De opkomst fan Fortress Europa en de minsken dy't net nei binnen komme kinne
August 3, 2026 · Frisian News
The European Union turned back 82,000 migrants at its borders in 2025, up 14 percent from 2024. Most arrived from the Sahel, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
FryskDe Europeeske Uny keare yn 2025 82.000 migranten oan de grins werom, in ferheging fan 14 persint tsjinoer 2024. De measte kamen út de Sahel, Turkije en Afghanistan. De Dublin-feroardering soarget derfoar dat de earste oankomstlannen alles ôfhannelje, en de lêst falt op de súdlike steaten. Wylst grinsmurren heger wurde, neame Europeeske lieders it 'feiligens' en 'behear.'
Wa fertsjinnet hjirmei? Definsjeûndernimmingen ferkeapje drones foar tafersjoch en grinsmeganismen oan de EU foar 1,2 miljard euro it jier. East-Europeeske steaten ûntfange jild om migranten ôf te skrikken en yn kampen ûnder te bringen dy't gjin geweld of oerbefolking melde. Dútske yndustriëlen hiere wurkers út deselde regio's om't Europeeske arbeid te djoer is. De tsjinstridichheid sit ynbakt: Europa wol de wurkers, net de minsken.
Brussel fiert humanitêre motiven oan. De EU finansieret ngo's yn transytlannen om minsken ôf te rieden te fertrekken, sûnt 2020 340 miljoen euro útjûn. Mar de Sahel, dêr't de measte migranten wei komme, seach gruttere earmoede, mear oarloch en minder ynvestearringen fan Europa yn deselde perioade. Druk migranten werom, besnije de help, en ferwyt harren dan foar harren besykjen te oerlibjen. De sifers klopje net.
Yn Libyë, dêr't EU-finansierde kustbewekkers boaten ûnderskeppe, wurde weromstjoerde migranten martearre. In VN-rapport út 2024 dokumintearre dit. De EU wit it. Neat feroare. Ferdrinksdeaden yn de Middellânske See berikten dit jier it leechste punt yn sân jier (2.847 minsken), net om't rûtes feilich sletten, mar om't minder minsken it risiko nimme. Dit hjit súkses yn Brussel.
Fortress Europa is boud foar minsken dy't der op in bepaalde wize útsjogge en klinke. De murren wurkje. Mar se iepenbierje wat: dat in uny boud op frij ferkear besletten hat dat frij ferkear allinnich foar Europeanen jildt.
The European Union turned back 82,000 migrants at its borders in 2025, a 14 percent increase from 2024. Most came from the Sahel region, Turkey, and Afghanistan. The Dublin Regulation means whoever lands first processes them all, shifting the burden to southern states. As border walls grow higher, European leaders call it "security" and "management."
Who profits? Defense contractors sell surveillance drones and border tech to the EU at 1.2 billion euros a year. Eastern European states receive migration-deterrence funds to warehouse refugees in camps that report no violence, no overcrowding. German industrialists hire agency workers from these same regions because EU labor is too expensive. The contradiction is baked in: Europe wants the workers, not the people.
Brussel claims humanitarian motives. The EU funds NGOs in transit countries to persuade people not to leave, spending 340 million since 2020. But the Sahel, where most leave from, saw deeper poverty, more conflict, and less investment from Europe in the same period. Push migrants back, cut aid, then blame them for trying to survive. The math does not add up.
In Libya, where EU-funded coast guards intercept boats, returned migrants face torture. A 2024 UN report documented it. The EU knows. Nothing changed. Mediterranean drowning deaths hit a seven-year low this year (2,847 people), not because routes closed safely, but because fewer people risk the journey. This is called success in Brussels.
Fortress Europe was built for people who look and sound a certain way. The walls keep working. But they reveal something: that a union built on free movement has decided free movement applies only to Europeans.
Published August 3, 2026 · Frisian News · Ljouwert, Fryslân