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Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (VP) announced this in a joint broadcast on Saturday. More recently, Cardinal Christoph Schnborn appealed to the turquoise green government to accept people from the fields. The vice president continues to reject this.
“No child should have to grow up like children in Lesbos refugee camps,” Schallenberg said. “We want to quickly improve the living conditions of children and contribute to making their everyday life more enjoyable for children.” Refugee inclusion is not a problem, Schallenberg confirmed Saturday night on ORF-ZiB 1, speaking of “a clear line.”
The nursery would offer psychosocial support and education for the children, as well as counseling for the parents. Austria would finance the project for three years. According to his department, Schallenberg held talks with his Greek counterpart Nikolas Dendias and the deputy. Greek Migration Minister Georgios Koumoutsakos welcomed the idea and promised to examine it quickly.
“Haunting and heartbreaking images”
“The photos that come to us from Greece are always disturbing and shocking, I also say that as a family man,” Nehammer added. For this reason, from our point of view, it is necessary to help on site to improve the situation ”. Following the fire in the Moria refugee camp, the Ministry of the Interior disbursed aid to donors and 2 million euros to the IOM (International Organization for Migration). This would establish medical teams on Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Kos and Leros, purchase rescue vehicles, and establish and equip medical laboratories and centers.
The situation in the Greek refugee camps is repeatedly described as catastrophic; more recently it became known that children in tents are bitten by rats. In addition to numerous representatives of the opposition, aid organizations and scientists, Cardinal Christoph Schnborn recently asked the government to accept people from the camps. While the Greens are also in favor, the TP still categorically opposes the lawsuit and relies exclusively on “on-the-spot help”.
Zadic: Drilling Hard Boards
Justice Minister Alma Zadic called the situation in Lesbos on Saturday in the midday newspaper a “humanitarian catastrophe” and showed his willingness to bring refugees from the Greek camps to Austria. “I can assure you that we on the part of the Greens in the federal government will work every day to achieve a movement and a change here,” he said in response to the vice president’s no and spoke of “drilling hard boards” in this regard.
The criticism came on the occasion of the announcement of Schallenberg and Nehammer by NEOS. Interior spokeswoman Stephanie Krisper said in a broadcast that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) was apparently turning on his public relations machine “to distract from the fundamentally cynical coldness of the government’s current position.”
“Show and no real help”
“It shows once again that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has a dire show and not real help in mind,” argued Krisper. And further: “Why show? The theoretically planned public relations project would only start in months with now inhuman living conditions, but implementing the restrictions imposed by the NGOs is not realistic at all.”
NEOS admonished “the self-defined vice president of the Christian social party to save children and families from life-threatening conditions” and said: “Many places, parishes, people and ecclesiastical dignitaries including Cardinal Schnborn are calling for this to be possible. Reference to a minimum of lived Christianity or just a little humanity “.
