number is expected to increase.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal forecast the migration crisis in Europe because it was obvious to anyone who has a brain larger than a pea. The COVID-19 war, compounded by trillions pumped into the U.S. economy, and Europe’s sanction war with Russia means the world’s poorest countries will only get poorer, thus its people will want to escape.
We’ve already seen significant gains across Europe for political parties considered to be anti-immigrant. Marine Le Pen of France saw her highest level of support when she was defeated by Emmanuel Macron in April. A few months later, Sweden saw the rise of the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party that secured 20.5 percent of the vote.
U.K., ITALY: Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, and Giorgia Meloni penned an op-ed last week urging fellow European countries to come together to solve the immigration crisis.
The two politicians worked to put migration on the docket during the recent European Political Community summit in Granada that was attended by leaders across the EU, but Spain refused the motion.
Meloni and Sunak organized a separate group that will focus on intelligence sharing between Belgium, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
The op-ed was published in The Times of London and the Italian Corriere della Sera. The two wrote that they are “working together to stop the boats [of migrants] and we call on others to act with the same sense of urgency.”
Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy, has been described in the Italian media as a firebrand with sympathies for Mussolini. Her party is considered controversial and “far-right,” and the only major party in the country that has “never fully renounced its fascist background.”
She has long been a major critic of her country’s immigration policy and vowed last year to introduce a naval blockade to patrol the Mediterranean. But her efforts, thus far, have come up short. This year, more than 127,000 refugees arrived in Italy, which doubles the amount from 2022.
Lampedusa, an Italian island on the Mediterranean that is home to 6,100, Last week alone 8,500 migrants arrived by boat.
Meloni has recently announced asylum seekers seeking repatriation could be detained from three months to up to 18 months, and the country will begin building detention centers in isolated areas, Al Jazeera reported.
Gerald Darmanin, the French interior minister, visited Rome recently and vowed Paris’s support to help Italy with its crisis.
“We have to protect the EU’s external border and, above all, look into asylum requests immediately and send people back to their country when they’re not eligible,” he said, according to Al Jazeera.
Sunak said the plan is to focus on human smugglers who are dictating the terms of these immigrants entering the EU.
“Tackling illegal migration is a shared European challenge, numbers are up everywhere and I believe, as do other European leaders, that it should be us who decide who comes to our countries and not criminal gangs,” he said.
Britain’s Independent newspaper, citing data from the Home Office, reported that more than 25,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats in 2023, which is a 23 percent decline compared to the previous year.
TRENDPOST: Absent from the mainstream media’s coverage of Europe’s migrant crisis is the devastating impact of NATO’s decision to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Migrants are fleeing to Europe because of dire economic and safety conditions in their home countries.
Libya, for example, used to tout the highest per capita income in Africa and life expectancy were the highest on the continent.
Unlike today, with the nation ravaged in destruction, before Gaddafi was murdered, fewer citizens lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands, and they had free healthcare, free education, free electricity, and interest-free loans.
Migration Policy reported in 2020 that Libya was once a “destination” for migrants, but is now a transport point.
Gaddafi once warned: “Now listen, you people of Nato. You’re bombing a wall that stood in the way of African migration to Europe and in the way of Al Qaeda terrorists. This wall was Libya. You’re breaking it.”
The Western media brushed off Gaddafi’s comments as a desperate attempt to hold on to his power. The BBC said he was attempting to exploit European fears about migration in the hope of clinging to power, “but it did not work. He was killed by NATO-backed militias in October 2011 following a popular uprising against his 42-year rule.”
POLAND: Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president, told reporters that the recent clash in Israel will likely result in even more migration pressures on European countries.
“It certainly benefits Russia and Russian aggression against Ukraine. It distracts the world’s attention… But above all, I am afraid that it will unfortunately cause further migration pressure on Europe,” he said, according to Reuters. “We will likely have another wave of migrants from the Middle East, which will hit Europe… Our security, protection of Poland’s borders of course, also the borders of the European Union and the Schengen zone, becomes even more important.”
Poland’s Law and Justice Party—which also faces a tough election challenge later this month and politicians have been speaking out more forcefully in opposition to unchecked immigration. Warsaw announced last week that it deployed its military to its border with Slovakia in an effort to get a grip on immigration. There used to be no checkpoints there, according to Notes From Poland.
“The only appropriate response to the wave of illegal migration that is flooding Europe is a tough defense of the EU’s external borders and a change to the asylum system in the European Union,” Mariusz Kamiński, the interior minister, said, according to the report.
Poland, like other European countries, faced a dramatic increase in asylum cases since the Ukraine War broke out, which led to 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees registering for a personal identification number in the country, according to Balkan Insight.
Sweden: Jews Call for Ban on Nordic Resistance Movement . . .
❝I ALWAYS LIKE to take note of Jewish organisations calling for bans on immigration resistance parties. You could say “Why bother? We’re surrounded by Jews screeching for White Genocide in various, usually artfully disguised, ways. This is just another twig on the bonfire.”
This is true. But arguments about the JQ and its relationship to White minoritization are open to various kinds of objection. You can quote this or that Jewish journalist calling for open borders or abolishing White people. Objection? “It’s just one guy; no proof he’s representative of anything other than himself; besides, he’s making a legitimate argument that’s open to democratic debate.”
That is why calls for bans on political parties assume a special moral significance. It’s a demand for the suppression of debate. And when it comes from an organization that claims to be representative of Jewry, and that claim goes unchallenged, then a special moral culpability attaches to the Jews.❞
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/03/sweden-jews-call-for-ban-on-nordic-resistance-movement/
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