Several states are unable to handle the influx of refugees – VG

extremist forces are stronger in an increasingly impotent Europe. Several states are unable to handle the influx of refugees. They are about to hit the wall.

Foreign Ministry’s top bureaucrats does not add anything in between when describing refugee situation. It shall not do. Bureaucracy job is to draw a more realistic picture of reality as possible. They shall provide sober assessments and solid facts that politicians use when they make their decisions. The paper VG has gained access to, is one of the foundation notes to an internal working group to look at migration wave to Europe.

Academic heavily

The paper is held in a non-bureaucratic and direct language. This is not an article from an alarmist, or the head of a politician who wants to conjure up an image that can serve his or her case. No, this is a professional heavy description of Europe today, and of what awaits us if politicians fail to gain control of the borders and the flow of people wanting to come here.

Just this makes it internal working paper extra hard to read. The conclusion is clear: Norway is completely dependent on Europe. If Europe fails to meet the situation, so also harbors we in big trouble. So far there is little to suggest that European leaders fail to find solutions that support. They can not even implement measures they agree on.

Balancing Act

The overall presentation of the working paper of the Foreign Ministry’s powerful cost. There are also some of the measures introduced. These must be read as alternatives foreign minister and the government may consider, not as an official, adopted policy. As the proposal to add about aid policy with greater emphasis on community areas around Europe, and less emphasis on poor countries far away.

Or formulations that stability can be more important than the struggle for human rights and good governance, and about the need for increased collaboration between Norwegian authorities and police – and the security sector in undemocratic and repressive regimes, including in the Middle East and Africa.

the question Foreign Minister Børge Brende and other politicians must answer is how they will balance different considerations against each other. Can the current situation to take care of the best traditions of Norwegian foreign policy, while also making it necessary for Norway and Europe will manage to deal with migration flow? Can they combine compassion and firmness?

Nordic cooperation

Perhaps the only bright spot in a very gloomy note, is the hope that the Nordic countries may be able to find solutions in community. Nordic cooperation has long been a topic only for those with special interests. Now it may get a new meaning. Relations between Sweden and Denmark is freezing. Denmark has had Scandinavia strictest asylum policy, Sweden had the most open. Politicians and other representatives from the two countries have hardly been able to talk about these issues. They have been all too far apart, and been marked by mutual distrust and contempt.

Foreign Ministry bureaucrats outlines how Norway and Finland together can play a role to get the two other neighboring countries to cooperate. And maybe speak with one voice in international discussions on the future of asylum policy. For those discussions going. Just what can we be confident.

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