The news that the Belgian government has introduced a law which expels immigrants if they remain unemployed for longer than six months after arriving in the country might signal a change in classical European liberalism.
The move, made by a government which was one of the foremost critics of Austria’s Freedom Party when the latter group formed a coalition government in the central European state a few years ago—will see the withdrawal of residency rights from any newcomers remaining unemployed for six months after arriving in the country.
The crackdown is being seen as a huge turnaround for the country that is home to many EU institutions and was previously seen as one of the most welcoming nations in Europe for migrants.
Many of the migrants being turfed out of Belgium are thought to have moved there from Spain in response to the worsening Spanish recession.
Some are understood to have originally migrated to Spain from Latin America.
Meanwhile in France, Interior Minister Manuel Valls has announced significant changes in the country’s migration policy.
The new rules will reduce financial assistance to immigrants as of March this year. One of the main provisions of the new immigration rules in France is the reduction of unemployment benefits.
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, in the second half of 2010, France was home to over five million migrant workers, or about 8 percent of the total population.
The largest number of migrants arriving in France, according to the data for 2007, was from Algeria, Morocco and Portugal.
With a growing number of migrants, mainly from Muslim countries, France is experiencing many internal problems. They include rising unemployment and crime, and increasingly greater sums of money from the state treasury spent on support of migrants and their families, which has a detrimental effect on the economy.
Many migrants, especially those from Arab countries-former colonies of France, are used to living on government subsidies.
Of course none of these measures will ultimately solve the issue of the ethnic cleansing of European people from Belgium or France—as the already present non-white populations are large enough to outbreed the indigenous Europeans within two generations.
Only a far more radical solution can save these nations from extinction—we can only hope that the new moves are but a precursor to what must happen if European civilization is to be saved.