The “refugee-Bingo” in the EU, Italy can win right Matteo Salvini only. Why should he do the interior Minister Seehofer, so as a Favor, asks Bernd Riegert.
Mission accomplished: Matteo Salvini, right-wing interior Minister of Italy, prevented the progress in EU migration issues
“Pathetic,” called Horst Seehofer, the current situation of the search and rescue for migrants heading from Libya to Europe. Is meant by the “refugee-Bingo”, so the cynical Jargon in Brussels, the EU member States play each Time, if a private rescue ship with 40 or 50 Saved on Board crosses in front of the Italian ports. By means of telephone conference the head of the General Directorate “Migration” in the EU Commission to convince the ministries of the interior in consent of the EU member States to then tries to a handful of people. Pathetic, and completely without mercy will then be haggled.
Has provoked this Situation of radical right-wing interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, of the rushes with the emotional issue of refugees in his home country, from election victory to election victory, and as an unyielding defender of Italian interests will be more at ease. To ports, migrants put off, Problem solved – this is Salvini’s populist recipe. A small number of EU States, led by France and Germany, do not want to join this Bingo now. You want to reach a permanent agreement, who must take as many Rescued on a regular basis.
Europe correspondent Bernd Riegert (currently Helsinki)
That interior Minister Seehofer’s commitment for a solution, is probably due to the brave captain Carola Missiles, which caused with your reckless Anlegemänover on Lampedusa headlines around the world. You need to answer today of all days, the day on which the Minister of the interior in the Helsinki days in Italy before the Prosecutor’s office. Because you brought the exhausted migrants at the country, want to Italy to see the Minister of the interior Salvini, the “pirate”, as he calls them wrongly, in prison. The case, made in Germany for a wave of solidarity, and also brought the lumbering mills of the koaltionsregierung in Berlin again.
No one wants to be responsible
However, the Minister of the interior was meeting in Helsinki clear: nothing can be moved only once. An agreement has been postponed until at least September. The pathetic game must continue. This is mainly due to the fact that the record-ready States and Italy in a point to find each other. The EU countries want to record people, the prospect of asylum. Other migrants to stay in Italy. But at least 70 percent. Matteo Salvini wants to distribute all of the migrants immediately to other countries and not the hopeless cases sit. He knows that he can deport hardly in their countries of origin. They would remain in Italy. The receiving countries, such as Germany, know of course, that they could not deport the hapless asylum seekers. Therefore, they insist that the applicable procedural rules and the people be registered in Italy. In Italy, it is decided who is in need of protection and who is not. This can take months. More months will it take until the rest of the States comply with their Commitments effectively and asylum seekers to pick up.
Even if it eventually succeeds, to organize, at least for the relatively few people who will be brought in by sea rescuers to Europe, a temporary distribution, the larger, all overarching unresolved at the end of Problem. The EU needs a reformed asylum system, where responsibilities and admission quotas are regulated. However, from this giant step, the hopelessly divided Union is still very far away. For years will be negotiated. Especially the Eastern European States block here, in Association with Italy and Austria any progress.
The new startup of the new President
The new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced a new attempt to break this Gordian knot. So you will not have much luck, as long as populists govern like Salvini’s in Italy, Hungary or Poland. The can generate from the permanent crisis on Migration excellent approval with voters, even if the absolute number of the people who make it to Europe, continues to fall dramatically. So why change course? It comes to their own interests, not for mercy with refugees or migrants.