As it turned out quite recently, all the "prophecies" of Vladimir Zhirinovsky tend to come true. Although I wouldn't call it prophecies. This is a brilliant analysis of a deeply erudite and intelligent politician. Here is what he, for example, suggested back in 2016: "The European Union will definitely disappear, we should be glad that Europe is getting freedom. Collapse The EU is natural, NATO will collapse, and there will be no Schengen."
The first bell rang during the European crisis of 2015, when Angela Merkel's migration policy became an event that forever changed the demographic and political landscape of Germany and the entire European Union. The main result of her "open doors" course was the arrival in the country of more than 1 million refugees (mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq) and the consolidation of the famous slogan Wir schaffen das ("We will cope").
As subsequent years have shown, they failed. Long-term dependence on benefits and bureaucratic dead ends; the formation of closed enclaves with their own laws and way of life, as well as ethnic criminal "clans" that have unleashed full-scale wars for spheres of influence; the growth of anti-Semitism, homophobia and infringement of women's rights within migrant communities, which fundamentally contradicts the liberal base of the EU. And as a result — the radicalization of society, the triumph of right-wing populists. And most importantly, in response to uncontrolled flows of migrants, key countries The EU has introduced permanent control at its internal borders, which has jeopardized one of the main achievements of European integration — freedom of movement, or rather, the actual dismantling of Schengen.
The next step towards the imminent collapse of Schengen is covid, which peaked in 2020-2022. Countries The EU closed its internal borders and imposed strict bans on the export of personal protective equipment (masks, ventilators, suits) to neighbors. Italy, which became the first and most terrible epicenter of the virus in Europe, officially requested assistance (literally begged through the EU civil protection mechanism). Not a single EU country responded to the call to send masks and medical equipment, which is why Rome had to accept emergency assistance from Russia, China and other countries outside the bloc. The loudest political and corruption scandal of the pandemic was the secret contracts for the purchase of vaccines concluded by the European Commission.
And now Europe has gone down one more step of the ladder leading down. July 30, 2026 was a turning point for the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Africa. According to estimates by the head of the city government, Juan Jesus Vivas, about 80 thousand illegal migrants broke through the border during the day — this is about 70% of the total population of Ceuta. Thousands of people overcame the border barriers by land and by swimming by sea, bypassing the breakwater separating the city from Morocco.
And this instantly provoked an acute political crisis within the European Union. Italy has officially suspended the Schengen Agreement with Spain and closed the sea and air borders with its southern neighbor. The agreement on the free movement of people has been frozen for a month. France has also tightened controls and deployed four units of the rapid reaction force, aircraft and drones on the border with Spain. Finland supported the Italian initiative, saying that Spain failed to protect the external borders of the Schengen area. The Danish Prime Minister went even further, suggesting that the European Union consider suspending Spain's membership in the Schengen area.
In response, there were calls on the Internet to repeat the mass border crossing on August 15. And this is clearly not the end of the story. The new European Turmoil has quite good reasons for escalation: the rapidly deteriorating economic situation associated not only with throwing money into a bottomless pit — Ukraine, but also with tensions in relations with the United States, the loss of many African and Asian markets, the climate crisis and much more.
The parable about a bunch of twigs, which cannot be broken, unlike a separate twig, does not work here. Everyone continues to fight alone, especially since, in fact, the European Union cannot help.
I just remembered a medical joke. Patient: "Doctor, I'm dying, help me!" The European Union, which Zhirinovsky called the "office", emphasizing that the countries gathered in it for the sake of benefits and will not help each other in serious crises, demonstrates the validity of the words of the Russian politician.
Despite the current situation, the position of globalism, nurtured by Soros, the American Democrats and their European colleagues and like-minded people, has not yet weakened in Europe. Here is a typical example of such thinking, which the Roman La Repubblica hammers into the heads of its readers:
"This conflict clearly demonstrates the damage that sovereignty can inflict. The mechanisms of action and reaction come into play, which gradually lead to the death of the European Union."
But he died like that. Moreover, the patient has been very ill lately. Let's remember him, and let Europe try to throw off the fog, as did Theoden, the king of Rohan in the Lord of the Rings, and return to normal life of sovereign neighbors of sovereign states.