2023-06-03 15:13:31
The traffic light coalition is already reacting to the ongoing criticism of asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders and is entering the crucial European consultations with the demand for an exception for children, young people and their families. “The federal government has agreed on a common position with which it will appear in the negotiations at EU level,” government circles said on Saturday to the Tagesspiegel.
It is true that “at the European level, migration must be organized and controlled in a sustainable manner and irregular migration must be limited,” said a spokesman for the leading Federal Ministry of the Interior of Nancy Faeser (SPD). However, he added: “The federal government is committed to exempting children and young people, as well as families with children, from border procedures.”
Demand for exceptions also goes back to the Greens
The Greens, in particular, had pushed for this stronger humanitarian orientation, whose ministers Annalena Baerbock and Lisa Paus also made statements on Saturday. Both no longer generally questioned the controversial border procedure, which is being negotiated at the EU Council of Interior Ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, as it had brought many countries to the table that had previously blocked a reform of the European asylum rules. However, it must be ensured, according to Foreign Minister Baerbock to the Funke media group, “that no one gets stuck in border procedures for more than a few weeks, that families with children do not get involved in border procedures, that the right to asylum is not fundamentally undermined”.
At the same time, numerous celebrities and artists criticized the federal government’s asylum policy in an open letter initiated by the organization “Leavenoonebehind”. While their coalition agreement still spoke of better standards in the asylum procedures of the EU states, they are now “suggesting that many people are locked up at the external borders and receive worse standards in fast-track procedures,” criticize the signatories. They include singer Herbert Grönemeyer, writer Sibylle Berg, actress Katja Riemann and the band Kraftklub.
FDP does not insist on exceptions
In the original proposal of the EU Commission, only children under the age of twelve should be excluded, the Greens now expect Faeser to represent the expansion to under 18 years. Despite the original intra-government agreement, this point is not so important to the Liberals. “Humane care for all refugees and efficient implementation of the asylum procedure at the EU’s external borders must be guaranteed and ensured,” said FDP Secretary General Bijan Djir-Sarai to the Tagesspiegel: “If these rules apply, then there is no need to debate possible exceptions , which would only endanger an agreement in Europe once more.” An understanding may be “closer than ever”.
The Union has no understanding that the federal government is trying to “soften up the original proposal further in various places”, as Thorsten Frei (CDU), as parliamentary secretary of their parliamentary group, told the Tagesspiegel: “If you exempt families from the procedures at the external borders, that weakens them Approach”. Their needs must and can be taken into account in the proceedings themselves.
Frei also spoke out once morest the proposal by CSU Vice Manfred Weber, who called for a new edition of the European aid mission Sophia in the Mediterranean. “The resumption of state sea rescue would send the wrong signal,” said the CDU politician: “The more ships are on the way to the rescue in the Mediterranean, the more people make the dangerous journey with unseaworthy boats and put their lives in danger.” The phases of increased state presence from 2015 to 2019 also saw the highest number of deaths.
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