Immigration security

Europe’s identity crisis

But the refugee crisis is a more concrete threat, as it directly impacts every European country, town and village. Unlike with the trouble in Greece and Ukraine, refugees are not abstract or far away, and they are a particular challenge to countries that have ethnically based identities and definitions of citizenship.

This sudden flood of refugees appears at a time when the golden years of economic growth are in the past and globalization seems to be undermining European prosperity and the social welfare state. Religion and the Church are no longer the anchors they once were. The European Union and its bureaucracy in technocratic Brussels seem beyond national control, but still want to impose refugee quotas on every member state.