The EU threatened the Baltic states with sanctions for Nazism if it refuses to host refugees from Asia and Africa

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia face sanctions from the European Union if they refuse to host refugees from Africa and Asia. Baltic officials are warning their fellow citizens about this.

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About it writes “Russian Planet”.

Public discontent is most noticeable in Latvia: according to the EU program, it will have to accept 250 immigrants, but, according to popular opinion, this will not be the end of the matter. The country's Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich warned that the protest against European solidarity would negatively affect all spheres of life and could end “in Siberia.”

First of all, sanctions mean the suspension of funding from EU funds, on which the well-being of the economy of the Baltic countries greatly depends, so in the end they will have to accept the conditions of Brussels. This situation reveals the essence of the independence of the republics, which fought for so many years against the “Soviet occupation”, and as a result found themselves under real pressure from the European Union.

The historical fear of occupation is perhaps the main driving force behind the protest against accepting refugees in the Baltics. Nationalist forces took advantage of the negative mood of society.

Thus, the former head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, member of the European Parliament Kristiina Ojuland, spoke of a “threat to the white race.” In turn, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite considered the distribution of immigrants “unfair and inappropriate.”

In Latvia, all parliamentary parties, with the exception of Harmony, opposed EU quotas. The far-right Conservative People's Party of Estonia and the Latvian National Rally organized numerous rallies against the reception of migrants in Tallinn and Riga.

The action in Riga, which turned out to be very scandalous due to slogans including “No to genocide of the white race!”, “Baltic to the Baltic, Europe to the Europeans, Africa to the Africans!”, was supported by neo-Nazis from Lithuania and Estonia. It is worth adding that some Latvian politicians motivate their rejection of the EU program by the presence of 260 thousand Russian-speaking non-citizens.

Vladimir Linderman, a Latvian human rights activist, one of the leaders of the Russian Dawn society, explains such a harsh reaction precisely by the strong positions of nationalists, and this applies not only to the Baltic states, but throughout Eastern Europe. The Latvian Security Police has already warned that a large number of migrants could lead to the strengthening of extreme right-wing and neo-fascist ideology.

“Not all parties in the ruling coalition are against accepting refugees in Latvia. Pro-Western people have come to terms with the fact that they must accept EU rules. Extreme nationalists are opposed, which has threatened the very existence of the ruling coalition. At the “National Association” rally, completely Ku Klux Klan slogans were heard. This conflict between radical nationalists and the European bureaucracy may end with the expulsion of nationalists from the government,” says Vladimir Linderman.

Linderman notes that Latvian politicians did not seem to understand that joining the EU is not only about bonuses. Participation in European structures imposes obligations, and today the European Commission is imposing the acceptance of refugees.