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Nov 30 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
1/3 Reading a #UNHCR report on the practical implementation of the #EU's Temporary Protection Directive for refugees from #Ukraine. One point: Ironically the TPD application shows in how many ways EU states could (if only they so wished) do so much better by ALL refugees, incl...
2/3 ... those not privileged by the TPD, that is those still going through the ordinary procedures of asylum-seeking. To put it bluntly: the TPD has established a two-class system of refugee treatment, where the currency qualifying you for 1st-class treatment is the media and...
3/3 ...geopol. oomph of your country's plight. The sorting has nothing to do with you as an individual, the merits, or needs of your individual case.
Even more ironically, the thing that the TPD really protects you from is being treated to the 2nd-class refugee system of the EU.

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