Refugees

Europe struggles to Schengen freedom

Under the pressure of a new migration of refugees looking for the EU foreign Ministers in Amsterdam to solutions. The much-heralded danger: the end of Schengen. Hungary and Austria want refugees with soldiers to stop.

“Grenzschließung is no solution’: EU foreign policy chief Mogherini with Luxembourg foreign Minister Asselborn

Hungary supported Austria’s proposal, about Greece coming refugees through the use of police and soldiers on the border to Macedonia to stop. If Greece is not willing or in the position, the outer border of the EU to protect the need for the EU to “another line of defense,” said the Hungarian foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. This must be “obvious in Macedonia and Bulgaria” to be built, so Szijjarto at a Meeting with his EU colleagues in Amsterdam. At the talks also take several Balkan countries and Turkey part.

The Greece border of Macedonia is a candidate country of the European Union. A member of the EU Bulgaria has a common border with Greece and the European part of Turkey. Greece stands for months under pressure, because the majority of there arriving refugees unhindered through the Balkans towards Central Europe and Northern Europe travel.

“Then we will find other ways”

Austria’s foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz had on Friday explained, Macedonia and other Balkan countries, are prepared with the EU on border security to work together. He also referred to the difficulties of Greece, the EU external border with Turkey to secure. If Athens this does not soon succeed, “we will find other ways”, it was Short.

Soldiers in Macedonia? Austria’s foreign Minister Shortly before the press

However, said EU Commissioner for enlargement, Johannes Hahn, the countries on the Balkans are not likely to be “to the Parking lot for the refugees”. He warned of a “Domino effect”, if individual States tried to single-handedly solutions to enforce. “We need a European solution,” he said in Amsterdam. This means also the reinforcement of the EU’s external borders.

Migration in the slipstream?

On the sidelines of the meeting, the Austrian EU Commissioner, pointed out, that now less than 40 per cent in Greece incoming refugees Syrians were – and of these, might have some a false passport. “This is a new and additional Dimension, so to speak, in the Lee of the refugee crisis now a reinforced Migrationsstrom”, said Hahn.

With a view to the fierce battles in the Syrian city of Aleppo, this could quickly change again. Hahn called on Turkey to its border with Syria for people to open up the front of the Fighting fleas. It is true, as before the Geneva Convention, “according to which refugees are,” says Hahn. Tens Of Thousands Of Syrians
wait next to the inlet in the Turkey.

More and more people buildup at the Syrian border crossing of Bab al-Salama, where you are in Turkey want to reach

New Flüchtlingsansturm foreseeable

Luxembourg foreign Minister Jean Asselborn called for talks with Russia to end the Syrian Offensive in the province of Aleppo. Russia supports, as ally of the Assad regime, the government forces in Syria. Due to the fights, so Asselborn, come with a high probability of “now a great flood of people to us”.

So the EU foreign Minister on the one hand, under the compulsion of events and the commandment, in the court seeking protection assistance. On the other hand, move in the field, to those EU States not to overtax the already large number of refugees have taken – and at the same time, the freedom to travel the Schengen area with its open borders to preserve. The Schengen agreement are a majority of the EU countries and Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland joined.

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Refugees – but not let

The view of the migration of refugees re-introduced border controls could in the medium term, the end of the Schengen area. The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in Amsterdam, don’t you think that the Closing of borders is a solution. Also, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned for the umpteenth Time, the European freedom to travel to defend. “We need to make our external borders to protect, because we have the Schengen want to get,” said Merkel in her weekly video podcast.

Merkel will meet on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. An action plan of the EU provides Turkey three billion euros for the accommodation of refugees, to pay: Ankara should you – but not to travel. On the occasion of the German-Turkish government consultations two weeks ago in Berlin, Davutoglu said higher monetary claims indicated. The previous Promises were “only there is the political will to sharing the burden to show,” he said at the time. “No one can Turkey expect the entire burden alone to bear.”

jj/se (dpa, afp, rtr)