Washington Is Forcing Its European Vassals To
Accept 2nd Wave of Immigrants
The Obama Regime forced the EU to accept
millions of refugees from Washington’s failed wars in the Middle East and
Africa. Now the Obama Regime is forcing the EU to accept millions of refugees
from its failed policy in Ukraine. Europe as we once knew it no longer exists.
Washington has thrown the European peoples into the trash bin of history.
Open Borders? EU Commission May Pave Path to Millions of Ukrainian Migrants
The dream of the Maidan revolutionaries -for
Ukrainians to be able to travel to Europe without visas, has moved one step
closer to reality, with the European Commission proposing to lift visa
restrictions on Ukrainians. What might a visa-free regime between Ukraine and
the European Union look like for Ukrainians and Europeans? Sputnik
investigates.
Speaking at a press conference in the
Ukrainian capital earlier this week, Johannes Hahn, the Commissioner
for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, announced
that the EU-Ukraine Agreement on Association has 'preliminarily taken
effect', 'preliminarily' because of the Dutch referendum, where Dutch
voters chose to reject the treaty 61% to 38%.
On May 11, the EU's Justice and Home Affairs
Council is set to consider the liberalization of the visa regime
for Ukrainians. More importantly, the European Commission's proposal will
now need the backing of the EU's member states, as well as that
of the European Parliament.
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If approved, the agreement would formally grant
Ukraine's 42 million citizens the right to visit Europe's Schengen Area
for 90 days without a visa.
Commenting on the European Commission
announcement, independent Russian newspaper Svobodnaya Pressa suggested that if the EU approves the
EC's proposal, one thing is clear: many Ukrainians "will not throw away
the opportunity to make a dash from Ukraine. Mass unemployment
in the country is growing (officially it stands at 11.5%;
unofficially, nearly a quarter of the working population sits idle), and
these people need to feed their families. Up to now, [a considerable
number] went to work in Russia, but this does not fit
into the ideological fabric of the new regime."
Officially, European officials have repeatedly
emphasized, Ukrainians will not be allowed to work. Unofficially, all bets
are off. "Ukraine's migrant workers will have the whole of Europe
at their feet, and if the wave of Ukrainians rushing to the Old
World catches up with the wave of refugees from the Middle East,
this will turn into a tsunami. Does Brussels understand this?"
Speaking to the newspaper, Moscow State
University political science professor Andrei Manoilo explained that
unfortunately, while Europe "may understand perfectly well all the
consequences of this step, it cannot do anything about it, because
the US is insisting on it, and resisting Washington is not something
Europe is capable of. It simply does not have the strength, nor the leaders,
to defend its own position."
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The agreement on European Association, and
the corresponding visa-free travel regime, was not decided by referendums,
Manoilo recalled. "Instead it was taken by parliaments where
for the most part, officials are members of European elites
cultivated for a long time by the United States. It is well known how
the Americans work with Western elites; how they find young, promising
talented politicians, and nurture them, invite them for internships,
provide them with 'guidance'," etc.
"Therefore the decision made by this
pro-American elite is absolutely understandable, and could not have been
otherwise."
In any case, Manoilo warns, the European
Commission's decision, if approved by European governments, would lead
to new social problems for a continent already struggling from a
faulty immigration policy. "The visa-free regime offered to Kiev
would open the flood-gates for a massive outflow of Ukrainians, ready
to go anywhere to escape their own country, which is like a leaky
barge that is quickly sinking."
Ukrainians, the political scientist notes, will
go to Europe in the hopes of finding work or receiving
allowances, "and the first conflict that will arise will be
between the new Ukrainian migrants and representatives of those nationalities
[including Poles and Balts] who now work as porters, dishwashers, cleaners
and so on in Western Europe."
Such conflicts for jobs, the political
scientist recalls, have already been taking place, on a smaller scale,
in Poland, Hungary and Romania, to which Ukrainians, particularly men
escaping last year's conscription campaigns, have already fled. "And now,
if one considers that the flow of Ukrainian migrants will be massive,
these problems will reach a colossal scale."
Furthermore, "it's also important
to understand that Ukrainian migration would flow to areas which
migrants from other areas, including the Middle East and North Africa,
consider their turf. They have their own enclaves, bases of support,
systems of coordination and control. And they believe that they have
firmly occupied a niche allowing them to exist at the expense
of their host countries – to receive benefits, free housing, medical
care, etc." If someone else, some 'other' migrant group comes in, "it
will result in direct clashes between the two streams of migrants,
and nobody knows how such a conflict might end."
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Ultimately, Manoilo notes, for those
Ukrainians who would seek to use the visa-free arrangement for its
intended purpose – to travel freely throughout Europe, this agreement
is presently close to useless, because the vast majority
of Ukrainians simply do not have the means. "Given the current
exchange rate of the hryvnia against the dollar, and especially the
euro, Ukrainians do not have the money to survive in Europe
for even a short period of time after arriving there."
As far as the dangers of migrant radicalism
are concerned, the political scientist warns that "the EU, in opening
its borders to Ukrainian migration, may find itself in a situation
where Europe is divided into spheres of influence
between Ukrainian ultranationalist and Islamist groups. After all,
those who fought in the Donbass in punitive nationalist battalions
don't know how to do anything else except to fight, rob and kill. And
naturally, they too will go to Europe in search of a better
life…"
For his part, Alexei
Kuznetsov, the head of the Center for European Studies at the
Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations,
suggests that it's important not to overdramatize the situation.
"Ukrainian migrants have
one advantage over their Arab counterparts, who have a hard time
integrating into European society: The Ukrainians can do so more easily,
taking unattractive jobs not wanted by the locals – that is, those jobs
that do not require any special skills – working at a construction site,
in services, etc."
Furthermore, Kuznetsov
suggested, the situation is not as disastrous as some analysts warn.
"The visa-free regime can always be canceled. That is, if the
Europeans feel that everything is going badly, they will try to rectify
the situation and reintroduce the visa regime."
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Vadim Trukhachev, professor
of the Department of Foreign Regions at the Russian State
University for the Humanities, told Svobodnaya Pressa that whatever the
risks, and they are not insignificant, European leaders appear to be trying
to offer Ukraine's leadership at least one policy success
following the major economic, social and political losses which resulted
in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup, which European leaders
helped to sponsor.
The dangers, according
to the analyst, include "an increase in the number
of illegally employed persons, the simplification of procedures
for persons with a criminal past and present to enter
Europe, the growth in smuggling of everything from weapons
from the Donbass combat zone to cigarettes and alcohol. Nevertheless,
the EU's leadership now considers it more important to support Ukraine's
leaders. Otherwise, they would show that the whole 'Maidan' was begun
in vain."
Finally, for his part,
Ukrainian political scientist Yuri Gorodnenko remains skeptical over the
European Commission's proposal.
"For now we are talking
about an initiative by the European Commission. This body is,
incidentally, not responsible to voters, and so is free to initiate
whatever it likes – even a flight to Jupiter. The proposal must first be considered
by the European Council, composed of European heads of state,
and by the European Parliament, consisted of elected MPs. We should
await the views of these two institutions before drawing any
conclusions."
Ultimately, Gorodnenko
suggests, "Kiev apparently asked for the EU to give it a piece
of paper –at least one pleasant word to smooth over the bitter
pill of the Dutch referendum. Europe has demonstrated that it is not
afraid to spare empty promises."
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160423/1038492048/ukraine-visa-free-regime-analysis.html#ixzz46ggmjJvE
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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