Refugees
Visegrad makes its own migration policy
The Visegrad countries want to take the Balkan route locking. You could make it to Greece in fact from the Schengen Zone to exclude. The four Eastern European countries make the Chancellor for the refugees responsible.
The Visegrad group consists of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. 25 years ago the group was founded, the European Integration of the four former Communist States. Today, the four countries, though long the EU members. But now they seem to have more of the European division to advance.
The idea of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, refugees on the EU to distribute, is to them an abomination. Also the Plan that Turkey refugees on the journey to Europe hinders and the EU to Turkey for Flüchtlingskontingente decreases, reject it. “Quotas”, said the Slovak foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak in the news magazine “Der Spiegel”, “just increase the incentives for Migration.” In General, the Visegrad governments, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the Flüchtlingszustrom responsible. “The idea is simple,” the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico recently sarcastically: “I invite me to guest a, and when I realize that me be too much, I knock on the door of the neighbors and say to him: take Care of my guests.” These neighbors do not want to be.
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No other choice?
The Visegrad countries want to now the Problem on your own to solve. You want to the Balkan route area. As before, go every day hundreds of refugees from Turkey to Greece and from there through Macedonia further North. For your asylum case would be, actually, Greece is an EU-Zutrittsland responsible. But Greece feels overwhelmed and leaves the most refugees simply continue.
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, you have no other choice: “If it were up to us would have gone to would be the Region had long been closed off,” he said recently. The Slovak foreign Minister Lajcak told the mirror: “as Long as a common European strategy is missing, it is legitimate that the States on the Balkan route your boundaries protect. We will help you.” Orban believes, is not only vested interests to pursue, but a pan-European Mission: “We need the security of the continent.” Compared to Macedonia, and other States on the Balkan route, to seal yourself off, see the Visegrad heads of state and government your claim is not as pressure but as support. The Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka speaks of “solidarity” with the countries of the Western Balkans.
As the Central and Eastern European EU States already in the last autumn refused, significant Numbers of refugees to record, did so in the West of the EU a lot of criticism. It was even in the conversation, you to the punishment of the EU aid to be cut short. But now they have more and more followers. At the weekend rejected even the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls fixed odds and fell to Merkel in the back. Austria, too, tends more and more towards foreclosure.
Schengen more and more under pressure
If Macedonia and Bulgaria actually your border to Greece locking, amounted practically to an exclusion of Greece from the grenzkontrollfreien Schengen Zone. Even in Merkel’s CDU is Schengen in its previous Form is no longer sacrosanct. Wolfgang Steiger, General Secretary of the CDU economic Council, told the newspaper “The world”, if a country of its obligations to secure the EU external borders violated, “it must have Schengen in the direction of Central Europe move”.
For Greece would be a lockdown in the North mean that it is on the refugees sitzenbliebe. The Greek government is already trying, the country sure to tune in. “We have to be on a (large) number of people to prepare, in Greece remain,” said the Migration competent Deputy Minister Ioannis Mouzalas of the newspaper “Avgi”. Italy warns already, the example of going to school, they will also enter many of the refugees for the first time the soil of the EU. As well as Greece, Italy again and again refugees simply waved through. Laura Boldrini, the President of the Italian chamber of deputies, was of the Greek media on a trip to Greece with the words quoted: “The idea of exclusion, today in Greece and tomorrow Italy, is a departure from the principles and values of Europe.”
Germany’s foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier sees the Abriegelungsplänen a great danger. Together with his party friend and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has he sent a letter to all social-democratic EU heads of government, foreign Ministers and leaders of written. It States: “You can not just Europe’s external borders, to redefine, and even over the head of the member States concerned of time.” The two Politer fear that in the already economically battered Greece then all Chaos breaks out. Much time no longer remains for a common European solution. On Thursday, the heads of state and government in Brussels is a further attempt to start. It is likely one of the last.