While the Mediterranean countries are pressuring other EU partners to show more solidarity in taking in refugees, the ÖVP is loudly thinking about revising the European Convention on Human Rights. “We now have a different situation than was the case a few decades ago when these laws were written,” emphasizes club boss August Wöginger. However, this initiative is rejected by the Green coalition partner.
“For seven years, the European Union has failed to put on the table viable solutions for the protection of its external borders. This is a call for Europe to get to work,” Wöginger stressed to the “Standard” on Friday, pointing out that Austria “currently has the second highest per capita burden in Europe.” In mid-October, Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) sharply criticized the EU Commission and expressed the expectation that asylum policy would “take off”. However, he did not advocate changes to the ECHR. Exactly what changes Wöginger is demanding remains unclear.
For Greens “non-negotiable”
Wöginger receives no support from his coalition partner for his initiative. “No, OVP. That is non-negotiable,” Green security spokesperson and lawyer Georg Bürstmayr wrote on Twitter on Saturday afternoon. There is “no need for changes” in the ECHR, the Greens told orf.at on Saturday. The human rights treaty is “a great achievement of the European community of states” and guarantees “the observance of human rights”. “The ÖVP is called upon to participate in the actual solution of the problems rather than launching populist diversions and questioning human rights,” the Greens said.
Blaue delighted: “ÖVP adopts FPÖ’s approach”
FPÖ Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz expressed his satisfaction and criticism. The ÖVP adopts “an approach of the FPÖ, for which Herbert Kickl was scandalized during his time as interior minister,” it said in an FPÖ broadcast on Saturday.
The ECHR was drafted in 1950 by the Council of Europe, which includes all European countries except Belarus and Russia. The ECHR is of particular importance to Austria, as it has constitutional status in that country. Unlike other countries, Austria does not have its own extensive catalog of fundamental rights. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), an institution independent of the European Union, monitors compliance with the ECHR.
Source: Krone
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