For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has become the lowest common denominator for rightwing populist politics in many of the 28 member states.
What these regimes have in common is the “man-made” nature of the Zeitgeist. Democracies are not dying in the world today; they are being killed by premeditated, deliberate acts on the part of the incumbent leaders.
