I am old enough to remember when Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-left prime minister, was being described by overexcited Gutmenschen as Europe’s “real” leader, an honorary title last held by Angela Merkel.
Twenty-two European prime ministers signed a letter over the weekend correctly (if implicitly) linking the migrant swarming of Ceuta to Sánchez’s irresponsible immigration amnesty.
One passage reads:
We have a duty to effectively deter and relentlessly combat illegal migration, by coordinating our action, strengthening our external borders and addressing all policies that can serve as pull factors, such as the regularization of [a] very large number of irregular migrants.
Are all of these leaders “far right?”
If this report in The Telegraph is correct, the level of trust that Europe’s leaders have in Sánchez has sunk to astonishingly low (or, to word that in a different way, appropriate) levels:
Sources told The Telegraph that the Spanish prime minister has been asked to share verified figures for the number of migrants returned to Morocco after the initial influx.
The demand demonstrates doubt over Madrid’s claim that most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into the exclave last week had already crossed back over the border.
To be fair, I don’t think many of those European prime ministers doubt that the majority of the migrants have returned to Morocco. They do doubt, however, that quite so many of them have gone as has been claimed.
Strange, that.
As a reminder, Pedro Sánchez is a keen advocate of online censorship.
Strange, that.