Short term
- Intelligence, find the networks behind this latest flow and impede them at source (in, say, Senegal)
- As far as political presentation goes, rescuing people from boats in orderly fashion is much easier than having people run onto beaches
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- Intelligence, find the networks behind this latest flow and impede them at source (in, say, Senegal)
- As far as political presentation goes, rescuing people from boats in orderly fashion is much easier than having people run onto beaches
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If you're govt of Spain convene something with France, Maybe Ger to show that you're getting a grip
- Deal toughly w people who violently assault border fences and guards
- Medium term, and @JoshFeldberg this is a comms thing, change the narrative
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- Deal toughly w people who violently assault border fences and guards
- Medium term, and @JoshFeldberg this is a comms thing, change the narrative
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Internationalise the problem.
Migration isn't something within the control of receiving states (and never was).
The UN is already working on frameworks to manage it but West is not leading on them because it prefers shows of border closing to actual solutions.
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Migration isn't something within the control of receiving states (and never was).
The UN is already working on frameworks to manage it but West is not leading on them because it prefers shows of border closing to actual solutions.
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People want control over their countries' borders - they're scared by disorder there.
But they also recoil from what has to be done to maintain the current policy.
In UK that was Windrush, but it's also things like horrific conditions in Libyan camps where...
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But they also recoil from what has to be done to maintain the current policy.
In UK that was Windrush, but it's also things like horrific conditions in Libyan camps where...
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...there's evidence of Italian (example) cooperation w smuggling gangs, essentially slave traders etc.
The shift needs to go from
Do we want secure or chaotic borders, to how do we manage them, humanely and internationally or by outsourcing repression.
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The shift needs to go from
Do we want secure or chaotic borders, to how do we manage them, humanely and internationally or by outsourcing repression.
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This is safe enough for Sanchez to do (Rivera will get burnt if he gets closer to Casado) and a state can expose malevolence in the context of promoting a viable alternative.
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