“It is appalling hypocrisy for the authorities to speak of protecting children whilst denying them rights to family reunion due to their immigration and residence status.”
On the doldrums in which the Italian Left has languished for many years, and the new democratic energies which have emerged in a strange and novel form in the country over the last few weeks.
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has become the lowest common denominator for rightwing populist politics in many of the 28 member states.
The European Parliament’s conflation of Soviet Communism and Nazi-Fascism, says more about the present paranoia surrounding populism than it does about the past. This distortion of history should be of grave concern for democrats across the political spectrum.
“Crimes reported in 2017 are down by more than 10 percent compared to 2016, while murders have almost halved in ten years, from 611 to 343. Despite this, there is a general sense of insecurity."
While in Italy for my PhD fieldwork examining the interaction between separated children and the Italian migration regime as they transition to adulthood, the far-right coalition government was elected.
Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us the irresistible fall of the establishment?
