2023-04-28 15:38:22
The EU wants to reform the asylum law – and before the traffic light in Brussels negotiates it, it has initially agreed on a common line.
And it has it all: Suddenly the SPD, Greens and FDP are planning a restrictive asylum policy!
▶︎ The core of the plan, the Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (52, SPD) has to push through: In future it should be possible to decide on asylum decisions directly at the EU’s external borders – and to reject migrants immediately if they are rejected. That reports the HE DOES.
Transit centers at the external borders
And not only that: According to the plans refugees also be housed under “prison-like conditions”! They are legally considered not yet to have entered the country at the borders and may only challenge a refusal in court once. So far, this is only possible at airports.
Transit centers at the EU border? This is strongly reminiscent of what the then Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (73, CSU) demanded in 2018 – and thus caused an outcry from the SPD and Greens. Seehofer also had nerve-wracking arguments with Chancellor Angela Merkel (68) about refugee policy.
Was Federal Minister of the Interior from 2018 to 2021: CSU Dino Horst Seehofer
Is Faeser getting tough now?
No. One passage regulates which migrants all this should apply to: only those from countries with a “recognition rate” (positive asylum decisions in relation to all applications) of less than 15 percent, if the federal government has its way (the EU wants the limit to be 20 pull percent). War refugees, for example from countries like Syria or Afghanistan, would continue to be exempt from the tough measures.
Heiko Teggatz, deputy chief of the police union GdP, calls it “absurd”. “It is precisely the people from Syria, Afghanistan, Turkey and Iraq who (…) make up the bulk of migration to Europe.”
He welcomes the fact that the asylum procedures are to be accelerated in principle by transit centers, but also says that it is “long overdue” and should “be carried out immediately” and not only announced for 2024.
Because: “That could be understood by the smuggling gangs as the starting signal and by this date it could cost even more lives in the Mediterranean.”
The EU wants to take even tougher action
The traffic light is approaching the EU Commission with its plans, which is demanding even tougher rules.
For example, the federal government insists that families with children under the age of 18 continue to receive a regular asylum procedure – the Commission wants to set the limit at 12 years of age.
And she emphasizes that detention at the external border should only be considered as a last resort. BUT: She accepts the existing prerequisites for this.
From when should this apply?
The EU member states want to reach an agreement by June. After that, negotiations with the European Parliament will begin. It may take until spring 2024 for the reform to actually be completed.
What the traffic light demands
If a refugee comes to Germany via Italy, for example, Germany is automatically responsible after six months. The traffic light wants the period to be extended to twelve months so that, for example, migrants who have gone into hiding can still be returned at a later date.
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