The end of fortress Europa?

This is from unsplash and cropped and shrunk.

This is a commentary on the CoFoE proposals on ‘Migration’, from its 4th Citizen’s panel and working group. CoFoE is the European Union’s hybrid citizen’s panel on the future policies and structure of the Union. Migration is often the issue where racism within the state and population expresses itself most strongly. Debate has become very polarised. If you’re interested, in the issue, you’ll remember the stories and pictures of the Greek refugee camps, and deaths in the Med and in the Channel together with the EU’s payments to Turkey, and the prosecution [ also here ] of rescue ship captains by Italy. Let’s hope this is the opportunity to bury “Fortress Europa”.

We should together recognise that one of the founding forces of the EU was the post ww2 atmosphere; recovering from war and its consequent mass displacements. In the European nations the tragedy was experienced by whole populations as victims or combatants.

There seems to be a growing need for authenticity and authority when speaking and writing, which I should ignore. Good ideas will survive dishonest attacks. I am proud though to be part of the group of people that initiated Lewisham Labour’s campaign which led to Lewisham becoming the first City of Sanctuary in the UK.

In order to comment on the proposals, I need to remind myself that Migrants can be categorised as workers, refugees…