The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.
The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
I disagree with you. If you look at the points that the far right is pushing in each country, they are pretty close to the ones made in the U.S.: immigration and sexuality. There is an added point in the E.U., which is about Brussels overreach, which is also not that far from the Central government vs. States rights. Also, the points are being driven with the exact same strategies, since they are driven on the same platforms with the same reasonings. All in all, I think you can take the U.S. as a precursor of what is happening in the E.U. Including the fact that the community voices are in many, many cases, either astroturfed or poisoned.
If you do take it as such, it doesn’t seem that appeasing will work at all. In fact, it will give the far right a foothold for all other topics.