2024-02-02 21:53:00
By Josef Kleinrath
02.02.2024
Burgenland’s governor stands by the upper limit of 10,000 asylum applications in Austria.
Hans Peter Doskozil, SPÖ governor of Burgenland, caused a stir by calling for an upper asylum limit of 10,000 applications for 2024. Even for SPÖ leader Andreas Babler, this is “not a solution.” Peter Hacker, SPÖ social councilor in Vienna, also does not consider the proposal to be effective.
On Friday, Doskozil defended this plan in ZIB2. Austria is the number 1 destination country in Europe – because the asylum system enables 95 percent of asylum seekers to stay in the country, even if the procedure has a negative outcome, 90 percent stay. He also criticized the lack of compliance with the Dublin agreements. This states that the asylum procedure must be carried out where a European country was entered for the first time.
Its upper limit means that all asylum seekers after the 10,000th. Doskozil demands that procedures should be sent back to where they came from. In the case of Burgenland, “to Hungary, where they come from”.
He described the Dublin Agreement, which particularly places a heavy burden on the countries on the EU’s external borders such as Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary, as “perhaps unfair”: “But that is the applicable law.” However, this is not practiced.
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Doskozil defends going it alone again
“We are no longer in control of the situation,” the Burgenland governor never tired of emphasizing.
What he also defended: going it alone on this issue. “No, this was not discussed with the federal SPÖ and Andreas Babler,” confirmed Doskozil when asked, and there was also no contact with other federal states: “You have to admit to us that the Burgenland social democrats take an independent line on socio-political issues. ” He is convinced that the upper limit can create pressure to achieve a fairer system in Europe.
The payment card for asylum seekers, which has already been agreed upon in Germany, was also discussed. Upper Austria’s Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) supported a proposal by his Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) to reduce Austria’s attractiveness as a refugee country. Doskozil is skeptical about this.
“Germany has ten times the monetary benefits compared to us, yet we are the number 1 destination country for asylum seekers in Europe,” he believes the payment card is an unsuitable instrument to make Austria less attractive as a destination country. It is much more important to consistently remove those whose asylum applications have been rejected out of the country. In these cases there should be “no more money, only more for repatriation”.
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