QUO VADIS EUROPA? (Satis Shroff)

QUO VADIS EUROPA?

Lack of Cooperation & Coordination in Europe (Satis Shroff)

The federal government of Germny will reduce its payments to the asylum seekers by changing its asylum law in a 128-page law proposal, and which will be ready before the refugee-summit of the  German states and Länder on September 24,2015. According to the Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, the asylum seekers should receive a travel-ticket or a flight-ticket plus food for the return-trip. This would hold or all refugees, who have come Hungary, Austria, Croatia or Italy and have been registered there.

Pro Asyl has criticized that the government makes refugees, who were allowed to enter Germany, without shelter and deprives them from acquiring social benefits.’ On the other hand, refugees who are obliged to leave the country, because their asylum applications have been refused by the authorities shouldn’t be given privileges necessary for a journey back home. Individual cases will be taken into consideration if they can be solidly supported with plausible arguments. Asylum seekers who had given false names, addresses in their bio-data, as well as false nationalities or try to hinder the expulsion will bring disadvantages to themselves.

Those who cannot be deported due to good reasons (education, pregnancy) should receive what we called ‘Duldung (in German) according to paragraph 60a.’ Furthermore, the asylum seekers will receive no money but consumer good or tickets for food-shops, so that the incentive won’t become as lucrative as money. The pocket money that was paid to asylum seekers in the past for apartments, clothes and food has been scrapped. But the Social Ministry, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs) have agreed to do so ‘as far as possible.’

The law packet also mentions that Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo will be declared secure countries for their respective citizens and, as such, the people from these c and reason to apply for asylum in the west.

Asylum seekers have challenged the court decision to send them to a country where they don’t want to go for instance Hungary, which in turn doesn’t want the Arabian and North African or Muslim refugees.

The Dublin-rules have been watered down and don’t hold against the recent ceaseless waves  of refugees from Syria, North Africa, Lebanon and other countries. The Dublin-rules allow each country to choose its own measures against the refugee. A refugee can ask to travel to his country of choice only in exceptional cases, but he or she has to finance the train-journey or flight-ticket himself or herself, and has to make sure that he or she arrives in the destination and seeks contact with the migration authorities in due time.

Switzerland wishes to support a distribution of refugees with solidarity among the EU nations, and would accept the quota set by the EU, even though the Swiss are not members of the EU.

In the meantime, even Croatia has closed its border and the hapless refugees are being sent from one Balkan border to the other because there’s no cooperation and co-ordination between the transit-countries of the Balkan. If a refugee doesn’t apply for asylum then he will be sent back to another safe third country, for instance Serbia.

 Serbia sent the refugees in trains and busses to Hungary, which again doesn’t want them, and has started to build a barbed-wire zone along its border to Croatia. And yet the humans somehow cross the borders and manage to cross one border after another. These are traumatic experiences that will be engraved in the minds of the small children, mothers and father , as well as brothers and neighbors. Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier has met the Turkish President. Turkey has taken 2 million Syrian refugees, which is an enormous number in comparison to the 28 EU nations. Steinmeier  said: ‘It’s important to give the refugees the possibility of repatriation.’ His aim is to help reduce the number of refugees who make their way to Europe.  

The refugees from Syria are expected to the learn the German language fast, complete their education, whether vocational training or university course and to start working  with the aim to integrate themselves in the German society.