Hundreds Feared Drowned In Migrant Boat Sinking

Billions of Aid has been sent to Africa and sadly it hasn't made much difference.

I'm all for Europe paying to improve Africa as a continent and improving its infrastructure, education etc like the Marshall plan and I think it would be a good idea but I think the only way it would work (due to the corruption levels in most African countries) would be if the countries giving the aid were in charge of what was done with the money and of course then they'll be accused of colonialism if they do that.

I'd be all for pumping Africa full of contraceptives to stop people having far too many children they cannot provide a decent life for but that would probably be considered racist by a lot of people and won't be allowed to happen.

The fact is most African countries have been independent for over 50 years now, if they can't run themselves even somewhat competently in that time then who's fault is it.

The fact that governments in Africa seem to not have been able to work out by now that if you have a non temperate climate that makes food production more difficult then it is not a good idea to have a continually increasing population. You have countries like Ethiopia and Kenya where the population has increased 5 fold in the last 50 years despite it clearly not being able to sustain such a population.Surely the United Nations (if it has any purpose at all) would have been able to introduce large scale contraceptive programmes in the last 50 years to help stop people having children they can't give an even half decent life to.

This is as bad as alt right arguments that the US slavery was fine because someone did it first.

Europe and the US both had the choice, and made the choice, to abolish the slave trade. Why would protectionism be any different or be excused by someone did it first. It's a bit like we both came across the same comatose woman behind a dumpster and have been having a good go at her ever since just because other people were there doing it before we shoved them off. It doesn't make anything about it right. Protectionism creates an engineered inequality and system of exploitation we are always at liberty to abolish.

I didn't see anyone mention it as reparations. The Marshall Plan wasn't reparation money, it was money the US invested in Europe to rebuild it after WW2 because a) it was the right thing to do and b) it was really good business and c) we already has a cold war policy of opposing communism. It was also not free from accusations it was imperialism. But sure what would the alternative been if we had not done that though either: a massive, massive influx of refugee and migration charter ships from Europe to the United States, people whose economies were buried under rubble. Its natural for people to flock from areas of instability to areas of stability.

Well we exploit the world's riches. And in the process cause a lot of the worlds issues, like energy wars, iran-contra, and picking and choosing warlords to ensure cheap access to raw materials and goods.

Again, this isn't about 'reparations' you aren't hearing me.

Yeah, endless foreign interventionism, imperialism, and protectionism can have that effect, but whatever right.

And who is allowing the exploitation to happen?

Nobody can force the DRC to use child labour in it's cobalt mines.They as a country have decided to allow this to happen.

Ireland made it's first great leap forward as a country under Lemass, that was prior to joining the EU , so your point about the EU isn't really true at all.

I'm not sure you realise that what you want is basically some sort of Apartheid era South Africa extended all over that continent.

I really cannot understand why this is deemed to be the EU’s fault because it does not provide “safe pathways to protection”.

There is a process and pathway, but people chose to bypass it.

There is no viable business model for traffickers that cannot ever deliver the people looking to cross. Why would anyone pay for it?

I assume they are wedged because statistically, the overwhelming majority get to the other side and create a chain effect. In other words, the current environment and business model that encourages this kind of fiasco, in the main works.

If the Irish navy and a thousand others join in, it will work even better and more people will be encouraged to engage traffickers.