>>> 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