By trying to cut off support for the far right, the European centre is normalising their extreme policies
government opens to an ominous soundtrack. A man the footage claims is a migrant, who has just made it over the border into the central European state, is seen holding a long wooden plank.
The short video dramatically pauses for a number of close-ups showing border guards with cuts on their arms and damaged patrol cars. The message – delivered with the subtlety of a cement truck reversing around a corner – is thatTrump’s Panama Canal seizure threat revives memories of 1989 US invasion’s far-right government circulated the video to Brussels-based journalists last year, the footage was privately mocked as a low-budget stab at anti-immigrant propaganda.
Orban, who has been in power in Hungary since 2010, is the most hard-line of the EU’s national leaders when it comes to migration. His response to the large numbers of people fleeing the Middle East and elsewhere to Europe in 2015 was to crack down. Poland has been accused of pushing migrants back across the border into Belarus, breaching laws to guard asylum seekers from being sent somewhere they could be at risk.EU and Nato states accuse Russian and Belarusian authorities of flying asylum seekers in from Africa and the Middle East, then transporting them to the borders of EU states and helping them get across. In response, Tusk plans to suspend the right of people coming from Belarus to claim asylum.
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