Trade, aid and visas are increasingly conditional on helping Europe stem migration
their past imperial behaviour might entitle former colonies to compensation, Europeans like to change the subject by pointing to their generous overseas-development budgets. The continent is home to some of the world’s biggest foreign-aid programmes; a handful of European Union members even meet the aspiration that rich countries should spend 0.7% of their national income on alleviating global poverty.
A schism has long been evident. On the one hand, illegal migration is seen as a problem, and politicians know that “stopping the boats” will keep them in office. On the other, Europeans see themselves as a force for good in the world, happily trading and diplomatically allying with countries far and wide. For decades the two worlds were kept separate.
But countries far beyond Europe’s shores are also being coerced into helping bring down migrant numbers. Every year around 400,000 foreigners are ordered to leave the, often having arrived illegally and failed to convince one of its 27 member states they were entitled to refugee status. Less than a quarter of those are deported, often because their home countries—places like Bangladesh, Algeria or Nigeria—balk at taking them back.
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