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The EU wants to escape more difficult
At the first EU summit of the year, the dispute escalated over the
Refugee policy. The unilateral decisions to go for the time being. A European solution is at the beginning of March at a special summit sought. Bernd Riegert, Brussels.
It was pretty lonely for German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the discussion on refugee policy at the dinner. The summit participants heard their plea for the Turkey-EU plan of action for the better protection of the external borders of the EU, but many could not convince, report, EU diplomats. Not a single one of the heads of state and government, according to these Reports the Plan of the German Chancellor to support, after sealing off the external borders, refugees directly from Turkey for quotas on all EU States to distribute.
Information that there was a heated discussion to have been, wanted to be Angela Merkel in her press conference early in the Morning not confirm. On quotas and distribution had not been spoken, said Merkel. “These are the next and the next but one step.” The EU member States insist that the distribution of the refugees only on a voluntary Basis could be done. Two hours tried the German Delegation to the written conclusions of the summit to defuse. There reaffirm the States their right, illegal foreigners migrants directly in the secure state of shirk, from which the come. In practice, this means that all of the refugees or asylum seekers on the Balkan route up to Greece to be sent back. A defusing of the text, the Germans were not, reported to a Czech Diplomat.
Durchwinken in the Balkans should stop
Austria’s interior Minister Mikl-Leitner: maximum
The “politics of the Durchwinkens” to Austria or Germany must cease calls for the final document. Criticized the slow implementation of previous decisions on the protection of external borders and for the registration of Travellers in Greece. “We need to be faster”, said the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borrisow, whose country is soon for the Detour route for refugees, it could be. The Austrian Federal Chancellor, after the summit meeting, announced that the upper Limits of 80 asylum applications and 3200 to Travel towards Germany, from Saturday to enforce. This could be on the Balkan route a backlog of several limits generate fear, the leaders of Slovenia, Croatia and Greece.
On the question of how the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the new Austrian border policy reacts, said the Austrian Prime Minister Werner Faymann: “she has no distinct joy.” Austria wanted to make it clear that it can’t go on. His country had in the last year, asylum applications are received than the much larger countries of Italy and France. EU diplomats said after this recent dispute within the EU, that the so-called “coalition of the willing” along the “Balkan route” is seriously in danger or even non-existent.
Special Summit At The Beginning Of March
Rechtsradikaler Protest against Hotspots in Athens
As a way out of the intractable situation struck Angela Merkel a special summit of the EU with Turkey, is already in 14 days is supposed to take place. The rest of the government agreed. So some time is gained. At the beginning of March should then balance to be drawn, whether it is possible together with Turkey the number of visits to Greece to reduce. Then you should see “what other action on the Turkey-plan of action also need to be taken,” said Angela Merkel. Because of the terrorist attack in Ankara was the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said the originally planned participation in the Brussels summit this Thursday, RSVP.
EU Council President Donald Tusk called on the EU member States in the Migrationskrise, “European solutions to find and not on national unilateral measures.” The uncoordinated measures that are meant to be Grenzverstärkungen between Macedonia and the EU-country Greece, would have to stop.
That the EU is now adjourned and a special summit on the airstrip, is assessed by the Director of the think tank “Centre for European Policy Studies, Daniel Gros, Brussels skeptical. “It is true that the EU as an Institution is currently relatively helpless. But it happens a lot in Greece and the Balkans, which will result in the flow of refugees but considerably decreases. So you can perhaps allow the Problem on the long Bank to push,” said Gros of the German wave.
“Cascade with obstacles”
Daniel Gros: the EU as an Institution is weakened
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has cooperation with Turkey in the refugee issue is an absolute priority. So doing the EU is very dependent on Turkey, writes Daniel Gros. In the refugee go there now is to the people as many obstacles as possible in the way to put off the trip to the EU to hold off. “Ideally, if you wanted to Yes, the refugees in the Region itself, i.e. in Turkey, in Lebanon and in other countries. Only this is so not organize, especially not with the Turkey in her present state. Therefore, there is realistically no other solution than a cascade of obstacles to develop the EU external border in this indirect way to protect it.”
The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi blurted out during the evening Flüchtlingsdebatte the collar. From his country should be thousands of refugees in other EU States, which has not yet been done. If that’s not soon to pass, one must think about the unwilling Eastern European countries, the financial support from Brussels to be cut short. Hungary rejected this threat immediately. This was “political blackmail” grumbled a Hungarian government spokesman in Budapest.
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EU summit: the struggle for ‘Brexit’ (18.02.2016)
This Episode shows how tense the mood among the member States of the EU now is. Earlier it was always the Mantra from crises, the EU is going stronger. Whether the this time will be doubted Daniel Gros, head of the think tank “Centre for European Policy Studies: “Unfortunately, you have to say, the opportunities dwindle and the difficulties increase.” At the end, but could still be something Positive left over, so strong compared to the DW. “Because there is the proposal of the EU Commission, a new kind of border police. The is probably for this crisis to come in late, but if you then later created, it could be for the next crisis prove useful.”