Less ideology and more realism on refugees

The liberal Swiss daily Corriere del Ticino criticises all parties who have voiced their opinions in the controversy about how to treat refugees and calls for more pragmatism: "Instead of taking refuge in utopian dreams of crawling into the hell of fear it would be far more clever to ask how many immigrants we can take in and integrate. … When making his ideological acknowledgement of the ethno-centric ideas of the Lega [Nord] Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was against the birth of a multi-ethnic society in Italy. This declaration makes no sense because Italy has long been a multi-ethnic society. In a nutshell: ideologising the subject of immigration won't lead to a solution. It would therefore be desirable if all the ideological weapons were put away and a good dose of realism was injected into the cultural and political life of the country which would arm the body with a robust and pragmatic mind."

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