19 December 2019
"In a Greek refugee camp, adults are being stabbed or raped, while children freeze. This suffering shames our continent."
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Europe is home to a grave humanitarian crisis – but Brussels looks the other way (Guardian, link):
"The lack of a proper processing system has created a state of dreadful limbo, where people live in horrendous conditions without an end in sight. Some have been waiting more than two years to receive news about their asylum application.(...)
How could I be proud to be European – or even worse, proud to be a European representative – when I am standing idly by while people are dying avoidably, right here in Europe? The very place that pledges to become a leader in digital technology is also the continent that allows people to starve and die only five hours from Brussels."
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