PRESENT CONCERNS FOR EUROPE OF TOMORROW

Many are the challenges that the European Union will have to face within the next fifty years. Without diminishing other serious problems like global warming, the depletion of natural resources and the extreme poverty in Africa, in this essay we will focus on the issues intrinsically related to people’s fundamental and inalienable right to mobility. One of the most concerning problem related to people’s mobility is the growing number of illegal immigrants who struggle their way to Europe in search of a better standard of living and freedom. These people had been desperately pushed to abandon their countries and traverse the world, no matter the risks and the adversities they would have to endure. In order to control the increasing number of immigrants, more and more countries in Europe are denying the fundamental right to mobility and equal opportunities to justice and dignity by closing their doors and imposing restrictive laws. The results have been disastrous: thousands and thousands of preventable deaths of clandestine migrants drowned before reaching European’s soil. All countries of the European Union should move towards more sensible immigration laws: to open their frontiers to migrants who will provide Europe with the needed labour force and to create a data system to register aspiring immigrants’ professional and education profile so as to direct them towards the most suitable job opportunity as well as the employer with the work force needed. Another worrying issue related to immigration is the growing wave of intolerance and discrimination on European ground. The EU will have to fight, firmly against all forms of discrimination and xenophobic attitudes. Europe will have to play an intercultural role in preserving diversity. By sharing experiences and creating a new cultural integration phenomenon, all