Call for an International Panel on Migration and Asylum

[bgmt]

Call for an International Panel on Migration and Asylum to guide European policies and global migration governanceThis text seems to me entirely adequate. It addresses real long-term issues, it does not give easy solutions, it calls just for opening one's eyes and seeing that there is a problem that cannot be addressed on a short-term basis. One

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[gomberg]

The panel shall, I presume, be convened at Evian?

[bgmt]

Why? I do not understand the reason for this, I presume, sardonic remark.

[gomberg]

You are not the target of my sad attempt at wit. It is, mostly, just a reflection of my general despair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évian_Conference

[bgmt]

Yes, I know about the Evian conference. But I see no similarity. Solving the migration problem is an essential need (whether understood or not) of today's powers. Solving the Jewish problem was not at all considered as something essential. No one would believe then what would happen to Jews, and no one would believe that this would become THE issue after the war

[gomberg]

I am afraid, they will resolve the "problem" by means neither of us would consider either civilized or acceptable. Of course, for the following few decades everybody will be swearing that "never again" and laying flowers to tasteful memorials. Then it will happen again.