Social engineers are more upfront in Europe, where people are used to doing what they're told.
Of course, this astonishing proposal, sent by French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement to the other European Union countries and leaked to Reuters, is ridiculous demographics and absurd economics. But it is excellent politics. It means that the European social democracies can put off dismantling the various feather-bedding schemes that have smothered their labor markets, something that might annoy the featherbeds' occupants. And it offers a limitless vista of interventionist opportunities for Europe's bureaucratic New Class, notably in implementing their equivalent of Hate Speech legislation to suppress any patriots who might be distressed at the abolition of their historic national communities. Even if the EU needed immigrants, it could get them from Eastern Europe and Russia.