“We now know you can reside anywhere within the EU by purchasing a passport from the Maltese government. We also know that the route into the EU for Moldovans is an easily acquired Romanian passport. Ditto for Bosnian Croats, via Zagreb. Then there is the amnesty granted by the Spanish government to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, the first step towards Spanish citizenship and the right to EU-wide residence. Spain snd Italy also freely hand out citizenship to Latin Americans of Spanish or Italian descent.  Then there are the EU states most geographically exposed to illegal immigrants. They demand EU-wide burden-sharing”. (Part of a letter from Yugo Kovach, Winterborne Houghton, Dorset, England)

You’ve seen nothing yet.  The current  problem of migrants is bound to increase exponentially as the effects of climate change and ever-growing population become more pressing. Politicians won’t even talk about the rate of population growth, partly because it suits business interests and because it is literally an article of faith, christian and muslim.   So we are destined to live with desperate people fleeing joblessness, tribalism, civil strife and lack of food and water.  It has been inevitable since climate change became a factual reality. The good news is that the migrants are enterprising.

If this is all so, I can see no alternative but to build decent, civilized “villages” in which to to put the migrants, placing these proportionately throughout the EU ( burden sharing), offering security, food and water, education and language skills in return for some form of paid work, such as making clothing, which already mostly comes from overseas.  This is intended to be humane and Epicurean. But is it fair, reasonable and practical, and do we have time to do it?   It’s a huge undertaking, but  No one else seems to have any ideas.  Keeping them all out is not going to work.  What would you do were you an EU politician?