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Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) remains tough in the fight to accept the refugees from the burned Moria camp. “This inhuman system of 2015, I cannot reconcile myself to my conscience,” Kurz said in a video message posted Saturday morning on Facebook, warning of a recurrence of the 2015 refugee crisis.
Rather, one “will help the site to ensure a decent supply,” Kurz said. “We are in talks with the coalition partner about this.” This is not just about Moria, but also about other parts of the world that are not in the media spotlight, said Kurz, who initially reported on his visits to refugee camps in Iraq or Somaliland and his concern about conditions. there.
Short for “holistic approach” instead of welcoming children
“At the European level we will work for a holistic approach. What we do not need is token politics,” he said, clearly referring to the Franco-German initiative to host children and young people from Moria. What is needed is “real and sustainable support for the affected areas, an economic outlook for the African continent and also effective protection of our external borders,” she said.
Video: The full video message posted on Saturday:
It was the “terrible images at the Budapest train station” in the summer of 2015 that caused “European politics to give in to pressure and open up borders,” Kurz said. Then thousands, then tens of thousands, and finally a million would have left. The smugglers would have made huge sums of money, countless people drowned in the Mediterranean, Kurz repeated his argument, which has remained unchanged for five years and which he apparently does not want to abandon even under increasing internal political pressure.
In the seven-minute clip, Kurz also objected to the impression that Austria was doing nothing for the refugees. “This year alone, Austria took in 3,700 children. That is around 100 children per week who have received a positive asylum decision and have found safety here in Austria.” Kurz did not say that, due to the closing of the borders, these can be practically exclusively photographs taken in the context of family reunification.
