Immigration is a problem because the overwhelming majority of European citizens perceive it as such, and it is a problem for which the European Union has yet to find a solution. Obviously, migration flows often involve desperate and sometimes persecuted people. But, to borrow a phrase the French Socialist Michel Rocard was fond of repeating, no one “can accommodate all the misery of the world.” The European Union does not have to prove its democratic and judicial credentials to anyone. Nor does it need to offer guilt-ridden apologies for guarding its borders and protecting the European space—a self-evident undertaking.