Migration crisis

by Thomas Ledegang

As a European Studies student, I want to see things from other perspectives than only my own. I have a lot of interest in the European Union and the future that lies ahead for all 27 member states. That is also why these articles and the themes of them really resonate with the way I am thinking as an European Studies student. Therefore others can absolutely reject or combat my opinion, as it is a free world. This site EU-pulse hopes to shed light from different writes perspectives such as mine on the readers themselves


Migration in the EU - A future positive

 

Europe has seen a big increase in migration and emigration within the scope of the European Union. A lot of citizens are fleeing the countries where a war is taking place, to result in growing national problems within the destined countries. Most of the time these migrants come to the EU for their safety, but sometimes also for financial reasons such as for work. 

 

History repeats itself

Europe has been struggling with migration for quite a long time now, with also legal cases being a center of attention with regard to Belarusian migrants in Poland, here a legal institution had to protect the human rights of the Belarusian migrants and accept them into the country, as it is a part of the European Union to safely and correctly handle in these situations. 

However, there have been countries within the EU that are becoming more far-left winged within their national politics, as they greatly put their emphasis on making migration into their country more of a hard case. Countries who share shores with the Mediterranean Sea have all been accused of pushing back migrants from Africa, as they simply come with too many to deal with for these countries.  

For my own point of view, I live in an environment where my city is very open to immigrants. The city itself holds 2 asylums available for those who need it. However, when we are looking on a national scale we can see that the problems of having too little place for asylum, continues to grow. From my perspective, this can not only cause damage nationally, but also within Europe itself. How? That is still the question. 

 

Changing the perspectives

How can we make the migration crisis itself be a better subject than it is made out to be within Europe? When looking at other countries abroad, I see a lot of legislative procedures containing the migration numbers for certain countries. But you cannot just say to one person that he is welcome and turn your back on another one. 

For me, that really combats the human rights of the right of asylum. The European Union had from the start their foundation right about being together as nations. So why do they not handle this crisis like an economic one? When Greece was in economic ruins, they immediately showed support for them. But with this in my opinion harder topic, it seems like some more freethinking countries like Norway or Sweden distance themselves from this subject. As they are not really considered popular immigrant locations, they don’t have anything to reflect on regarding this subject. 

 

Coming to a solution

My solution would be to educate every ems only right for every member state to see the real difficulties that some of the other member states have. They can acknowledge these problems which can use legislation to prevent countries from being overflown with migrants, so that all countries have a more safe and secure migration policy applicable to all the current and candidate member states of the European Union. This is because the European Union should have room for everyone with good intentions and should not be affected by the inhuman actions some of the current European countries are doing.