On 13 September, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (unelected) held his State of the Union Address for 2017. It opens with Juncker asserting that after the crisis in 2016, the European Union has had a year in which it turned the situation around…
/Under the heading ‘Staying the course’, Juncker claims that the EU cannot let itself be “blown off course.”…
- Watch Juncker’s State of the Union address
/So what does that mean, “migration will stay on our radar“? Well, the EU wants more of it. Juncker states, without proof and counter-intuitively, that
“Irregular migration will only stop if there is a real alternative to perilous journeys. We are close to having resettled 22,000 refugees from Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon and I support UN High Commissioner Grandi’s call to resettle a further 40,000 refugees from Libya and the surrounding countries.
At the same time, legal migration is a necessity for Europe as an ageing continent. This is why the Commission made proposals to make it easier for skilled migrants to reach Europe with a Blue Card. I would like to thank the Parliament for your support and I call for an ambitious and swift agreement on this important issue.“
Note the deliberate mixing of refugees with migration…
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