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“Yet another unsavoury EPP chunk of red meat, meant to attract the far-right vote:" EU group backed by von der Leyen plans Rwanda-style migration reforms (www.theguardian.com)

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The European People’s party (EPP), an umbrella group of centre-right and conservative parties, has said in the final draft of its manifesto ahead of elections to the European parliament in May that it wants a series of deal with non-EU countries with a view to deporting irregular migrants for asylum processing in “safe” third countries.

“Yet another unsavoury EPP chunk of red meat, meant to attract the far-right vote. It will not work. All the EPP strategy has achieved over the past years, is making the far right bigger. So if they know it doesn’t work, why do they stubbornly repeat the same tactics each time?” said Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch MEP, and the lead representative for the liberal Renew group on the parliament committee for civil liberties, justice and home affairs.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Before mass slaughtering the Jews in concentration camps, the Nazis also proposed to deport all the Jews to some african country, for instance Madagascar. Now it is about "irregular asylum seekers" which are all ayslum seekers. Nobody can enter a country "regularly" to ask for asylum and get it granted. Next it will be about all "migrants" that are considered undesireable. Then it will be about citizens, who cannot prove an aryan lineage, progressive thinkers, LGTB and other marginalized groups. Finally the concentration camps will be reerected.

That is the plan of the fascists. In Germany they have discussed their plans in a meeting between the fascist AfD, the far right CDU and people recognized as parts of illegal fascist "activist" groups.

The EPP is preparing a cooperation with fascists in all of Europe, giving rise to a new era of fascist regimes in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (8 children)

That might be a bit of a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, it's not. It's precisely what happened back then and that's precisely what the remaining living Holocaust and Weimar Republic survivors are saying.

So why don't you believe them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Because nobody can reliably predict the future. That's one possible outcome and I think it's very unlikely.

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