With migration back on the agenda for the upcoming EU Summit, what does the @EPPGroup do?

They start parroting the xenophobic narrative of the extreme right.

Walls & fences have never been a solution.

A thread🧵explaining what's at stake at this week's #EUCO 👇🏽

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1623567592194555907

The @EU_Council calls for:

✖️increased external action & shady deals with third countries
✖️returns and readmission

are only ways for the EU to wash its hands of its international responsibilities.

Here our press release on the issue 👇
https://left.eu/european-council-ready-to-eliminate-the-right-to-asylum-in-europe/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1623567595377987585

As Europe struggles with:

📉a post-pandemic slump
💶a cost of living crisis
⚡️high energy bills

those failing to act are using the oldest political trick in the book: deflect & distract.

Europe's scapegoating of migrants IS the crisis.

An explainer 👉🏽 https://left.eu/issues/explainers/deflect-distract-europes-scapegoating-of-migrants-is-the-crisis/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1623567597135441923

@ManonAubryFr @schirdewan @nvillumsen @JPimentaLopes @mmatias_ @sirarego @BlocoDeEsquerda @EnhedslistenEU @lukeming @EuroPodemos “What we need is a humane asylum policy based on solidarity & responsibility-sharing between member states, as well as safe & legal pathways to the EU.

Those seeking protection must be the focus of EU asylum & migration policy.”

@ErnstCornelia explains👉🏽 https://left.eu/issues/explainers/deflect-distract-europes-scapegoating-of-migrants-is-the-crisis/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1623576606324187136

@ManonAubryFr @schirdewan @nvillumsen @JPimentaLopes @mmatias_ @sirarego @BlocoDeEsquerda @EnhedslistenEU @lukeming @EuroPodemos @ErnstCornelia @dieLinkeEP @TNInstitute @Border_Violence @seawatch_intl @RosaluxEuropa @areyousyrious @ARDIEuroParl @ENAREurope @migrants_rights @ecre Following our request @EP_Justice sent a letter to the @EU_Commission calling on @YlvaJohansson to defend the fundamental rights of people on the move.

The letter makes particular referenc…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1623577921964191759