Re: Well, you wanted to immigrate to the EU?
The EU is going through a wave of anti-immigration sentiment against a horde of (sub)african wannabee immigrants without the education, language skills, and general understanding of culture required by the official route, coupled with an influx of people from Asia Minor through abuse of "family reunion schemes", who, again, by themself would never have qualified under normal immigration rules.
Academics tend not to fall into that particular category, especially in the fields mentioned in the article, which tend to be crucial for a thing called "progress".
You can keep your Humanities snowflakes though... Oh wait, they would mostly not be able to get a work visa past Brexit....