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Comment: Waiting for a miracle
The implementation of the refugee Pact between the EU and Turkey can not succeed until Monday. The agreed deportations from Greece are not so responsible, says Bernd Riegert.
The camp of Moria in Lesbos: refugees are held in detention until deportation
I wish I had written, and finally has even worked a little in the implementation of European decisions. But, unfortunately, not in this topic. A few days, and even hours before the first refugees from Greece will be pushed back to Turkey, it is unclear whether this project is legal and how it practically will expire.
The heads of state and government of the EU had on 18. March with the Turkish Premier made a Pact, the drawbridge to the fortress of Europe to pull up. The Pact for the closure of the sea border between Turkey and Greece, Greece will rectify within days, what was for many years neglected: the establishment of a legally and humanly fair asylum procedure. In addition, Turkey should ensure that refugees and rejected asylum-seekers shall enjoy the protection due to them under the Geneva refugee Convention and international law. The member States of thousands (!) of officials in March, in order to ensure to the Greek Islands and in Turkey, for proper procedures. Little of that has happened so far.
Hustle and bustle in the last Minute
In the very last Minute to do over the weekend, almost an administrative technical miracle to find the missing pieces to the puzzle. Frantic EU diplomats negotiate in Turkey. The goal is to transport from Monday to refugees from Lesvos to Turkey, the EU Commission is stubborn. She is under a lot of pressure and wants to deliver.
DW-Europe correspondent Bernd Riegert
The High Commissioner for refugees United Nations (UNHCR) has renewed its criticism that the procedure laid down quickly, the possible deportation prisons and mass deportations legally are questionable. Fencing the EU but not to. What does not fit is made suitable.
As Turkey moves but actually with Syrian refugees, and asylum seekers from Iraq or Afghanistan, you don’t want to know in Brussels. The Problem is to be outsourced to, has decided the refugee summit. And it has to remain.
Eyes?
The EU member States will not be reduced once again to the scissors, what have you decided, two weeks ago, the confidence in the club. Committed staff, has not been sent. Just 70 additional officers from the EU are actually in Greece. How the refugees and asylum seekers, to be pushed back, be heard, and to a method according to EU-Standards should be granted, the mystery of the processes responsible EU-Commission.
At the Moment, around 8000 people are expected to stop in the Greek Islands, the back would have to in Turkey. And still new refugee boats arrive daily. Deterrence works, but probably, because the number of new arrivals has decreased since the refugee summit. At the same time, the number of people, the car is now back to the journey from Libya to Italy is increasing. The relief of the heads of state and government, that they were able to flip the Turkey, the refugee problem before the feet could soon be available, if the refugees choose other routes. The UNHCR warns constantly that the EU can not close off permanently.
Emergency brake pull!
The EU had the Return of refugees, and the direct resettlement of some of the Lucky few directly from Turkey, the largest logistical Operation, which has taken the in-house. It threatens to be a Flop. The EU Commission and Turkey should now pull the emergency brake and, at least, the deadlines change. The 4. April as the date for the beginning of the Operation. A shift of one, two or three weeks would be embarrassing, but still better than a legally untenable methods.
For the nearly 50,000 people who, because of the closed of the Balkan route to the Greek mainland are stuck and not under the repatriation Pact fall, there is still no solution. A scandal, in which the Rest of the EU is not looking strong. Refugees that arrive in front of its own door-to-door, no longer interested in Austria, France or Germany. The masters of Greece now. Beautiful European solidarity.
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