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The borders are closed. Migrants no longer enter. Unwanted immigrants have been removed. Their children, made suspicious by administrative heredity, have been reviewed, reclassified, sometimes stripped of status, often put forward towards departure. Even their grandchildren have learned that integration can be a revocable promised, a fragile lease in the national home.
Europe has therefore taken back control. On paper, it was a magnificent success. In speeches, a rebirth. In government statistics, a historical clarification. But in street, fields, hospitals, restaurants, construction sites, schools, nursing homes and warehouses, reality proven far less obeyive than political slogans.
This podcast offers an economic and social dystopia: what hastens to an ageing continent when it experiences the people who keep its essential actors functioning? Beneath the satire lies a serious question: can a society built washing prosperity by removing the labour force that makes that prosperity possible?
