It was bound to happen. Europe’s hard right has embraced the Union’s transnational petition system to advance one of its most radical ideas: remigration.
The European Citizens’ Initiative allows one million citizens across at least seven member states to ask the European Commission to propose legislation.
The “Save Europe Act” calls for a moratorium on “non-Western” migration channels, including study and family-reunification visas, and the “remigration” not only of irregular migrants but of wider categories of non-European migrants whose continued presence it says burdens member states.
The commission swiftly refused registration.
It found that the initiative’s distinction between “Western” and “non-Western” migrants amounted to racial and ethnic discrimination and was manifestly contrary to EU values.
