National Responses — and Responsible Nationalists?

by the editor

Of great interest is the Commission’s opening of the possibility of renegotiating the Dublin II Agreement, something the Danish presidency has completely rejected, and which they reiterated at today’s press conference. The Greeks meanwhile must be almost ecstatic, as they are currently left holding the bag due to Dublin II. The Germans, true to form, where mostly concerned with costs, and where delighted to be promised that all could be financed within existing budgets (I’ll believe that when I see it). The ‘no more immigrants’-one-trick-ponies in the Alliance of European Nationalists Movements, represented by Front National’s Bruno Gollnisch (France), and British National Party’s Nick Griffin, where remarkably well behaved at the press conference. They confined themselves to polite questions of how the proposal could ‘protect’ EU countries against immigrants but otherwise they were almost unnoticeable. Still, as Churchill once said: ‘This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning’.