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The Balkan countries and Austria make tight. Greece is excluded. In Europe fights back against each. The dispute shows the whole helplessness of the EU in the refugee crisis, says Bernd Riegert.
Dead end Idomeni in Greece: The Balkan route will be shut down
The Viennese Balkan-conference, without the beginning and the end of the refugee route via the Balkans, namely Greece and Germany, was held, shows mainly one thing: The EU is on the refugee crisis failed. Each member state thinks about his interests and tried, refugees and migrants to deter.
The “European solution”, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the recent EU summit a few days ago, fantasized, there are not. And it is also at the next EU summit with Turkey on 7. March will not give. It would have been a miracle if Turkey suddenly your border to Greece in locking and all the refugees and migrants themselves wanted to record, and could.
At the end of any similarities
The States on the Balkan route, as well as Austria wait no longer call or a change of policy in Berlin, they act. The border between Macedonia and Greece is only for obvious war refugees from Syria and Iraq passable. All others will be refused. The Balkans see for Syrians only as a transit country, as the Minister of the interior in Vienna once again made it clear. Austria extends all the up to day 80, the examination of an asylum application are allowed to make to Germany next. In this logic calls for Austria, the nomination of a cap from Germany, this one is at the borders in the Balkans to know how many people you are able to pass. The German government, peeved about the Austrian thrusting, turns stubborn, plays on time and hopes. But on what actually?
DW’s Europe correspondent Bernd Riegert
On the European solidarity in the distribution of refugees from Greece or Turkey, you no longer need to hope. The numerous European Meeting will probably crystal clear. Now it goes to the EU States to their own borders to protect. The burden is mainly on Greece to be unloaded. The economically heavily damaged and just as inept as the unwilling left-Right Radicals, who ruled the country with the Thousands of refugees and migrants who continue to arrive, not even finished. The Austria-Balkankoalition and the Rest of the EU, risking a complete collapse in Greece and a disaster for the refugees and migrants.
Deter instead of forward
It is a cool calculation that the Austrian interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner weeks ago employed. Greece can and wants the migrants and refugees are not staying. Therefore, Greece is now de facto out of the EU-border regime is excluded. The new EU external border runs between Greece and Macedonia, and between Greece and Bulgaria. All you have to do the terrible images of the stranded and desperate refugees and migrants from Greece, to the people to deter said Mikl-Leitner. After a few weeks would be North Africans, Afghans, and perhaps Iraqis and Syrians then not come because they knew they had no Chance to Northern Europe.
This is the simple and at the same time cynical strategy. The was in Vienna, now to the factory set. Greece threatens to meanwhile, therefore, the accession of the Balkan countries of Serbia and Montenegro to the EU with a Veto on. This contributes not just to a better political atmosphere in the Region, and isolated Athens. The location is dramatic and procedures. The victims are first of all the refugees and migrants in Athens and Idomeni on the road camping. They sit in the case, because back in Turkey, you can also not. A theoretically possible Repatriation fails because of the rejection of the Turkey.
The people will come
So what will probably happen? If the Balkan route is closed, the flow of people in new ways. From Greece to Albania and further to Italy? From Libya and Egypt to Italy? From Turkey to Bulgaria? “Border closures are having individual countries are not the solution.” That’s not saying anyone, but the head of the EU border management Agency Frontex. He also says that this year, despite the new lock and Caps-politics on the Balkan route, again, more than a Million refugees and migrants will come.
In Vienna the meeting of Ministers has now decided that Menschenwanderung to drastically limit – no matter what, if Greece will be sacrificed. Europe would otherwise break, says Austrian foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. It breaks already. Because in the migration policy is now: everyone against Everyone.
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