The following video shows the popular French radio commentator Eric Zemmour talking on the radio about the recent kerfuffle between France and Italy over the NGO migrant-rescue ship Aquarius (which has now finally reached Spain).

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 We don’t necessarily agree.

00:04 “We don’t necessarily agree” with Eric Zemmour. Hello, Eric. —Good day. —The controversy

00:08 concerning the migrant boat Aquarius caused a diplomatic crisis between France and Italy

00:12 and it is dividing the marching majority. —Well, “I know you are, but what am I?”

00:16 — we all remember this nursery rhyme. The EU is

00:20 a large playground where everyone accuses the other of cynicism,

00:25 where everyone accuses the other of hypocrisy. Where everyone is playing a hypocrite,

00:29 hypocrite and a half. A great contest where our president isn’t a wallflower. When he denounces

00:33 the role played by cynicism and irresponsibility on the part of the Italian government,

00:37 Emmanuel Macron is forgetting that in Summer of 2017, while one hundred thousand migrants

00:41 were flooding the Italian shores over the period of just a couple of months, he gave an order

00:45 to his interior minister to not open the borders, and to channel all the illegals

00:49 to Italy. This is that contrast between Macron the candidate,

00:54 who promoted an open France, and Macron the president who understood well that

00:58 the vast majority of the country wished only for closed [borders].

01:02 This is what some En Marche [Macron’s party] deputies seem not to understand, who award themselves

01:05 15 minutes of fame in the media with a humanist narrative of “openness”. One can, in this Festival

01:10 of Hypocrisy, award a Special Trophy to nationalists from Corsica

01:14 who offered to open their harbours all while knowing full well that the French government

01:18 wouldn’t allow them to do it and that their population wouldn’t like it.

01:22 Are you suggesting that hypocrisy is a French monopoly? —Oh, no, the hypocrisy and cynicism contest

01:27 doesn’t stop with France. Italian Interior Minister Salvini

01:31 managed a fantastic political operation in the last municipal elections: his party, the Lega,

01:35 crushed everybody, allies and adversaries.

01:39 As for the Spanish government, they opened their harbours to this boat; they know

01:43 that this way they’ll be worshipped by all the European media. They also know that most

01:47 migrants won’t stay in Spain. At one time, Italians were also playing

01:52 this game, until French and German closed their borders.

01:56 Brussels congratulated Madrid. One more example of hypocrisy

02:00 The countries [where the migrants arrive] — Italy and Greece — can’t carry on like that anymore.

02:04 And others don’t want them [migrants] anymore: those who say it, such as the Eastern Europeans, are

02:07 branded “the evil ones”, but those, like the French or the Germans, who don’t say it, to stay in

02:12 the good guys’ camp, pay the Turks or Libyans to keep their migrants

02:17 on their territory. The contest for the Hypocrisy Trophy doesn’t stop at the country level.

02:21 The NGOs who are pretending to be the saviors of humanity aren’t saving anybody,

02:25 because there isn’t anybody to save. The migrants have the phone number of the

02:29 Italian Navy to call for help the very second they put one toe in the Mediterranean Sea.

02:33 The NGOs and the smugglers are making very good living by exploiting the migrants and

02:37 the countries who accept them. So, as our prime minister Edouard Philippe says, there

02:42 is no hope for a national solution for this problem: it can only be a European [solution].

02:46 Oh, well, but it’s Europe itself which made the solution of the problem impossible

02:50 with the decision of the European Court of Justice forbidding Italy

02:54 to turn away the boats and send them back to where they came from, because those boats could

02:58 and should be brought by our navy to the harbours from where they originated.

03:03 It is done that way by countries such as Japan or Australia, who don’t welcome

03:07 any migrants, and who had no corpses in their territorial waters. Too simple.