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The European Union’s newly signed migration and mobility agreement with India has sparked fierce criticism across Ireland and beyond, with campaigners warning that the deal could open the door to effectively uncapped immigration from the world’s most populous country.
India, home to an estimated 1.46 billion people, is now set to benefit from expanded access to EU labour and residency pathways under the agreement, which Brussels says is designed to strengthen economic ties and address workforce shortages. However, critics argue the move represents a reckless gamble at a time when Europe is already struggling with housing shortages, overstretched public services, collapsing infrastructure, and a deepening sense of cultural erosion that has fueled widespread public anger.
This is not a minor tweak to visa rules: it is the deliberate next phase in a decades-long project to flood Europe with cheap foreign labour, a project that began when Angela Merkel unilaterally threw open the continent’s borders in 2015. What started as a supposed humanitarian gesture quickly morphed into an economic firehose of low-wage workers, depressing salaries, straining welfare systems, and transforming entire neighbourhoods overnight. Merkel’s “Wir schaffen das” mantra delivered neither integration nor prosperity, only division, crime spikes in some areas, and a permanent housing crisis that still grips Germany and much of the continent.
Now Ursula von der Leyen, Merkel’s protégé and ideological successor, is finishing the job.
This EU-India mobility pact, sold as a tidy arrangement for “skilled professionals” and students, is nothing less than a backdoor to mass demographic replacement dressed up in the language of economic necessity. With India’s population exceeding 1.4 billion and its youth bulge desperate for opportunities abroad, the incentives are overwhelmingly one-sided. Fast-tracked visas, easier family reunification, and smoother intra-company transfers will inevitably snowball into chain migration on a scale Europe has never seen from a single source country.
For Ireland, the consequences promise to be catastrophic. Already reeling from one of the worst housing crises in the developed world, with record homelessness and rents that have priced an entire generation out of independent living, the country simply cannot absorb another wave of arrivals. Irish hospitals are at breaking point, schools are overflowing, and rural communities are watching their identities vanish under the pressure of rapid demographic change. Yet Dublin, ever eager to prove its loyalty to Brussels, has dutifully signed up to this pact, effectively volunteering to be the soft underbelly of Europe’s new open-door policy.
Proponents claim this is about ‘filling skills gaps.’ The truth is far uglier: it is about keeping wages low for corporations while ordinary Europeans foot the bill in higher taxes, longer waiting lists, and diminished quality of life. Ireland, a small island nation that has already taken in disproportionate numbers of migrants relative to its size, risks being overwhelmed entirely. The social cohesion that once defined the country is fraying; public trust in institutions is at rock bottom; and anti-immigration sentiment, long dismissed as fringe, is now mainstream.
Von der Leyen’s pact is not an economic lifeline: it is demographic suicide by another name. Europe had a chance to learn from 2015. Instead, its leaders have chosen to double down, sacrificing the continent’s future on the altar of short-term corporate profit and globalist ideology. If this deal is not scrapped or radically curtailed, the Europe, and indeed the Ireland we once knew and loved, will be soon lost forever.
This article was originally published by SnDMedia.
