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France is 'dumping' ground for EU migration and visa-free Schengen area must be scrapped, says Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, calls for Europe's visa-free Schengen zone to be "suspended" as it has become a catalyst for welfare tourism



Nicolas Sarkozy Photo: REX

By Henry Samuel
5:20PM BST 22 May 2014

Nicolas Sarkozy entered the political fray ahead of European elections today, describing current EU immigration policies as “an abject failure” and calling for the bloc’s visa-free Schengen area to be rewritten.

Angling for re-election in 2017, the former centre-Right French president called for the creation of a Franco-German economic bloc at the heart of the eurozone, in an opinion piece in Le Point magazine .

With the far-Right Front National polled to pip Mr Sarkozy’s crisis-wracked UMP to the post in Sunday’s EU elections in France, the ex-president said: "Schengen I must be immediately suspended and be replaced by a Schengen II of which member countries can only be a part if they previously agree to the same immigration policy.”

Europe migration policy has failed and the need to replace Schengen I has become obvious, he added, as the current system allows immigrants who enter it to “choose the (European) country with the most generous welfare system”.

"Europe is not meant to organise social and migratory dumping, almost systematically at the expense of France," he warned.

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Designed to foster the free movement of people and goods, the Schengen area comprises 26 European countries that have abolished passport or any other type of border control in-between their common borders.
Non-EU countries like Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are part of the area, but EU members Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland and Romania are not.
Without mentioning by name his Socialist French presidential successor, François Hollande, Mr Sarkozy nevertheless decried an “absence of leadership (that) is placing Europe in danger, as it is without vision, direction or priorities”.
He also called for half of the competences of Brussels to be returned to national governments. The European Commission, meanwhile, should be stripped of all legislative powers – the sole preserve of the EU parliament.
However, he warned against the rise of populist anti-EU sentiment, saying the bloc protects its citizens from the "ideological veering off course of governments and majority parties.
"If the European Union broke up centuries-old hatred and conflicts of interest would resurface more violently."
"We must correct its excesses but as a project it must be preserved."
A "large, coherent and stable" Franco-German economic bloc at the heart of the eurozone would allow France "to better defend (its) interests in the face of German competition by doing away with fiscal and social disadvantages", he added.
This "would allow us to take over the leadership of the 18 countries that make up our monetary union", and to focus on a list of core priorities, including industry, agriculture, trade negotiations, energy and research.
Mr Sarkozy made no mention of the EU elections in France, in which an Ipsos poll out Wednesday suggested Marine Le Pen’s FN will come first with 23.5 per cent of the vote, just one point ahead of Mr Sarkozy’s UMP – in the midst of a corruption scandal involving its current leader, Jean-François Copé.
The Socialists are polled to trail in third place, on 17 per cent.
Reacting to the tribune, Miss Le Pen slammed the tribune as “the comedy of repetition”.
“Mr Sarkozy lies all the time. He never respects the commitments he regularly makes before the French.”
Harlem Désir, the Socialist Europe minister, said Mr Sarkozy’s text "paints a severe portrait of ten years of Right-wing politics in Europe and of his own policies."
"Who allowed debt to pile up if not him ?"
But Brice Hortefeux, a Sarkozy loyalist, said his non-partisan approach “reconciles Eurosceptics with those who are for European construction”.
Sylvie Goulard, French centrist Euro MP, said that "Sarkozy is demolishing the existing Europe while saying he loves it".
"To lay into the Schengen accords just three days before the vote is to pay lipservice to the idea there is a foreign threat. It's a clear bid to swipe the FN vote but could end up inciting people to vote for the most radical candidates".
She also warned that his suggestion that France and Germany could take the leadership of the eurozone would go down badly in Berlin. "Why would the Germans, who are at the heart of the 28 EU countries and have managed to optimise their gains from the euro, buy this step backwards?," she asked.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-Sarkozy.html

The specter haunting Europe



By: Patrick J. Buchanan
5/23/2014 08:35 AM

bring alarmist headlines in the elite media about a populist fever raging in Europe, and manifest in the shocking returns from the elections for the European Parliament.
Marine Le Pen’s National Front may run first in France, and Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party first in Britain.
What is happening in Europe?
In his unpublished “Leviathan and Its Enemies,” my late friend Sam Francis wrote of the coming crisis of the “soft managerial state,” of which the European Union is a textbook example.
Oswald Spengler used the word “Civilization” to describe “the terminal phase of a cultural organism,” wrote Francis. In 1941, Pitirim Sorokin described the characteristics of a Spenglerian “Civilization”:
“[C]osmopolitanism and the megalopolis vs. ‘home,’ ‘race,’ ‘blood group’ and ‘fatherland’; scientific irreligion or abstract dead metaphysics instead of the religion of the heart; ‘cold matter-of-factness’ vs. reverence and tradition and respect for age; internationalist ‘society’ instead of ‘my country’ and state (nation); money and abstract values in lieu of earth and real (living) values; ‘mass’ instead of ‘folk’; sex in lieu of motherhood … and so on.”
Between the managerial state and the civilization and culture that preceded it, the polarities are stark.
Yet they mirror the clashes of today as the European Union of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman’s vision exhibits unmistakable symptoms of disintegration and decay.
In a way, this is remarkable.
For undeniably the rise of the EU has coincided with an unprecedented rise in the standard of living for the hundreds of millions from the Atlantic to the Baltic and from the North Sea to the Mediterranean.
Still, though Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Parliament of man” and “Federation of the world” captured the imagination of 19th-and 20th-century one-worlders, the dream has proven incapable of capturing the hearts of European peoples. Who would die for the Brussels bureaucracy?
What are the identifying marks of these populist parties that have sprouted up now in almost every European country?
There is first the rejection of universalism and transnationalism, and a reversion to patriotism and its songs, symbols, holidays, history, myths and legends.
To peoples such as these, the preservation of the separate and unique ethnic and cultural identity of the nation supersedes all claims of supranational organizations, be it the EU or U.N.
This sentiment is reflected not only in fierce resistance to further integration within the EU, but in visceral hostility to further immigration from the Third World, Islamic world or Eastern Europe.
These people want to remain who and what they are.
Even the Swiss last winter voted for an initiative of the People’s Party calling for reintroduction of quotas for immigrants from the EU.
A second telltale sign of the new populism is traditionalism and cultural conservatism, reverence for the religious and cultural history and heritage of the nation and its indigenous people.
That victory in the recent Eurovision contest of Conchita, the bearded transvestite drag queen who performed in a gown, though celebrated by much of the European press, sent a message to millions of traditionalists that this is no longer their culture.
Another aspect of the rising populist right, as the New York Times notes, is a grudging admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Why? Putin not only publicly rejects the moral relativism of the West, under his guidance Russian social legislation is being consciously rooted in traditional Christian concepts of right and wrong.
Putin is the anti-Obama, moving to occupy the cultural-moral vacuum left by America. As we celebrate multiculturalism, LGBT rights, and abortion on demand, Putin repudiates Hollywood values.
When Western politicians and media rail against his annexation of Crimea as a violation of America’s rules-based New World Order, Putin invokes patriotism and nationalism in his defense: Crimea belonged to us for 200 years. Most of its people are Russians. They wish to return to Mother Russia. Our warm-water port is there. Americans do not dictate to Russians where Russia’s vital interests are concerned.
In the anti-American precincts of Europe, they are applauding.
Yet another specter is haunting Europe: secessionism. Scots, Catalans and Venetians wish to declare independence and become again the countries they once were.
As for the epithets used on the populists, that they are racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, fascist, overuse has caused them to lose their toxicity.
The Eurocrats have cried wolf too often.
How serious is this right-wing populism?
At the least, as the Tea Party has pulled the GOP to the right, these parties are likely to pull center and center-right parties in their direction all across Europe.
Then there is the real possibility not only of a breakup of the EU, but of the breakup of the United Kingdom, the loss of Scotland after 300 years, England’s secession from the EU, and the collapse of the Tory Party into Europhiles and Europhobes, all on David Cameron’s watch.
Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/05/2...paign=heupdate

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.

OK, Patrick was reaching, there - and actually seems to be contradicting what he said earlier re returning to a traditional identity and beliefs. That's not boredom, it is dissatisfaction with some of the changes and accomodations which had to be made.
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