Authored by Kenneth Timmerman via American Greatness,
Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders.
I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa.
But I am also aware of the coming existential crisis facing Europe as a whole and the European Union quite specifically.
It comes in several flavors, and all of them are bitter.
First is the shock and embarrassment posed by the influx of 72,000 North African Muslim wannabe migrants into Ceuta, one of two tiny Spanish enclaves in Morocco, just miles away from the Spanish mainland near Gibraltar.
The inability—or unwillingness—of the Spanish authorities to repulse them has provoked a Europe-wide reaction, prompting Italy’s center-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, to impose passport controls on visitors from Spain for the first time since the Schengen accords of 1995 created a “borderless” European space.
Spain retaliated last week, imposing controls of its own on visitors from Italy.
This week Meloni teamed up with her center-left Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, to jointly condemn uncontrolled migration.
“We are both proud of Europe’s Christian cultural heritage and want to protect it,” they said on Monday. “We expect those who come to our countries and choose to make Europe their home to respect
