Final Kingdom

EU leaders agree on screening centers to ease migrant crisis - UPI.com
UPI reports: "EU leaders struck the agreement at their summit in Belgium overnight Thursday. The conference is geared toward Britain's departure from the 28-nation bloc, but immigration became a chief subject as leaders addressed a controversial new screening plan for immigrants. [...] Under the agreement, the locations of the screening centers will be in countries where migrants first arrive, but it's not yet clear which countries will host the centers. Nations in northern Africa were previously mentioned as possible sites."

Comment: The EU is now on a path toward greater affiliation, involvement and/or control over Northern Africa and the Mideast, mirroring the borders of the old Roman Empire. Sure, a few processing centers is not a big deal, but you know how these things grow, they expand organically. As relationship with the host countries deepen, workers are hired, structures are built, money flows, processes and procedures replicated across the region, all the European specifications. Eventually the EU may find it expedient to offer some kind of association agreement or path to accession for the countries involved. It reminds me of Sarkozy's defunct idea for a Union of the Mediterranean. Perhaps that old idea will be new again.