EU border policy in action: the EU supports "non EU partners" in keeping migrants out the bloc.
don't watch if you're not in a good place.
THis is one of 1000s of documented instances. Far right elements in the Croatian border police (Croatia has a massive razor wre fence with Bosnia) are off the leash. The high
profile and embarrassing deportation of two Nigerian athletes in Croatia legitimately for a competition in late 2019, the tip of the iceberg.
One can only assume that well fed Europeans in 500 euro angora jumpers either don't know about this, or it's a minority who know about it and look the other way.
A far right populist
Croat government is also colluding with Republika Srpska / Serbia proper and the OHR in Bosnia to destabilise the country and hive off territory with the tacit collusion of the EU and US. Hungary is the local, active and enthusiastic facilitator of this, being a hater of migrants and Muslims, yet somehow still in the EU. Presumably tossing out that fat prick Orban and his gang of elected fascists is just too much trouble.
I'm aware that the UK is currently "world-leading" in hateful policy towards migrants but nothing the EU is doing on this topic makes me feel re-joining is a desirable or worthwhile outcome here.
The thing is, this ground cannot hold and everyone knows it. The climate emergency is accelerating and within a few years enormous numbers of people will be seeking sanctuary in countries that human life can be sustained in. If the EU doesn't tear down the barbed wire fences, these desperate folk will. But in order for policy to be reversed the far right has to be confronted, defeated, the likes of Orban, Cović, Plenković need to be rotting in prison where they belong.
This latter is a fever dream unfortunately. Europe will continue to drift, squabbling and rudderless, into irrelevance, as the gap between its rhetorcial pieties and far right actions widen.