Europe plans to introduce tighter border controls in the coming weeks in a bid to block illegal migration, identified by the United States as a major risk factor in terrorism threat here.
German Federal Interior Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble said the country is using its presidency of the E.U. to improve operational capability of Frontex, the European Border Management Agency, to tighten security at the bloc’s external borders.
The agency will be expanded to comprise up of 450 experts drawn from all 27 E.U. member states, and permanent coast patrols network will operate in the Mediterranean and Atlantic from late May.
“Today we have succeeded in making another important step to protect the common external sea frontiers in the south,” Schäuble said.
But it’s not just European governments that stink of hypocrisy here:
The State Department has voiced concerns that Germany’s open borders with its European neighbors and the illegal immigration into some of these countries will facilitate the entry of terrorist groups into the country.
Yet, this is the same U.S. State Department that is trying to undermine nationalist political parties in Europe that want to do something about immigration and (hence) Muslim terrorism. What’s worse is that State is supporting Muslim groups within Europe to head off the white nationalist parties.
