The Migrant Question: Western nations are fracturing on the issue.

Europe, despite its Union, is as divided as ever. Recently, when Italy's new right-wing government-anxious to prove its credentials-refused to allow a boat carrying 629 African migrants to dock in Italy, Spain's new left-wing government-equally anxious to do the same-accepted the boat. When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, criticized the Italians for their decision, the Italian government accused the French of hypocrisy, inasmuch as they had refused to take more than 9,000 migrants from Italy that they had previously agreed to accept.

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