European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, on Tuesday admonished France to comply with European law in its treatment with migrants who have been forced to leave France. A commission document said last week that France failed to abide by European legislation which is designed to assure bloc’s citizens of free movement and each E.U member is asked to adopted this law to its legislation. However, the result in France was “not satisfactory”. The expulsions would be legal only when certain conditions were met. The number of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma that has been expelled so far is over 8,300. Some left willingly after they got paid. The commissioner guarantee to set up a Roma Task Force to report and analyze how European governments are helping the Roma become integrated. Roma is the largest ethnic minority group in the European Union, with a population of 10 to 12 million. A survey in 2009 showed that half of all Roma respondents had been discriminated in the year before and one-fifth the victim of a racially motivated crime.
France is considered as one of the most democratic countries in the world, and it shouldn’t have exercise expulsion of Roma within its territory. Besides, France has agreed European legislation, so it must do its best to abide by the law to assure every life of his or her prosperity, even if that person is from a minority group. It is necessary for the commissioner to intervene in this situation, since France is less likely to stop the expulsion. What the commissioner has to do is not only to ask its members to help Roma integrate, but also to take strong step to require France to be cooperative. Otherwise, European legislation would lose its place, and there’s no need to build up the legislation.
This reaction of the EU is, in my opinion, completely absurd .Yes, for sure, it sound good to say that everybody got the right to go where ever he wants whenever he wants but (common!), we got to be realist. France already got its own problems to solve with its citizen. There are a lot of French people (I mean people with the French citizenship) who live in parks, under brigs and so on. So France got to take care of his own problems first before thinking at the EU ones.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't make much sense to me that Roma has anything to do with France or the EU problems. I mean, as migrants they also have rights and the decision of stay or not in France with the opportunities that that country gives. However, if there is a new mandatory rule for migrants and they really have to leave French territory then the EU or France should give them some new destination and help them to integrate to another country. They are not only numbers or unemployed man and women, they are human beings that have rights that should be respected in every country.
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