Imagine you are in a refugee camp with your family.
What would you do if you could not feed your children?
You would go somewhere else.
You would go where you hope that your children would not starve.
You would go north.
Not because you want to but because you don’t have another option.
Europe has options.
The question is what do we decide to do?
The question is where do we put our money?
We can invest in militarizing our borders.
We can invest money into hindering people from crossing the Mediterranean.
Or we can invest it to tackle the root problem.
Invest it to give people in the Global South a life of dignity.
Our question is not if we should introduce an upper ceiling for humanitarian aid.
The question is, where we want to invest our money?
Do we want to invest in life or in death?