If the EU doesn't do something as a collective then faith in the EU will diminish, not only that on the international stage it will bee seen as a weak union.
The current covid debacle with vaccine roll out etc with the EU and now immigration crisis in many countries will ultimately lead to the far right gaining traction and support.
I have seen this in Denmark and Sweden as far back as 2016, to be honest a lot of ordinary people are getting very annoyed and switching from traditional central parties or left of central to more extreme parties on the right.
Don't forget it was Sweden that really took the first stand against the EU by announcing it would deport up to 80,000 migrants, Finland followed with up to 32,000.
In both countries at the time there was high anti EU sentiment going around this issue is a hot potato.
Sweden also suspended its membership of the Schengen area because of this issue along with terrorism, its why now you have to show ID or passport on the border, I do foresee other countries following suit if they haven't already.
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