Posted on 04/15/2020 9:11:51 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
The coronavirus pandemic has resurrected national boundaries that had all but faded away, upending businesses and lives. Perhaps nowhere is the change more dramatic than in Europe, which has spent years erasing borders.
On the German side of the border with Poland, a laundry that washes hospital bed sheets is struggling to cope without almost half its staff, who used to commute from Poland. Polish workers, including doctors and nurses, have to decide whether to stay on the eastern side of the border or rent private rooms in Germany to keep working. A Polish business consultant has been paying truck drivers to spirit across the border documents—and white sausage for an Easter meal.
“It’s as if I’m smuggling,” said Agnieszka Zdziabek-Bollmann, a consultant who advises cross-border businesses and workers.
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How’s that open borders, Joint Currency,
European Union, Open Immigration Thingy doing now for you?
What is doing most damage to EU’s open borders philosophy was the decision to open the borders to third world immigrants.
That provoked England’s exit, it provoked eastern Europe to defy Brussels, Italy is on the brink, and nationalist movements on the rise across Europe.
People were willing to put up with abuse from Brussels to a point, in exchange for an open Europe... open to each other. The flood of immigrants promoted by Brussels has caused countries to question the Union, and the Union’s poor response, lack of help, to Italy and Spain during the epidemic is making people think, “Why do we need them?”
>>> What is doing most damage to EU’s open borders philosophy was the decision to open the borders to third world immigrants.
Initially it was deemed a necessity - what with dangerously low birth rate and generous socialist/socilaist-lite benefits to their original citizens.
It is liberalism and socialism which are rapidly feeding the decline of Europe
The tendency of not wanting to work, or to get some cushy Public service job , and then all the sudden the bureaucracy out numbers the overtaxed workers- is your typical problem face by these European governments
Margaret Thatcher put it perfectly as much socialists do fine until they run out of everybody else’s money
And then there’s Sweden...
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