After the refugee summit in the Chancellery, Pro Asyl sharply criticized the fact that the federal and state governments wanted to campaign for asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders. Pro Asyl was “shocked that the summit led to a financial agreement at the expense of the human rights of people fleeing,” said Pro Asyl’s legal policy spokeswoman, Wiebke Judith, to the newspapers of the Funke media group (Thursday editions).
“Detention centers on the EU’s external borders are the recipe for a human rights disaster,” criticized Judith and demanded that the federal government “urgently return to a human rights-based policy”. It is to be hoped “that the same debate will not rage in a few weeks – because this public discussion was grist for the mills of the right-wing populists,” she complained.
According to the decision paper of the meeting in the Chancellery, the federal government wants to work in the course of the planned EU asylum reform to ensure that procedures for certain groups of people are already mandatory “at the EU’s external borders”. It is about people “who are likely to have a low chance of being granted international protection,” as the paper says. Returns should then be made directly from there. In recent years, however, attempts at asylum reform have repeatedly failed due to the different interests of the EU member states.
