A toxic product invades Europe. It causes intolerance, uncontrolled feelings of fear, violent reactions and aggression. The toxic product is called "disinformation" and concerns the transmigrations that pass from the African continent - for decades also devastated by the Europeans - to the European continent, but also involves Latin America, Asia and Oceania. These transmigrations have dramatically rendered obsolete the Geneva Convention "for the protection of civilian persons in time of war", which now appears ineffective in the face of new reasons forcing people to flee wars, environmental disasters and tribal violence.
There are more than sixteen million refugees in the world, three quarters of whom have found asylum outside Europe, while in the EU they do not exceed 1% of the resident population. To give a term of comparison, Europe – which is only partly a land of immigration (legal, illegal, of asylum seekers) – was for decades a land of emigration: from 1836 to 1914, thirty million Europeans searched and found reception in the US. According to the UNHCR, from 30 January to 2016 September 42 landings in Europe decreased by 500.042% (from 300.927 to 166.749 of which 131.702 in Greece and 23 in Italy) while the carnage in the Mediterranean increased frighteningly (XNUMX%).
The relocation policy between member countries does not work: a minimal percentage of refugees change their host country with decisions that often ignore their will and the needs for family and social reunification. The Dublin Regulation will not be able to function according to the Commission's proposal if its essential elements are not substantially modified by passing from a state of emergency to a state of permanence, if the binding nature of the principle of solidarity is not ratified and if there is not an effective protection and reception of unaccompanied minors.
There is still no real European management of transmigration at the EU borders, which makes it difficult for the states of first reception to control it and risks making the suspension of the Schengen agreements permanent. There are no adequate financial instruments to help states promote and implement policies of reception, inclusion and development of intercultural societies based on coexistence and respect for others.
The European Movement has decided to take urgent action with all its collective members:
– to fight misinformation on immigration and asylum;
– to obtain a revision of the proposal to amend the Dublin Regulation, presented by the Commission, in the sense indicated above;
– to ask for the review and acceleration of the procedures determining who has the right to asylum and reception measures;
– to have the right of movement for job search and the right of asylum envisaged by the UN Charter included in the European directives;
– to launch, together with organizations working on behalf of refugees, an international initiative aimed at amending the Geneva Convention;
– to redirect a significant part of regional, social and territorial cohesion expenditure towards inclusive, diverse and pluralistic societies towards reception, giving priority to the development of internal areas;
– to obtain a real development cooperation policy towards Africa that distinguishes countries with democratic regimes and countries where human rights are constantly violated.
