Should solidarity not begin at home?
3.6.2015
Question for written answer E-008974-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Aymeric Chauprade (ENF)
Following the appalling tragedies in recent months in the Mediterranean in which thousands of migrants have perished, the Commission published a roadmap setting out measures to tackle the catastrophic consequences of illegal immigration.
More specifically, the Commission announced that it would put forward a legislative proposal establishing an automatic system for the distribution of migrants among the Member States before the end of 2015. The Commission specifies that the system will take into account efforts which Member States have already made, voluntarily or otherwise; in other words, the ‘good pupils’ will be rewarded, whilst the ‘bad pupils’ will be punished, all in the name of the principle of solidarity.
Should the first beneficiaries of solidarity not be EU citizens, who are already bearing the grunt of the economic and social problems and the threats to national identity caused by the mass immigration which the Commission claims to want to regulate?