Expanded Erasmus Programme Could Bring Economic Migrants, Terrorist Threat to Europe

Expanded Erasmus Programme Could Bring Economic Migrants, Terrorist Threat to Europe

The European Commission has put forward a proposal to extend the Erasmus programme and Horizon Europe scientific cooperation scheme to the Middle East and North Africa. Experts say this opening is far from without risks, as students from some countries may not come to Europe with the pure intention of studying.

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The initiative, referred to as a new Mediterranean Pact, would allow students from Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Israel, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Egypt to participate in the programme.

This proposal effectively grants a one-way ticket to Europe for every “student” from these countries who receives permission to enter the European Union under the Erasmus framework, according to the Brussels Signal. The outlet emphasized that

these students are unlikely to come because of European “values”, but like many of the fake asylum seekers of the past decade, are likely to be economic migrants. There is also the risk that, instead of studying, they may simply be seeking a visa.

The “Pact for the Mediterranean”, the European Commission’s new initiative, is spearheaded by Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The pact declares that Mediterranean countries – meaning the European Union and the “Southern Neighbourhood” countries of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia – all share “one sea, one pact, and one future.”

However, many questions arise regarding this pact. Firstly, it hardly qualifies as a “pact”, as no country apart from the EU has actually signed it. Moreover, the text begins with a footnote: Palestine is marked with an asterisk, and a note clarifies that this does not constitute recognition of a Palestinian state.

The framers of the pact – in other words, the Brussels bureaucrats who drafted it – seem to believe that the European Union shares “one future” with its southern neighbours. To this end, they are officially allowing these countries to join the Erasmus programme. Yet many of these nations, some of which are predominantly Islamic, do not truly believe they share “one future” with the West.
Students Could Enter Europe Unchecked from Countries Posing Terror Threats
At the same time, some countries, such as Libya, do not even have functioning governments, which means there will be no effective way to vet students arriving from there.
If someone enters a Western country on a student visa, it is very difficult to deport them.
The Trump administration also faced challenges when it tried to expel those who had lied about their green cards or openly supported terrorism, like the case of Mohammad Khalil, who has been issued a deportation order in mid-September, yet still has not left the country.
In Europe, too, deporting fake asylum seekers has proven nearly impossible. In one case, a man claimed he had to flee Afghanistan to Austria because of a “blood feud”. Although he lost his case at the European Court of Justice, he remains in Austria.
Brussels has opened its doors to dangerous countries precisely at a time when a growing number of Europeans are beginning to realise that mass migration is an outdated concept, and that many newcomers do not wish to assimilate but rather to replace local culture with their own.
The era of allowing mass inflows of asylum seekers is over, yet the globalist coterie in Brussels cannot let go of this idea.
They appear to believe deeply that the West has “a shared future” with these newcomers, and that if they simply persist with the same approach, they will succeed, and the new migrants will eventually assimilate.
Brussels is now using the Erasmus programme to advance this vision. Named after the Christian theologian Erasmus, the programme has done more to unite Europeans and foster a pan-European identity that goes beyond mere coexistence on the continent than most of Brussels’ other grand ideas, wrote the Brussels Signal.
The Erasmus programme was developed in the 1980s by a woman named Sofia Corradi, who sought to make it easier for European students to have their degrees and credits recognised across the continent. Corradi’s dream, launched in 1987 by the European Economic Community – the EU’s predecessor – has since enabled 16 million Europeans to study in other European countries.

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