Marcus Pretzell: A European dilemma

The Czech Republic and Slovakia, Romania and Hungary naturally all belong to Europe. Whether they need to be part of the European Union is also a tricky question. The EU would have been even more dreary if it had not expanded eastwards in 2004 and 2007. Worldly Benelux bureaucrats and megalomaniac hardline Europeans would have hardly met with resistance to their plans for a European super-state, if there had not been men like Viktor Orban or Robert Fico, who follow their intuition and listen to the will of their people.

The real Europe today are all those countries that have suffered for decades under a socialist regime. And it would be nice in parts if they had the power to reform the EU according to their wishes. But they do not. This power lies in the hands of the Junckers and Schulzes, the Eurocrats in the Brussels ivory towers, those who want to mould the EU into a single state to lord it over at will, just as a Central Committee of the Communist Party, the CPSU once decided over the fate of the Soviet Union.

The Poles and the Czechs reject this, and rightly so. They no longer want to join the euro, because they see bailed-out countries where preoccupations with care are more widespread than performance. The Hungarians and Slovaks do not want to accept any Muslim refugees. Because they do not want terrorist attacks as  in Paris or sexual assaults as in Cologne. The fact that we allowed more than a million Muslims to enter into Germany illegally because we are not brave enough to protect our borders, is most regrettable. We cannot, however, compensate for this weakness by disciplining our Eastern neighbors to once again accept a vision – or rather a hallucination – ours this time, of a multicultural Europe.

As during the eurocrisis, the Eurocrats discovered a “redistribution mechanism” in the refugee crisis to cushion against the failure of the German government. According to this view, an allocation formula, based on population size and gross domestic product, unemployment rate and asylum figures, determines how many asylum seekers an EU country has to take in from other EU countries. For each migrant accepted, 6000 euros are paid. States which protect their borders and do not offer false incentives to increase poverty, are forced to accept the low-skilled, violent immigrants. They are supposed to bring culture conflict into the country for a paltry few euros.

The EU distributes illegal immigrants from countries that are battling the Islamist onslaught, into countries that are defending their identity. As much as one would like to live in a united Europe with the proud, industrious Eastern Europeans, the EU can no longer be reformed into this Europe. And if the Europeans in the East want to leave the EU, we should let them go. We should actually heed their example, instead of making them pay for our Chancellor’s mistakes.