Anti-immigrant Winds in Europe

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the UK could learn much from Athens’ hardline policies on migration.

A spread of the Israel-Gaza conflict into Egypt would be very dangerous because Egypt “has a very big population, Greece’s Migration Minister Dmitris Kairidis said at an Ankara meeting.

Europe must be vigilant to the risk of a new refugee crisis, Mr Kairidis said, needing “better guarding of borders, combating criminal networks of smugglers, returns for those who do not get asylum”.

As the war deepens Europe’s desire to outsource asylum problems to the other side of the Mediterranean, nationalist voices have seized on Islamist elements coming to the fore in some pro-Palestinian protests.