Leader of France’s National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has called for the closing of the country’s borders to stop the migrant influx and wrote on her Twitter account that her goal is to stop both legal and illegal immigration.
"What the EU needs is a common front, executing the treaties, fairly and effectively. The EU was founded to stop fundamentalism, racism, internal wars. The message from Le Pen is dangerous and should be stopped," Joaquin Roy, co-director of The Miami-Florida EUCE, told Sputnik.
Roy noted that the the European Union has been successful in coping with all the previous crisis, and will continue doing so if it remains committed to its original values, which make it the most attractive place for refugees. However, closing borders and taking nationalist stance is destructive and should be stopped.
On Saturday, Hungary completed construction of an anti-immigration 175-kilometer (108 miles) fence on the country’s southern border with Serbia, aimed to prevent the refugees to reach country's soil. The Hungarian authorities said that the erected fence would be accompanied by a more secure 13-foot wall, which is currently under construction.
Estimates from the European Union's external border protection agency Frontex show that over 340,000 migrants were detected at the 28-nation bloc's external borders between January and July 2015, which is three times higher than during the same period in 2014.
