The most recent statement on the role of NGOs belongs to Francesco Giorgi, the former Vice-president of European Parliament Eva Caili’s Italian husband, who was deposed recently due to the Qatar-Gate scandal. “It was necessary for us to move the money.” He means the money from Qatar and possibly Morocco. They had named their own NGO “Fight Impunity”. They succeeded, if nothing else.
NGOs were enshrined as an institution of European life. The intense activity of NGOs appeared in 2015 in Greece and Italy, the year of the great invasion by refugees and illegal immigrants. Boats of refugees and immigrants arrived in Northern Lesvos-Greece every day, but there was no Greek Authority to welcome and guide them. The role was assumed by the NGOs. Some kids from Northern Europe, who treated the native population as an enemy. There was no one to check them. No police anywhere, the Greek state was conspicuous by its absence. However, the children of the NGOs are present. In 2015, there was no chance for any ordinary person to protest the situation that had been imposed on him.
What is this hybrid neoplasm? We are not referring to their finances. It is the responsibility of the Authorities and the criminal justice system. We are mainly referring to their social impact. Where do they get the right to intervene in a society to “fix” it? Which democracy gave it to them?
Ships in the Mediterranean pick up migrants from North Africa every day. They are looking for ports in Italy or the South of France. Why; Because they belong to NGOs with fancy names. And then the entire democratic community of Europe is amazed and exasperated, how is it possible that the Italians elect Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister.
What are these NGOs anyway? Hybrid states, principalities or baronies? Where do they get their power from? However, not from the institutions of democratic Europe. As much as they tolerate them, let’s not laugh, they never put them to the test of voting. Regardless of everything else, financial and otherwise, NGOs operate in the shadow of democratic institutions. Especially as it happened in Greece in 2015 and they are still running.
Let’s take it differently. NGOs are the product of Europe’s guilt. Europe’s political institutions are not capable of dealing with the immigration challenge, so they delegate its management to various organizations for which they themselves bear no responsibility. They are accountable only to the humanitarian principles they invoke. Naivety or trickery? The distance is not long. It is enough to calculate the influence that NGO action has on democracies. Unfortunately, the polls don’t measure it.
You will tell us that there are also NGOs that respond to their humanitarian work. We have no objection. Control of NGO activities? Definitely yes. However, I’m afraid it’s not enough. If the mentality of Europe does not change, which assigns the management of democratic rights, such as dealing with immigration, to organizations that are not democratically controlled, such as NGOs.
