Merkel, EU Attack Austria’s Refugee Quotas
Earlier this week, Austria announced plans to cap the daily and annual number of refugees it would accept. That’s the start of a sensible plan.
Nonetheless, and as easily expected, Austria’s program is already under attack by the EU, by EC president Jean-Claude-Juncker, and by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Today, the EU says Austria Asylum Move Breaches Geneva Convention.
The EU has condemned a move by Austria to cap the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country, accusing Vienna of breaking international laws and calling on it to reverse the policy.
Officials said Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, would deliver an admonishment to Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, at a dinner on Thursday evening in Brussels, where EU leaders have gathered for a summit. Mr Faymann’s German counterpart, Angela Merkel, is also expected to criticise the move, EU officials said.
Vienna this week announced plans to limit the number of refugees who could apply for asylum at the Austrian border to 80 a day. Critics said this contravened the Geneva Convention, of which Austria is a founding signatory, that stated countries were required to hear all applications by refugees seeking asylum.
Under its policy, Austria would still allow people to travel through the country to apply for asylum in Germany, although this number would be capped at 3,200 a day.
But this directly contradicts previous efforts by Brussels to stop countries “waving through” migrants, in a bid to control the flow of people heading to northern Europe along the so-called western Balkans route, which stretches from Greece to Germany via the former Yugoslavia.
Schengen Violations
Please recall that the Schengen Agreement, to which 26 European countries are signatories, requires refugees to apply for asylum in the first country they enter.
That’s an admittedly stupid regulation since it puts huge pressure on countries on the periphery of the Schengen area. Nonetheless, that’s the rule.
Greece, a Schengen country, borders non-Schengen Turkey, and under the agreement, Greece is supposed to bear the brunt of registering millions of refugees entering Europe.
Economic Refugees
However, neither the Schengen agreement nor the Geneva convention controls the migration of economic refugees.
Logic dictates that those fleeing war-torn Syria already escaped Syria once they arrived in Turkey. At that point, any further movement into Europe is for economic reasons, not political ones.
Neither the Geneva convention nor the Schengen agreement should even come into play.
“Just Say No”
Austria could and arguably should do the smart thing: block 100% of economic-refugees. Such a move would also block terrorists posing as refugees.
Instead, Austria has agreed to take 80 refugees a day. Austria should be praised for its generosity!
For events leading up to today’s “Just Say No”: Austria Announces Daily Quotas on Refugees: Yearly Flow Reduced to 37,500 from 1,000,000.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
IMPEACH Merkel and Obama asap … !!!!!!!
Merkel = Obama = QUISLING … !!!!!!
“requires refugees to apply to for asylum in the first country they enter.”
has no sense. Refugees are not Schengen subjects and so the text is merely a procedural agreement between Schengen members. Germany clearly and knowingly accepts refugees and migrants who have passed through other Schengen states. Now does it think it has leverage to enforce border policy and its own quota system on other nations? Does it expect other countries to absorb refugees and migrants attracted to EU due to northen European reception, on its terms?
Why – because Germany is more compassionate or because the rest of Europe is useful to it?
Germany recently regraded Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco as ‘safe countries’ so that it might repatriate all migrants from those countries. I will believe it if and when, it is more likely refugees and migrants will change countries within EU to avoid that, but in the meantime the flow from those countries has stopped. Simple.
Syrian refugees get helped in the first safe country, Turkey. That is the way. Simple. Let us here Turkish rejection of an internationally funded plan before stating otherwise.
So frankly Germany and countries that welcome refugees and migrants unnescessarily only to dump them on their neighbours in a grand jest of moral rectitude for which all others, including migrants, pay the price, is WRONG,
Surely, the taxpayers in these countries won’t mind when the (large) bill arrives to pay for these refugees.
Everyone enjoys hefty tax increases. Right? …. Right??
Seems to have gone very quiet all of a sudden , like when the bill arrives after an expensive meal and no one is offering to pay.
I think it was stated in the Dublin Agreement that refugees had to apply for asylum in the first country they’d arrived in.
I think it was stated in the Dublin Agreement that refugees had to apply for asylum in the first EU country they arrive at.
Extermination. Genocide.
No need , the Vatican just offered to open its doors to all as a demonstration of how to be Christian .
Tell us how it works out .
Vatican is surrounded by huge walls and has the strictest immigration policy in the planet and took a whopping 2 Syrian christian families and the Pope is acting holier than thou and trying to become involved in politics by hitting Trump in the head with religion.
The current Pope just made a ridiculous fool of himself.
Geneva conventions do NOT force an obligation to take an Asylum application from everybody who says “asylum” it obliges countries to NOT to return people to frontiers or territories where:
“No Contracting State shall expel or return (‘refouler’) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion” (Article 33(1))”
And because people are passing through to Austria via Slovenia which is a peaceful european country Austria could stop accepting “refugees” aka people who have learned to say the word “asylum” completely and tell these people to seek asylum in Slovenia.
Likewise there is no obligation for Austria to let up to 3000 to go through Austria to Germany but I think Austria is just trying to show the utter and complete madness or Angela Merkel who should be taken under custodianship because she is destroying Germany and putting whole of Europe into danger by her open-doors invitation policy where she invites people to come and gives them free apartments and free money and then cries that people drown between Turkey and Greece when trying to get to Europe to get free apartments and free money (that have been given most easily by Germany and Sweden but also too laxly by Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Finland etc.) and Merkels insane response is to give even more free apartments and free money and let everybody come and say nobody will be turned back and demand that other countries also take people and give free apartment and free money through the EU-burdensharing which just incentivizes more people to come because under burdensharing (if it would be operational as originally planned) people would just need to reach Greece to get lift by EU to around europe thereby making getting free apartments and free money even easier.
If Austria closed the border completely Slovenia would do the same in under 24 hours as would Serbia and Macedonia so everybody would be forced to stay in Greece which does NOT give free money and free apartments like countries from Austria northwards do so THERE WOULD BE NO INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE TO CROSS FROM TURKEY TO GREECE ANYMORE!
Borders should be closed and all the people currently being in Greece should be kept in EU-funded refugee camps in Greece where they should get NOTHING EXTRA compared to the refugee camps in Turkey where Turkey gives a tent with electric heater and fod and water and some schooling for the kids and NOTHING ELSE so the people currently in Turkey would stay there.
Factually everybody could be returned from Greece back to Turkey since they DO NOT want to seek Asylum in Greece because they now that Greece does not give free apartments and free money and Turkey is SAFE for these people.
The burden on Turkey would also be lessened because this kind of closing of borders would cause iraqis, afganistanis and somalis to stay in their countries peaceful parts instead of trying to reach Europe through Turkey.
Also completely meritless pakistanis, algerians, moroccans, tunisians, gambians,. etc. etc. would stay in their home countries.
EU is completely inept and Juncker is a delusional fool.
Geneva conventions do NOT force an obligation to take Asylum applications from everybody who says “asylum” it obliges countries to NOT to return people to frontiers or territories where:
“No Contracting State shall expel or return (‘refouler’) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion” (Article 33(1))”
And because people are passing through to Austria via Slovenia, which is a peaceful european country, Austria could stop accepting “refugees” aka people who have learned to say the word “asylum” completely and tell these people to seek asylum in Slovenia.
Likewise there is no obligation for Austria to let up to 3000 to go through Austria to Germany.
I think Austria is just trying to show the utter and complete madness or Angela Merkel who should be taken under custodianship because she is destroying Germany and putting whole of Europe into danger by her open-doors invitation policy where she invites people to come and gives them free apartments and free money and then cries that people drown between Turkey and Greece when trying to get to Europe to get free apartments and free money (that have been given most easily by Germany and Sweden but also too laxly by Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Finland etc.) and Merkels insane response is to give even more free apartments and free money and let everybody come and say nobody will be turned back and demand that other countries also take people and give free apartment and free money through the EU-burdensharing which just incentivizes more people to come because under burdensharing (if it would be operational as originally planned) people would just need to reach Greece to get lift by EU to around europe thereby making getting free apartments and free money even easier.
If Austria closed the border completely Slovenia would do the same in under 24 hours as would Serbia and Macedonia so everybody would be forced to stay in Greece which does NOT give free money and free apartments like countries from Austria northwards do so THERE WOULD BE NO INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE TO CROSS FROM TURKEY TO GREECE ANYMORE!
Borders should be closed and all the people currently being in Greece should be kept in EU-funded refugee camps in Greece where they should get NOTHING EXTRA compared to the refugee camps in Turkey where Turkey gives a tent with electric heater and fod and water and some schooling for the kids and NOTHING ELSE so the people currently in Turkey would stay there.
Factually everybody could be returned from Greece back to Turkey since they DO NOT want to seek Asylum in Greece because they now that Greece does not give free apartments and free money and Turkey is SAFE for these people.
The burden on Turkey would also be lessened because this kind of closing of borders would cause iraqis, afganistanis and somalis to stay in their countries peaceful parts instead of trying to reach Europe through Turkey.
Also completely meritless pakistanis, algerians, moroccans, tunisians, gambians,. etc. etc. would stay in their home countries.
EU is completely inept and Juncker is a delusional fool who is responsible together with Merkel/Germany, Löfven/Sweden and the happless Greeks who have not registered people for years and whose “pass right on through to northern europe” -policy came even more lenient under the leftist Syriza who is all for open borders but somebody else should give the free apartments, free money and take care of millions of people trying to reach paradise of europe where bureaucrats in several western europen countries before year 2015 were actually competing on who is the most lax and gives most asylums even to people who demonstrably tell lies and fairytales to immigration authorities deciding on their asylum cases but still got asylum because the bureaucrats worried that hopefully we are not stricter than our neighbor country and thought “oh there is so few people coming, we can manage this because we are a wealthy society” for years before 2015 exposed european countries total insanity whose rots were laid in earlier years.
Europe is becoming an absurdity .