The world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees. But in today's Europe, an successful electoral platform includes shutting out immigrants (especially poor or black ones), abandoning multiculturalism in favor of "cultural integration," limiting access to social welfare, halting or reversing the progress of European unification, and pouring police onto the streets.
The world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees. But in today's Europe, an successful electoral platform includes shutting out immigrants (especially poor or black ones), abandoning multiculturalism in favor of "cultural integration," limiting access to social welfare, halting or reversing the progress of European unification, and pouring police onto the streets.