Regarding Britain, France and Germany, the governments of all three are using liberalising rhetoric (Merkel too, she won an election back when she made it the centerpiece, but she uses it even today, while using opposed rhetoric too), while all three go against it in practice with a routine. Lengyel's mistaken view is tendentious, but above all a rather typical superficial reading based on the (perhaps selective reading of) liberalising rhetoric - and its enhancement in media.

It's sad, really.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}