EU Discovers Assad's Fall, Readies Syrians for 'Improved' Conditions (After a Decade)
Funny, isn't it? The EU is now 'updating guidance' a full year post-Assad, as if the notion of Syria being unsafe for its citizens wasn't glaringly obvious for the last twelve. This sudden bureaucratic urgency appears less about genuine concern for Syrian refugees and more about adjusting legal classifications now that the geopolitical chess pieces have shifted. It’s hard to ignore that the
so-called 'improved conditions' often follow the type of 'external intervention' that media outlets rarely connect to the subsequent refugee crisis. One might wonder if the EU's concern for 'volatility' extends to the initial decade of conflict, a period during which their own foreign policies and arms sales, and those of their allies, arguably fueled the very instability Syrians were fleeing. The
updated guidance conveniently sidesteps addressing Europe's complicity in creating an asylum crisis they now belatedly 'manage.'