Refugees
The EU hopes on Erdogan
The Turkey should be against money and political concessions in Europe’s refugee problem, help solve. This is what it is with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Ankara. But so far, wait for the Europeans to no avail.
Never sat the Turkey in the negotiations with the EU on such a long lever as it is now. It is by far the most important transit country for refugees and migrants to Europe want. Almost desperate hope to the Europeans that Turkey is the people within our own country supplies them to a journey in the EU prevents. Already in November, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker; the European Parliament: “Whether we like or not, we need Turkey to cooperate.”
Concerns about the human rights or freedom of the press in Turkey, since the Commission and the Council takes a back seat. The EU even wants to the long blocked accession negotiations boost and has visumsfreies travel for Turkish citizens already in October of this year in prospect. These are All things that a year ago would have been unthinkable. First of all, want Brussels but for the Concession made by Turkey to pay at least three billion Euro it is supposed to be. Ankara, however, has already made it clear that this amount is not enough will and also demanded the assistance of NATO to the Schlepperkriminalität on the Turkish coast to fight.
The topic freedom of the press, sums up the EU Turkey at the Moment with kid gloves to
However, no matter how much money it will be at the end, the EU is waiting for the agreement to the actions. Even now in the Winter, put each day hundreds, often thousands of people from Turkey to the nearby Greek Islands. The dissatisfaction is at all levels and in all parties in the European Parliament feel to it. “The action plan was already two months ago decided, and it is still missing a significant decline in the number of migrants”, said EU Commissioner for enlargement, Johannes Hahn, the Reuters news Agency.
Were the political concessions a mistake?
The Austrian Federal Chancellor, Werner Faymann, whose government recently an upper limit for the intake of refugees has decided to, also wants, that the Turkey refugees back, it was already after Greece managed to have. The newspaper “Austria”, said Faymann: “It must all be saved, but then the people need to be sent back to Turkey.” Just as it looks, the German interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière. The withdrawal was part of the agreement was from November.
Many MEPs do have abdominal pain because of the political concessions to Ankara. Manfred Weber, the Chairman of the conservative EPP group, who is also Merkel’s CDU belongs, said the “Münchener Merkur”: “A complete Liberalisation from the current perspective it is difficult to conceive.” The negotiations for this hung by a decline in the Flüchtlingszahlen, Weber said. And “in no case may gradual visa facilitation to a larger flow of migrants to Europe.”
The FDP MEP Alexander Graf Lambsdorff throws Merkel, you give of your own failure. The radio station Deutschlandfunk said Lambsdorff: “Repeated trips to Turkey are not a substitute for your own organized refugee policy of the Federal government, and which is missing here as before.” At the European level, there must be a joint coast guard and a common asylum and Comes to give, said the FDP politician.
More and more Syrian refugees want to in Turkey
Grünenpolitiker Cem Özdemir hoped for from three billion to Ankara not much: “Just Pay it will not solve,” said Özdemir the TV station MDR. Many Turks on the coast would have no interest in an end of the Crossings to Greece, so Özdemir. Because “the Schlepperunwesen is part of the Turkish Economy.”
Ankara should be receiving refugees, not forward
Then it looks at the Moment, hardly. On the Syrian-Turkish border
waiting by the recent struggles of the nordsyrische city of Aleppo, already more tens of thousands of Syrians on admission. Turkey has in principle agreed to those seeking help not to be rejected. Popular is this decision in Turkey is not. The EU calls on Turkey to its border against Syrian refugees hold open. But route to Europe, should Ankara not it. Germany’s foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at the weekend after a Ministerial meeting in Amsterdam: “Turkey has experience with the accommodation of Syrian refugees.” Critics see this as hypocritical.
The Turkish foreign Minister, Mevlüt Cavusoglu claimed on the weekend, already got less people to Greece, via Turkey. Contrary representations were “manipulations in the media of several European capitals”. The Turkey goes in the case of such representations is probably why your powerful lever in negotiations with the EU in the Hand to keep. It should be possible, the price is still to drive up.