Poland’s centrist government is trialing strict external border enforcement—including suspending asylum procedures at the Belarus frontier—while framing it as necessary to preserve humanitarian ideals and integration of proximate refugees (e.g., Ukrainians). This hybrid of tough perimeters plus selective compassion offers a way for mainstream liberals to defuse backlash without abandoning moral commitments.
— If this becomes the center‑left template in Europe, migration policy will realign around hard external controls endorsed by liberals, reshaping EU law, party coalitions, and border governance.
Leo Greenberg
2025.09.05
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition suspended the right to asylum at the Poland–Belarus border and publicly justified it as life‑saving and compatible with Polish support for Ukrainian refugees.
John Carter
2025.05.18
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The piece shows the doctrine spreading beyond Poland: Canada’s Mark Carney and the UK’s Keir Starmer use heritage‑and‑border rhetoric (e.g., Carney renouncing dual citizenship, Starmer’s 'islands of strangers' speech) while promising tighter controls—center‑lefts endorsing hard‑edge border narratives to preserve legitimacy.
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