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EU Home Affairs Commissioner: Europe must go ‘back to the future’ of open borders after coronavirus is under control

May 14, 2020 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

While the economy is in a shambles and citizens remain in lockdown, the UN has already resumed enforcing its legally binding Migration Pact. The UN released new guidelines, which it called “state responsibilities” under the pact, which include “steps that several governments have already taken to swiftly release migrants from detention and to provide access to healthcare, housing and other services regardless of migration status.” As if that weren’t enough, now the European Union is prioritizing opening its borders again to allow for the resumption of the hijra once the lockdown rules are eased.

The European Union must go “back to the future” of open borders once the coronavirus pandemic is brought under control, a senior EU official said….. The remarks signaled a coming push by the executive European Commission to have EU countries restore the cherished Schengen zone of control-free travel that has collapsed in a welter of unilateral moves to rein in transmission of the virus.

Even more absurd is that the claim is being advanced that open borders “strengthen” the economy. In reality, such policies have proved damaging on all levels: lack of assimilation by migrants, mass rapes, exorbitant costs to taxpayers, rising crime, and national security issues.

Citing the growing economic damage being done to the tourism industry, the EU Commission claimed that any delay to opening the borders “would not only put a heavy burden on the functioning of the internal market but also on the lives of millions of EU citizens who are being denied the benefits of free movement”.

In the draft proposal, non-discrimination on nationality rules will apply to the lifting of border controls, meaning that all EU citizens residing in a country will have the right of free movement when another country lifts restrictions.”

Adding to the extra strain on societies that are coping with the coronavirus, taxpayers will be saddled with a heavier burden to accommodate this bizarre EU agenda, which will only serve to weaken further the EU’s democratic institutions.

“EU must go ‘back to the future’ of open borders after COVID-19, commissioner says,” by Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters, May 7, 2020:

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union must go “back to the future” of open borders once the coronavirus pandemic is brought under control, a senior EU official said on Thursday, after a spate of frontier closures by member states fraying the bloc’s cohesion.

The remarks signaled a coming push by the executive European Commission to have EU countries restore the cherished Schengen zone of control-free travel that has collapsed in a welter of unilateral moves to rein in transmission of the virus.

The breakdown of untrammelled travel within the 26-nation Schengen zone, a cornerstone of the world’s biggest and most lucrative single market, recalled the flurry of uncoordinated border closures during the 2015-16 migration crisis.

Now, member states’ varying responses to the coronavirus pandemic – which have included summary halts to border crossings and emergency health checks of arriving travellers – has subjected EU unity to another bitter test.

“We now need to get back to the future, back to normality. And we need to do so as soon as the health situation allows it,” Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, whose brief includes migration, told a virtual exchange with European lawmakers.

“Member states introduced different measures in an uncoordinated manner. Unwinding these different national restrictions will take some time, but we can do it.”

The European Commission wants member states to start gradually lifting national border controls and next week will issue guidelines amounting to a balancing act between avoiding a fresh wave of infections and allowing economies to revive….

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  1. terry sullivan says

    May 14, 2020 at 1:03 pm

    migration pact is voluntary?

    uk has left eu and was never in schengen

  2. mortimer says

    May 14, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    Quote: “… back to normality,” said Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson.

    Open borders were never ‘normal’. In early times they called this ‘INVASION’.

    Migration without assimilation is in fact INVASION.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 14, 2020 at 3:26 pm

      Agreed.
      See “Gatecrashers” with Peter Sutherland quote:
      https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/03/gate-crashers/

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 14, 2020 at 3:33 pm

      “Normality” is Africans swarming over the fences in Melilla, people-trafficking by boat to Greek islands, Turks attacking EU frontiers in Greece, Iraqis and Iranians crossing the Channel to Britain, and “family re-unification” (average 20 “family members” per application in Ireland). Just like Old Times before Wuhan.
      “Diversity is Europe”s DESTINY!”, barked arrogant Frans Timmermans.

  3. James says

    May 14, 2020 at 1:23 pm

    This is another reason for more Brexits from the EU. The more countries that leave, the better.

  4. mortimer says

    May 14, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    Globalist billionaires benefit from open borders, but ordinary people suffer the loss of their culture, language and heritage.

  5. mgoldberg says

    May 14, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    Whats so astonishing is the rape and destruction of so many children and young peoples lives numbering in the hundreds of thousands by now. And yet, nowhere is there the recognition of the destruction of their societies children on a mass scale. Rather, the utopian globalists simply ignore the destruction and ask for more of the source of the destruction.

  6. JanD says

    May 14, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    given the economic impact of the current viral pandemic, every expenditure that is counter-productive must be re-evaluated, and as a NYC resident, my vote is to end all funds transferred to the UN, evict them from our soil, use the building for some more needed purpose. No more bottom-less pits of derision and self-destruction. It’s a start.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 14, 2020 at 3:37 pm

      “The UN, dominated by the 56 Islamic state “Organisation of Islamic Co-operation”, is no longer pursuing its remit of promoting peace. It has become captive to a sinister objective to dissolve national sovereignties in favour of a One World Order.”

      https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/03/the-crushing-of-irish-culture-it-has-been-decided/

  7. Wellington says

    May 14, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    The Western death wish continues, courtesy of rubes aplenty like this exceedingly foolish woman.

    More expansively, and particularly looking through an historical lense, although all kinds of polities—city-states (e.g., ancient Athens), tribal confederations (e.g., the Iroquois), nation-states (e.g., France), empires (e.g., ancient Rome), etc.—have weaknesses, nevertheless, and based on voluminous evidence, the most effective model to follow is that of the nation-state, which has so many advantages, not the least being that it is neither too small nor too big and it also possessed of the capacity to rally around a shared value system, whether based in ethnicity (e.g., traditional “Englishness” or “Irishness or “Polishness”) or a common sense of what citizenship in said nation-state conveys (e.g., America).

    But this globalism nonsense fostered by the EU is rooted in all kinds of stupidities, not the least being a total miscalculation of the inimical nature of Islam as well as the denigration of pride in ethnicity and of the nation-state. Three huge mistakes, among so many others.

    The EU is appalling. So is support of it. This should be crystal clear by now, but the fact that it isn’t itself speaks volumes. As a reminder here, as evidence of the monumental folly of the EU, focus on the “Switzerland approach.” Way better to be sure.

  8. gravenimage says

    May 14, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    EU Home Affairs Commissioner: Europe must go ‘back to the future’ of open borders after coronavirus is under control
    ……………………….

    Well, we can’t have a little thing like a global pandemic slowing down the Muslim destruction of Europe, can we?

    Grotesquely, Ylva Johansson is positing herself as someone *protecting* Europeans:

    “Delivering security to citizens in a turbulent world”

    All European citizens want to feel secure from the growing threats of the modern world; it will be my role to deliver this security, says Ylva Johansson

    https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/feature/delivering-security-citizens-turbulent-world

    I’m sure all Europeans feel secure now…sarc/off

    Note the caveat that supposedly all Europeans are frightened by the “modern world”–I guess this does not include Jihad terror, since that has been around for 1400 years now.

    Ludicrously, one of the dangers she say we face during the Coronavirus lockdown is spending time on-line: “people in lockdown are more vulnerable to online scams, bogus medicine sales and terrorist content.”

    Uh–right. The first two are plausible, but what Infidels would be vulnerable to “terrorist content”? What rot, This is just Muslims.

  9. Martin says

    May 14, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    video – Ylva Johansson gives guidelines on internal border controls and Schengen area to save Summer

    “….this virus knows no borders…”

  10. Shastra says

    May 14, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    take millions of them instead of forcing it on countries like india who never participated in your wars. be a ex EU before forcing it on others.

    • gravenimage says

      May 14, 2020 at 11:58 pm

      Most Muslims in India are the descendants of those who invaded India–they are not immigrants from Dar-al-Islam.

      And the idea that Muslims have the right to invade the West because we dared to oppose Jihad in the past is of course just grotesque.

      • Shastra says

        May 15, 2020 at 5:43 am

        sorry most muslims in india dont think like that they are proud of mass murdering islamic invaders. you people didnt oppose jihad you people invaded the world not the opposite.increased the jihad by supporting muslims. unlike india which didnt invade any middle eastern countries nor involved in their war. recent ex of how you people let yazidis to die. yet at the same time cry over idea of india sending back millions of illegal Bangladeshis to their country. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/08/why-britain-created-monarchies-middle-east
        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/britain-house-of-saud-jamal-khashoggi-murder

        • gravenimage says

          May 15, 2020 at 10:14 pm

          No, the West does not wage Jihad. What tripe.

          And the West did not create monarchies in the Muslim world, nor did we kill Jamal Khashoggi.

          Why does this poster continue to confuse the civilized world with Islam?

  11. Battle says

    May 15, 2020 at 5:15 am

    When a sex craved gimmegrant rapeugee takes free travel inside Ylva Johansson’s vagina then she will think?

    • gravenimage says

      May 15, 2020 at 10:15 pm

      This woman is a fool, but I *do not* want to see her raped by ravening Mohammedans.

  12. Giacomo Latta says

    May 15, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Like building a city below the ocean’s maximum water line the creation of the EU was a bad idea from the start except for economic reasons. In order for the EU to adopt policies that concern defence and foreign affairs, all member states must agree unanimously. Pure genius! This pause in world travel should be causing Europeans to wonder how the tourism sector of their economies are going to recover when muslims are attacking all and sundry in the streets.

  13. OLD GUY says

    May 16, 2020 at 12:17 am

    EU is allowing the over throw of Europe by muslims through migration of the enemy in civilian clothes. What a terrible loss to humanity to watch the destruction of European culture and history to the Islamic hate and violence that is slowly taking over.

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