Today marks the first formal day of voting in the 2024 elections for the European parliament. And as the Dutch go to the polls, one of the subjects dominating the debate there (and in the other 26 member countries) is immigration. This despite the April passage of the EU’s landmark package of laws on migration and asylum, which, among other changes, sets up border centres to hold asylum seekers while their requests are processed.

One increasingly used – and controversial – measure, is the outsourcing of border control, in which third countries are compensated for controlling immigrants before they reach European borders. As has been noted, the governments that sign these agreements, primarily in North Africa, are not bound by the same laws as EU members, particularly when it comes to human rights.

Not that any of this appears to trouble the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which is polling around 30% in both the European and September legislative elections. One of its campaign posters is titled “Stop the EU madness” and features Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen embracing Volodymyr Zelensky against a intentionally dystopian background of migrant boats, tanks, Covid-19 syringes, and windmills – not exactly a subtle message.

However, this article by a team of political scientists shows Europeans are more welcoming to migrants than some politicians would have it. A survey of more than 18,000 people in ten EU member states finds that border control is far from voters’ top concern, and while respondents advocate some form of caution, they mostly want policies to help asylum seekers work and integrate into their new lives.

That’s closer to the views of one of the continent’s great European thinkers, the Austrian Stefan Zweig. The author who wrote with nostalgia about a world when there were no passports, did not advocate for a monetary or economic union, but he did believe in the idea of Europe itself, in common cultural influences that crossed all borders on continent.

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