You’ll be shocked to hear that this is just more theatrics from the populist right. The EU immediately confirmed what everyone, including the PVV itself, already knew: this is not possible under EU law. Of course our big friend Orban immediately jumped on the opportunity to add his own theatrics and also requested the same.
Don’t dismiss it as “just retoric”, they will hammer this issue until they succeed.
Not going to happen without breaking the current treaties. And for all the headlines, there is very little actual plans presented by the current dutch right wing government. Making such wild moves impossible if they dont want to do anything incredibly stupid.
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Exactly. I was disappointed to see that the article did not include the surprisingly quick rebuttal reply from the EU which I believe arrived withing a few hours. By leaving that part out The Guardian is just amplifying the silly but damaging symbolic theater of the Wilders PVV party.
Fucking ghouls every one of them.
How can I escape them? Is there an opt-out for them? Please?
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If you go down that route, when do you stop? There’s so many of them, at varying levels of danger.
Those in charge here created the blueprint with brexshit, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of right winged Europe follows suit, and WW3 really gets going.
They’ve already tried to push it once in the Netherlands, I guess they realised they need a couple more years to con the public to get enough people to vote for their oppressors to have more freedom to oppress.
Same in Flanders. Currently the NVA (right-wing) are in charge, and next elections in a few weeks are slated to be a big win for VB (ultra-rightwing).
We simply never learn. I suppose we and our children will simply end up paying the piper in the end, just like so many generations ago.
From the bottom of my heart, fuck these guys. I hate it so much the far right is on the rise anywhere and even more when it’s around where I live. People get riled up and vote for these assholes, even though they lie about everything and say they will magically fix everything without a plan on how to do so. They say: “We will go to the EU and get this and this changed!”, everyone with a brain including the EU says: “That’s not how this works, we all agreed on these laws, you don’t get to pick and choose which ones you are going to follow”. And they come back with nothing changed, so they yell about how unfair the EU is and we should abolish it.
It’s a nightmare to live through.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/abschaffung-asylrecht-stuebgen-brandenburg-100.html
Brandenburg [Germany] Interior Minister for the abolition of the right of asylum