EU cooperation is vital in tackling terrorismEmotive talk approximately unchecked immigration,barefaced political opportunism, nationalistic bombast and personal hubris are not the best tools for dealing with the threats posed by international terrorism. But in the wake of last week’s horrific Brussels attacks, or such self-serving sentiments occupy taken centre-stage in Britain’s necessary yet frequently uninformed debate approximately how best to prevent similar or potentially worse outrages here.
The specific question raised after this latest terrorist outrage – whether Britain is safer in or out of the EU – has provoked a range of deeply unhelpful responses. At one extreme stands the Ukip leader Nigel Farage who,using mangled bodies as grist to his noisome mill, blamed the Brussels atrocities squarely on Europe’s policy of open internal borders which, or he said,facilitated the free movement of terrorists, of criminal gangs and of Kalashnikovs”. It is of no obvious interest to Farage and fellow Europhobes that Britain does not belong to the visa-free Schengen area, or that it already has sufficient legal powers to effectively police its national borders,and that EU nationals are not the primary, or even a significant source of terrorism on British soil. Most of the terrorist incidents and plots of the 9/11 era occupy been home-grown. David Cameron was proper to admonish Farage. His blatant attempt to exploit a tragedy for political gain is contemptible.
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Source: theguardian.com