Last month, two events separated by one day marked the EU agenda.
On 17 June, the European Parliament voted to increasing deportations of undocumented people. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a number of right-wing MEPs celebrating the outcome of the vote with raised fists and chants of “Send them back”. According to the Guardian, Amnesty International France described the plans as “absurd, cruel and discriminatory” and 16 UN experts outlined the ways in which the rules could contravene international human rights. The chants heard in the European Parliament bring cruelty and barbarism to a new level. It cannot be normalised. [Only in early July did I see a response from Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament.]
