Migration researcher: – EU asylum pact “addresses the causes too late”

That is too late. To get to an EU border, the asylum seekers would have already taken a great personal risk. There are also financial costs and physical effort. An EU asylum system must provide protection and security for both parties and be resilient as further refugee flows would follow. But many politicians would not dare to say that, says Kohlenberger, who works at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

“Fair pressure distribution”
In an interview with moderator Armin Wolf, she spoke about ‘pressure in the system’ that must be distributed fairly and a ‘policy of letting people die at the borders’. These questions. Presumably an agreement should have been reached quickly before the June elections.

However, the researcher does not believe that every EU state has its own asylum system. Austria already has a ‘patchwork carpet’ due to the different regulations in the individual states. Another point Kohlenberger made is that many applicable asylum rules already exist, but they are often not implemented, for example in Hungary. “States want to send refugees to each other.”

Regular form also capable of consensus?
The researcher makes a distinction between people fleeing war and labor migrants, for example. There are currently many people in the asylum system who do not belong here, but migrant workers also come with their families. According to Kohlenberger, they need a regular form of immigration and there is consensus on this. In this way, for example, major demographic crises can be taken seriously.