Stakes in Germany & EU could not be higher this week. 1. CSU claims 🇩🇪will have fewer asylum seekers if border with Austria is controlled more strictly. How that? 🇦🇹has a leader who won elections on promise to have closed borders to the south already. If Kurz & FPO ...
... did not succeed, how would CSU? With fenced like Orban’s inside EU? The end of Schengen, everywhere & forever? Near Salzburg, in Basel, on border with Poland? Why would 🇦🇹accept to take back those registered in Hungary or Italy, if these refuse? On the other hand ...
... in EU some propose “more Frontex” as solution, & billion € budget increase. Same question: what would more Irish, Finnish, Estonian border guards DO in Greece or Italy that would make any real difference? Right now: how would more Frontex change things on 🇬🇷🇹🇷border? ...
... others propose asylum processing centres “in Africa”. Where? For whom? If it is hard now to return rejected Senegalese asylum seekers to their country, why is it be easier to return them to a country not their own? If it now takes too long to process claims in 🇬🇷&🇮🇹 ...
... why would it be quicker to process claims in Niger? It is stunning how for so many years big institutions keep presenting ill-thought-through platitudes without details - master plans nobody gets to see - as solutions. When it fact the choice is clear ...
If we take right to asylum seriously we must process claims of those who reach EU - seriously & the quicker the better.
And if EU member states want to succeed to return more of those NOT in need of protection in EU to their home countries they need these countries to want to cooperate. How to achieve that? These are the questions EU should debate. Instead discussions go around in circles ...
