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The EU at its borders: “Now we just see violence”
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Applicable law is being broken at all external borders of the European Union, because the refugees are being turned away with increasing brutality. Dictators take advantage of this and try to blackmail the EU. This is also criticized by the author of the EU-Turkey deal.
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“Politically persecuted people enjoy the right to asylum” – this is Article 16a of the German Basic Law, which is based on the Geneva Convention on Refugees. This is actually what the European Union has also committed to doing. But the situation at the EU’s external borders is becoming more and more complicated – and more and more brutal.
There is more and more talk of push-backs, i.e. the illegal and often violent rejection of people at the borders. Other countries are also trying to blackmail the EU. The Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, for example, has migrants flown inside his country and smuggled them to the EU’s external borders, where these people are increasingly coming to Germany via Poland.
Gerald Knaus is a migration researcher and helped design the EU’s Turkey deal. He warns of the end of the refugee convention: “If the Europeans, as the richest continent, deal so brutally with irregular migrants and asylum seekers, other countries will not stick to it either.”
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