Europe’s Coming Existential Crisis

American Greatness ^ | 8/17/26 | Kenneth Timmerman

[EnderWiggin1970]

Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders. I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa.

But I am also aware of the coming existential crisis facing Europe as a whole and the European Union quite specifically.

It comes in several flavors, and all of them are bitter.

First is the shock and embarrassment posed by the influx of 72,000 North African Muslim wannabe migrants into Ceuta, one of two tiny Spanish enclaves in Morocco, just miles away from the Spanish mainland near Gibraltar.

The inability—or unwillingness—of the Spanish authorities to repulse them has provoked a Europe-wide reaction, prompting Italy’s center-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, to impose passport controls on visitors from Spain for the first time since the Schengen accords of 1995 created a “borderless” European space.

Spain retaliated last week, imposing controls of its own on visitors from Italy.

This week Meloni teamed up with her center-left Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, to jointly condemn uncontrolled migration.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; European Union; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cueta; europe; existential

[Mount Athos]

Meloni’s behavior has been so contrary to her image.
She did big things to enable mass migration then puts up talk as if she is the opposite. Most people would assume she is an anti immigration politician...

[MinorityRepublican]

Controlled opposition.

[Carry_Okie]

She did big things to enable mass migration then puts up talk as if she is the opposite.

Are these matters of predisposition or picking battles?

[doorgunner69]

So long as we do not spend a cent bailing them out again.

I dumped any thoughts of visiting there decades ago, what with the socialism, smoking everywhere, general hatred of Americans.

i would rather visit islands in the Pacific.

[Rockingham]

This is a common political tactic on immigration, to talk and act in response to distressing events in a populist way while keeping intact the immigration policies preferred by the elite for the sake of cheap labor.

[wintertime]

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[Adder]

Europe and the EU are at a crossroads. Down one road, Europe will become increasingly authoritarian and increasingly centralized, while its founding cultures will be increasingly marginalized and demeaned in favor of Muslim immigration and multiculturalism. These were the faults that led to Brexit, Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.

Down another road, Europe will return to its roots, celebrate its diverse cultures and its Christian and Jewish heritage, and honor the wishes of its member states and their people.

Count me skeptical, but I don’t see that democratic alternative on the horizon, at least not yet.

Yeah, me neither. Europe is falling to these ignorant Muslim hoards on purpose. France is mostly gone. Germany is losing their economy. Billions of euros are wasted on supporting these leeches. And its all intentional.
Meloni, at least, is trying. She is constrained by EU membership to keep Italy from failing but she sees the mess Italy is in with the huge influx of ignorant illegal immigrants. To my view, they are not even cheap labor...just drains on an already stressed system. [The cheap labor comes from places like Romania and the former Czech republics...People who actually want to work.]
I think Trump did a huge disservice to her when he trashed her.
The native Europeans are going to have to rise up to defeat Brussels...and I don’t think they will be able to vote themselves out of the mess they have created.

[srmanuel]

If you look around the EU, there really is NO leader of a country that is doing anything serious about stopping mass migration.

Meloni is turning out to be a master politician, before her Italy it seemed was changing prime ministers about every 3-6 months, she’s managed to stabilize the country, pay lip service to stopping mass migration without really doing anything, much like RINOs in this country.

It will be interesting to see if Nigel Farage, the AfD, or Marine Le Pen’s party gains power will they actually do what they are campaigning on and start deporting immigrants in large numbers, really make a dent in the problem, the first one that does will face incredible obstacles, the media will generate all types of negative stories, look at the USA how any incident brings out the apologists for mass deportations.

[Chickensoup]

Was watching DARKEST HOUR last evening about Churchill and the beginning of wwii.

All I could do is shake my head and think about to what end?

[tlozo]

general hatred of Americans. i would rather visit islands in the Pacific

LOL, like Hawaii? This "haole" visited once, never again.

[Dr. Franklin]

What’s astounding is that not one state in Europe has said we want to welcome those of European heritage, e.g. white people, back to Europe. The elites want all of the third world economic refugees but don’t want white people coming back to Europe to make it more white.

[Sicon]

Down another road, Europe will return to its roots, celebrate its diverse cultures and its Christian and Jewish heritage, and honor the wishes of its member states and their people.

The odds of this outcome are vanishingly close to zero.

[unread]

It’s now easy to see the cooperation between the commies and the muslims.

Words alone, and the occasional shaking of the fist, are not going stop the invasion of the western world.

It has become obvious, whether we like it or not, the only thing that will save our civilization is war. Millions of lives will be lost. Islam has already publicly declared its war with the west and we seem to be trying our very best to just ignore it.

There will soon become a time, if it hasn’t already happened, when some raghead will show up on your doorstep and inform you that “He’s there to marry your 8-year-old daughter.”

Maybe that’s when we’ll finally realize that islam is indeed totally incompatible with values of the western world and absolutely needs to be sent back to where the hell it came from...

[caddie]

What about OUR coming existential crisis?

Europe is lost.

But if we act NOW, we can save the US.

We need to deport Moose Limbs and stop all immigration, legal and illegal.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Are we really the Great Satan? This would be a noble experiment: Cut off all aid and trade to Europe just to see what happens.

[unread]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/imam-banned-from-uk-and-canada-for-defending-rape-of-non-muslim-women-still-allowed-in-the-us/

[AppyPappy]

“It’s now easy to see the cooperation between the commies and the muslims.”

Compare and contrast that with the commies fawning over LGBTQ issues. The Muslims are harmless until they get into office. Then the rainbow flags and pride parades disappear. Next to disappear will be women’s issues.

[unread]

Islamic scholar in California, Uthman Farooq, has a message to Americans:

“Nobody can stop Islam in America. This is NOT your country, this is OUR country. This is the land of Allah. If you want to live in a place with no Muslims, I suggest you go to hell.” pic.twitter.com/DeWgzEkw2W

[tlozo]

Cut off all aid and trade to Europe just to see what happens.

Economic disaster for us, EU is our largest trading partner.

U.S. and European Union total bilateral trade reached an estimated €1.8 trillion ($1.5 trillion plus in goods and services). Total goods trade alone clocked in at over €910 billion ($1.04 trillion), while services trade added another roughly €865 billion ($500+ billion tracked separately in U.S. data)