Europe Doesn’t Owe Migrants Fairness | Foreign Policy

If Europe is to survive both as a coherent institution and as an embodiment of the liberal values of the Enlightenment, it will do so only by resisting the universalism of the left as much as the nativism of the right… And I do not believe that a European community of 500 million is incapable of integrating several million more refugees, even in an era of slow growth. Politically, however, it’s impossible. Right-wing parties are on the rise in every country (though not only because of the refugee issue). The only way to fulfill Europe’s moral obligations without destroying Europe’s liberal foundations is to limit refugee status to those who truly qualify for it.

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