Poland, Hungary: France Riots Are Why We Have Border Control
by Oliver JJ Lane
“Perhaps it is now clear” why Central European states maintain strict border control to “preserve our continent as the most wonderful place in the world for our children and grandchildren”, national leaders say as the rest of the world looks on in horror at the failure of multiculturalism in France.
The Prime Minister of Poland vowed his country would not “repeat the mistakes” of other European states and pledged that his country would be “relentless” in defending its own security, while the Prime Minister of Hungary rhetorically asked whether it was yet clear why the country has the “strictest possible approach to migration”. While some have asserted that linking the extreme acts of violence to France’s migration policy is an act of “pure racism”, a growing number have come to link France’s failure to integrate generations of arrivals into the majority culture and the rioting as a matter of fact, including the leaders of the United States, Poland, and Hungary.
The comments from the Central European nations’ leaders are all the more remarkable because in the recent past both countries have gone from being governed by border control hardliner conservatives to European Union-friendly centrists, at least by their own standards.
Yet even with these electoral changes, Central Europe remains well ahead of the West in defending national distinction.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland is, for instance, a longstanding globalist and former President of the Council of Europe. Yet despite occasional domestic criticism about his absolute dedication to strict border control, his policies remain radically more restrictive than those in Western Europe, and rhetorically he is light-years ahead of the French government.
Mr Tusk said in a statement following a weekend where thousands were arrested, thousands of businesses looted, and hundreds of police officers were injured in France: “Poland will not repeat the mistakes of other European countries, nor will it pay for them.
“We are firmly defending the border against illegal migration, we have our own asylum policy (we do not accept applications), we deport those who break Polish law. On security issues, we will be relentless. That is what I told the leaders of Europe in Brussels.”