Where the EU is failing, in the first instance, is to differentiate very publicly between genuine refugees and everyone else. Recent figures show just one in five migrants are Syrians fleeing civil war. “Everyone else” includes not just those from Africa or Asia who are simply looking for a welfare state to settle down in, but those from the Middle East posing as refugees who are returning to Europe to engage in acts of terrorist murder. Our security services are, we are told, on that particular case, but their task is hardly made easier by the enormous flood of which the potential terrorists are a part, and which the EU’s flaccidity (and refusal to end the open borders of the outdated Schengen agreement) encourages.
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