Antonio Papell on the foundering of a European ideal

The Spanish journalist Antonio Papell deplores Brussels' management of clandestine immigration. "It is clear that there is no desire to turn the problem of leaky borders into a community issue. Shared perspectives in Europe are so feeble that North Europeans are incapable of seeing that immigrant saturation of Spain concerns them too. In fact, what is happening stresses the fact that the crisis in Europe, that has not stopped growing since the failure of the European constitution, is much more serious than initially thought. We are not facing a dead end in European construction, we are experiencing a regressive phase before the final foundering. ... The European political class and intelligentsia are obliged to activate and guide the European spirit once again so that the 'big idea' can regain its scope and its future."

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