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The european dilemma: consequences of the new migration on european security and defence
(IUM, 2016) Cerqueira, José Miguel de Carvalho
European Union is experiencing its greatest dilemma since setting out on its project. With
human rights, democracy and freedom as its political and constitutional identity, EU has been
forced to reconsider its strategies in order to defend itself and protect its citizens. Politicians
continue to alter the local, regional and communitarian legal system, placing legal barriers
– and much more – before non-EU immigrants. This puts the community’s ethos (θɒsː θoʊs)
at jeopardy and the fear of the other is changing irreversibly the acquis communautaire, the
legal corpus that has taken years to create. The panic and weakness of our political leaders has
not reassured the people, nor there has been any evidence of reason or dignity in the search
for solutions. The extreme reaction has weakened us all and has also undermined European
Union’s political aspirations to be a major global player. The difficulty of assimilating a large
number of migrants with strong cultural identities of their own, who share a different religion
from the majority of the native population, also presents a challenge to unity. They are
accustomed to an anthropological political dialectic of dominated/dominant that is different
from the European Union reality. Marginalisation and social exclusion will only increase as
a result of the lack of assimilation policies as will xenophobia. Radical political changes will
follow these social facts.