Rejection at the border – Dornauer supports Karner in the asylum issue

The deputy governor of the SPÖ in Tyrol, Georg Dornauer, supports Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Chancellor Karl Nehammer (both ÖVP) in their call for an EU-level rejection directive to reduce the number of asylum applications. Dornauer told the APA Tuesday after meeting Karner in Vienna. He has assured the minister of his political support, even though this may be legally difficult.

Matthijs is sceptical
Dornauer clearly does not fit in here Tyrol Governor and Karner party friend Anton Mattle (ÖVP). Last week he was skeptical or even against such a refusal directive at EU level. At a press conference, Mattle said he was “rather of the opinion” that there should be centers at the entrances of Europe, in which the initial examination would be carried out to determine whether someone had a chance of a positive asylum procedure or not. .

Individual checks are then no longer necessary
With a refusal policy, a case-by-case assessment would no longer be necessary. Such a directive would allow rejections without an asylum application being examined in cases where there was no prospect of asylum anyway, according to the argumentation of the ÖVP government leadership in the federal government.

“Stop migration movements to Europe”
In the conversation, the interior minister “clearly stated that further EU guidance is needed,” said Dornauer, who is responsible for refugee agendas in the state. Every effort should be made to ensure that “obvious economic refugees with no prospect of a positive asylum status” no longer travel to Europe, the SPÖ politician substantiated the request of the ÖVP government and the head of the department. Dornauer agreed with Karner that they wanted to stop migration movements to Europe and put a rigorous end to human trafficking.

Greens are shocked
The Green MP, Zeliha Arslan, described Dornauer’s tonality as “terrifying”. “Instead of demanding solutions at EU level to remove the causes of flight, enemy images are created and, in the FPÖ fashion, the focus is on division rather than cohesion,” she said. This is a “dangerous break” with the in Tyrol rather “human approach to this sensitive issue”.

She wondered if this was “the line of the SPÖ Tyrolshould be: “Scapegoating in the media, heating up the atmosphere and undermining the right to an asylum procedure?”. Arslan recalled that the right to asylum was “not an act of mercy, but our humanistic responsibility”, requiring a “rule of law procedure”.