Comment: Empty Threats

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Comment: Empty Threats

The current Plan of the EU: The EU’s external borders to protect and Greece if necessary, throw out. Not from the Euro but from the Schengen area. But that brings no solution to the refugee crisis, says Bernd Riegert.

Schengen: In the village in Luxembourg, was the freedom to travel is invented

The external borders of the European Union need to be better protected. This sentence we have from the lips of many politicians in Europe again and again and again heard. Also, the interior Ministers of the European Union at their informal Meeting in Amsterdam do not get tired, put it to use. But what does he actually in the final analysis? This question brought legitimately to the Greek representative. If borders wants to protect, to the kontrollfreie travel in the interior (the Schengen area) to preserve, then you have to know against whom or what the protection is supposed to serve.

Defense of refugees

According to the German interpretation, the enhanced protection of external borders, the number of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants “sustainably and significantly” reduce. That is, Yes, probably, that the people of the territory of the EU not even enter. Greek border guards would have to Flüchtlingsboote so at sea afford, in Turkey, to return, or even to sink? No, that would be inhumane and illegal, for people in distress, even if you are in debt, you need to be saved.

DW’s Europe correspondent Bernd Riegert

Thus came the refugees next to Greece, also with reinforced border, and would have on the Greek Islands to remain there supplies and registered. The asylum procedure then would within days take place, so people are not on the Balkan route to move on. This means, however, that one huge detention centre is required, to the asylum seekers there to hold. It also includes a System for the distribution of those in Europe, allowed to remain, and a System for the removal and affiliation of those who again need to go. The nucleus for such a System should the Hotspots be. Even today, only theory. Greece is now unable to perform his duties. The borders to Turkey to foreclose is currently an impossibility.

Ineffective Threat

The threat of the EU, Greece from the Schengen Zone to throw in the free travel is to prevail, so bring anything at all. The situation on the ground would not change. What Greece much more is needed, is the construction of camps to the border accommodation of the refugees. The one can, by political threats, but not reach. Greece, the last year we have amply seen, respond mainly to financial incentives. So if you have the treatment of refugees, with the enormous financial help of international donors to link, you would have determined a greater effect than the threat of the Schengen expulsion.

The EU interior Ministers have given their feuding and helplessness in the refugee crisis Greece as the weakest link, and identifies and strike with the political club on it. This is cheap and will not help further. The de facto expulsion of Greece would offer the other Schengen States a good reason, to the own border controls for years to extend. A solution for the refugee crisis, he would not. Only the complete end overall of border traffic without border controls in the Schengen area is thus becoming increasingly more likely.

Signs of perplexity

Greece from Schengen to urge, would, ironically, in practice, little consequences. Because a glance at the map shows that Greece is not a land border with another Schengen country shares. Albania, Macedonia and Turkey are Non-EU countries. Only Bulgaria is an EU member, but not a full Schengen member. Refugees from Greece to Macedonia to leave the country, would be no difference felt. Schengen or not. Only for air travelers, would impact noticeably. It would be for EU citizens from the Schengen Zone and also to the Greeks, in other Schengen States to fly back passport checks. Annoying, but not a Drama.

The recent dispute between the EU and Greece, this time not to the Euro, but to Schengen, only shows the whole perplexity of the Minister of the interior. A confused and senseless Black-Peter-game.

By the way, would the concept, if it is because one would be on Italy that will be applied. Also Italy can make its sea border does not completely protect and makes migrants travel further North.

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