What should western politicians be most worried about: growth, inequality, the environment, education? To judge from today’s discourse, the answer seems to be none of the above. Instead, in the past month, both Barack Obama, US president, and David Cameron, UK prime minister, have made big speeches on immigration. At the weekend Swiss voters rejected a proposal virtually to end the flow of incomers to their country. But anti-immigration parties have made strong gains in a variety of other European nations, including Sweden and Italy, in the past year.
西方政界人士最應該擔憂的是什麼?成長、不平等、環境還是教育?從當前流行話題來判斷,答案似乎不在其中。相反,一個多月來,美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)和英國首相大衛•卡麥隆(David Cameron)都就移民問題發表了重要講話。日前,瑞士選民否決了一項幾乎不再接納新移民的提案。但在過去一年中,反移民政黨在其他多個歐洲國家——包括瑞典和義大利——取得了重大進展。