From Zendo Deb at TFS Magnum, we get this nugget of Euro-continental discord.
Rome’s recent decision to grant temporary residence permits to migrants from North Africa, allowing them to travel within the Schengen area, has pushed Paris to restore border controls with Italy to block those attempting to join friends or parents in France, sparking a diplomatic mini-crisis that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are trying to defuse.
But the damage has already been done: Incapable of finding their balance faced with the consequences of the ongoing revolution in the Arab world or of resisting pressure from domestic anti-immigrant parties, European Union leaders are succumbing to the temptation to retrench. The development could have serious consequences for the 25 countries that have implemented the Schengen Agreement, which removes internal border checks between those lands.
So, the way I see it, Socialist Italifornia wants cheap workers but Sherriff Le Aparo-Sarkozy in Francizonia has put up a wall – maybe they should settle the border dispute the traditional European way, with artillery! As the French daily La Tribune writes: Certainly, illegal immigration is a real problem: The arrival of illegal migrants penalizes the societies that have to absorb them, starting with those immigrants who have already obtained legal status.
Ya think??? And then you have to buy oil from Libya…
Fighting over who get's there first?
word: reform – no shit.
LikeLike
I don't know why they are arguing…they are heading for Britain and our benefits.
LikeLike
Thank-you for giving my post a name (I forgot!).
They might fight over who should surrender first – and that could start a war! 🙂 They have all those old gun emplacements from the last time, and flags and uniforms – they need to be good ecologists and recycle them.
LikeLike
Huh. Who would surrender first in the Franco-Italian War?
LikeLike