The EU return law presented by EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner on Tuesday is intended to make deportations faster and more efficiently in the future, especially illegally introduced immigrants. But experts dampen expectations because finding “willing third countries” is anything but a simple task.
“Paper is patient, especially in Brussels,” formulates migration researcher Judith Kohlenberger, but the implementation of the plans presented is all the more difficult. Because it is one thing if the European Union now wanted to make more repatrations, but another is the fact that the countries of the origin of people cannot be made. After all, the Union Law does not apply.
“In practice, this rarely succeeds”
The consequence of this is now the search for states with which Member States can conclude agreements for the establishment of return centers. According to De Kohlenberger, however, this is difficult: “That is why this measure has probably also been left to the Member States: the regulation creates the basis that they can conclude agreements with third countries themselves.” The expert predicts what rarely will succeed in practice.
“Even if people are flown to Rwanda, for example, as Groot -Britain meant, this does not mean that they could not come to Europe through the Mediterranean via Libya and the Zeroute,” the researcher of the Vienna University of Economic Affairs. After all, people cannot be held against their will permanently.
Time of the proposal “strategic wise”
Kohlenberger does not surprise the timing of the return scheme. It is a subject that was clear with a view to the elections of various national elections and can now be used “strategically smart” because “there is few deviating opinions”. In the past, every EU committee has retained the improvement of migration policy through greater efficiency and speed of deportations. The Austrian EU migration commissioner would only build on it.
Criticism of Merz model
Kohlenberger sees a procedure such as those who now intend the German CDU/CSU. “The fact that Germany wants to reject migrants and asylum seekers on the German borders without the permission of neighboring countries is only moved to neighboring countries and ultimately to the European periphery,” says the migration researcher. In addition to compliance with applicable legislation, the researcher sees a fair, rule of law and “reasonably fast” processing of asylum procedures as solutions. On the other hand, the asylum seeker is needed. There is rather a “competition” where the EU countries try to make as unattractive as possible.
Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz from the Austria asylum coordination was also extremely skeptical in the ORF program “ZIB 2” on Tuesday evening. “If we don’t even do it as part of the European Union, how should that work with third countries?” In conversation with moderator Armin Wolf, he pointed out the problem that the division of migrants does not work in the EU and that every Lidland is “its own soup”.
Source: Krone
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