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Europe Spins Apart

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October 25, 2024
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With long-time open border advocate Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk having recently declared his plan to suspend the right to asylum for anyone arriving from Belarus, Tim Black considers the internal pressures mounting within the EU to maintain a common border policy. “The Brussels regime is struggling to hold itself together,” he writes in Spiked.

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