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Although Germany seems adamant on continuing to take in large swathes of foreign nationals, other nations in Europe now appear to be getting less keen, with much of the EU starting to inch rightwards on the issue of border controls.
Many representatives are now even backing the idea of putting up fences along the union’s borders, with a meeting in Brussels on Friday seeing some national lawmakers voice support for increasing spending on measures aimed at keeping migrants out.the leftist leader as comparing the plan to put up border fortifications to U.S. President Donald Trump’s unfinished Mexico border wall.
Scholz seems to now hold a minority opinion within the bloc, however, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressing a desire to see the EU tighten restrictions on inward migration.How successful such a clampdown will actually be remains to be seen, with many parts of the Union seeing aIreland is Full: Open Borders Government Takes to Twitter to Beg Migrants to Stay Away
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