A Turkish police officer stands next to the body of the young boy. Photograph: Reuters
EU values in action.
It is an existential question. Is the EU its proclaimed values or its actual behaviour?
Immigrants, after all, are, by definition, “bad”. Refugees from countries democratised by the EU (among others) don’t exist. To seek sanctuary in the EU, asylum seekers should be able to prove that they face execution from wherever they fled.
A Turkish police officer carries a young boy who drowned in a failed attempt to sail to the Greek island of Kos. Photograph: Reuters
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