The ideological correlation but also the-no accident-time “coordination” between the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum (which proposes “security” and expulsion-releases), and the anti-immigration policies of US President Donald Trump. Metzandra, known for the theoreticalization of concepts related to immigration.
The deportations and refunds contained in the European Commission proposed by the European Commission, which will replace the existing return directive, aiming to create a more effective and faster common system for expulsion-references (or in the first country-see: Greece and other countries first) Particularly the Italian intellectual. The fact that the aim is mainly to increase the rate of return (currently at 20%) by Metzandra considers that he is hiding serious risks to human rights violations.
On June 11, the European Commission published a report, calling for intensification of efforts to adopt the new pact Member States, which must have been incorporated into national law by 12 June 2026-Greece is expected in Greece by the competent ministry.
“What we are watching in Europe is part of the world landscape”emphasizes the Italian academic. “I find it necessary to associate it with the massive pogroms of immigrants and their deportations in the last month in the US. It is a global turn, linked to a return to militarism and the general rise of the far -right »continues the intellectual who has also joined the French philosopher Etienne Balibar in collective editions on issues raised by immigration.
‘There is a risk of re -emerging refugee structures out of control’
What is your comment on the new European Migration and Asylum Pact, for which the EU’s fundamental rights report warns that “raises some risks to fundamental rights, which are largely linked to the speed of the border”?
“It builds the general framework in which deportations become easier. And, in a way, they become a kind of normal “measure”. It is of course necessary to consider the movements of individual member states, such as Italy that suggests the externalization of the expulsion business in Albania. “
Can this be adopted more widely as European policy?
“There is such a medium -term or even long -term trend in Europe. But we need to understand the new shifts in general. And to realize that we live not the end of globalization, but a different kind of global context characterized by militarism in general, “war regimes” and wars. In such a context, the shift against immigrants and refugees is central. “
What can be the result of deportations in the first entrance country, as in Greece?
“It’s hard to answer, but we have experiences from the recent past. There is a risk of reappearing, in a plural number, out -of -control refugee structures like Moria in Lesvos ».
‘The far -right is a kind of general European trend’
Where is the general international shift in favor of deportations?
“The far -right is playing a catalytic role in Europe, which is not only pushing in Germany and France. In Portugal, the Chega far -right party in recent elections exceeded 20%. In Romania until the last minute, the capture of a far -right candidate was played by Trump was “played”. The government coalition collapsed in the Netherlands after the departure of the far -right partners, who were blackmailed to hardening the migration.
So we see that the far -right is a kind of general European trend. What does social democracy do? It assimilates the tools of the far -right to halt its dynamics. So in Germany we see that the far -right, although not in the government, is shaping government policies.
But the experience of the last two decades has shown that the Social Democrats who tried to imitate the far -right, for example in Italy, paid a high price. Voters prefer the original to the substitute. There is another parameter that led to the anti -immigration turn.
Trump and the lamentation of tramping. We are finally observing the coordination between the rise of the far -right and the anti -immigration tendencies in Europe and the second Trump government that strengthens the far -right on both banks of the Atlantic. “.
‘We need a movement against the philopermic atmosphere»
What could be the “antidote” to the trends you are describing?
“New social forces and forms of resistance that will be able to challenge trampism internationally. There is no other way. Otherwise, the Europe we knew would collapse. It must lead these forces a powerful movement against war, first of all, which means not only against the war in Ukraine and against the Genocide in Gaza, but also against the philop -war atmosphere that characterizes the current context.
I am optimistic. I believe we will be able to build such a social and political power. Which may be able to rely on the forces that already exist in Europe. “
