PARIS — If Europe’s mainstream leaders don’t own the migration issue, the Continent’s populists will.
Sadly, that’s exactly what’s happening. Deadlocked on reforming the EU’s dysfunctional asylum policies, most mainstream centrist leaders are ducking the one big pan-European issue ahead of May’s European Parliament election.
Those that are talking about migration are busy trying to sound as tough as far-right migrant-bashers like Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and France’s Marine Le Pen.
There’s only one winner at that game — especially since European parliamentary elections attract protest voters bent on giving the establishment a kicking, while apathetic moderates …read more
Source: European Voice
