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Danish Prime Minister Mette-Frederiksen, a centre-left politician who rose to power with a platform decrying mass immigration, told members of her parliament that Europe is facing an existential threat from “people who sympathize with some of the darkest forces in the world.”
The Washington Examiner reports her as saying that, “If we talk about the undemocratic forces, yes, then Russia is our biggest enemy. The problem is that a major enemy has started to grow from within, and it is foreigners who have come to Europe. It is Hamas supporters. It is people who commit terror against European societies. It is people who do not recognize our fundamental European values.”
“So Europe is threatened,” she continued. “The problem is that we are threatened both from outside and from within […] Because of people with an Islamic background who do not want the open, free European society. Unfortunately.”
Last month, approximately 72,000 Moroccan migrants stormed through borders and swam across bodies of water to enter Ceuta, which is a part of Spain located on the northern tip of Africa. These invaders were reportedly inspired by social media rumours that the border between Morocco and Spain was open.
Meanwhile, multiple European leaders, including Frederiksen and Georgia Meloni of Italy, called for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Area earlier this month until its migration system can be normalized and secured. Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantanen made such a demand, saying Spain “completely failed” to protect the EU’s borders. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis suggested the same.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, an avowed socialist who has penned op-eds in US publications about how the “West needs migrants,” has condemned the critical responses from his fellow EU member states. He called the idea of penalizing Spain over the invasion “selfish, polarizing and unlawful” at a time when the nation most needs help.
