MOSCOW (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova – Earlier in the day, a poll conducted by the UK-based Populus research and strategy consultancy group exclusively for Sputnik revealed that 46 percent of Western European respondents to the survey believe that their home countries should take in refugees.
"In Western EU states the processes of social disintegration as nations and unification of common values within the bloc are stronger than in new EU member states, as a result, these societies [Western EU states] are not able to fight against new challenges because their original national values and identity have been already partially erased," Claudio D'Amico said.
According to the politician, a strong national identity makes Eastern Europe residents resist the refugee influx, causing citizens to regard migrants as a threat to their way of life.
"In the Eastern part of Europe, countries are still having their cultural and national values, pride and courage, unlike in Western member states, where people prefer to hide their heads in the sand like ostriches when facing danger," he claimed.
D'Amico asserts that the religion and financial status of Muslim migrants pose a threat to the European bloc's social, religious and ethnic stability.
"The European Union must take the fight against the rising inflow of undocumented migrants as it has been proven, they will not be able to integrate into the European society. If this trend prevails, in 2050, a majority of the EU population will be Muslims and it means an end of Europe as we know it now," he explained.
