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The devastating fire in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is causing serious dissonance in the Austrian government coalition.
Germany, France and other EU countries want to take in minor immigrants after the great fire in the Greek refugee camp of Moria. In Austria, the ÖVP came out clearly against it and was met with resistance from the coalition partner: the head of the Green Club, Sigrid Maurer, whose prosecution continues today due to defamation, attacked the ÖVP on Thursday in the “ZiB2” head on. Your group is “quite ready to fight” here.
Also testified, for example, by Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP), who was hardly different from the FPÖ. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP), who had changed the day before on the same program about a “division cry” regarding refugees, was also targeted by Maurer. She was “shocked” by the wording and did not consider it worthy of a foreign minister. The fact that Schallenberg and Greece argue that distributing the Moria refugees to other countries will only bring in new asylum seekers, he called it “cynical” and “a convenient excuse not to have to help.”
The head of the Green Club suspects that the ÖVP’s Vienna election campaign is the background. For this reason, his party “unfortunately bites the granite”. But the pressure on the ÖVP will increase. There is also a lot going on at the European level, he referred to the decision by the Netherlands to accept refugees from Lesbos, contrary to the initial announcements. Maurer did not say how many people should be admitted. For the moment, the question is not how many, but whether Austria is even willing to help people in need.
Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) criticized the statements of Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) in the “Standard”: “I expect more European spirit and more humanity and less cynicism”, says the head of the Greens in the “Standard”. Schallenberg, like all leading ÖVP politicians, had refused to accept refugees from the burned camp and also spoke of a “shout of distribution.” Kogler, on the other hand, wants to convince the coalition partner that in view of the dramatic and inhuman conditions in Moria, mothers and children in particular need quick help: “When German Chancellor (Angela) Merkel and the President of France (Emmanuel) Macron and even the Prime Minister of Bavaria (Markus) Söder Welcomes the children, Austria can too. “
Van der Bellen: “Do the right thing now”
Meanwhile, Federal President Alexander van der Bellen has indirectly called for the admission of refugees. Refugees in Moria and especially children without parents “now need our help.” Austria has a long tradition of helping people in need and size and humanity are now doing the right thing, Van der Bellen wrote on Twitter.
“Our Europe should be a continent of peace and human rights. It is shocking that in this, our common Europe, thousands of people, stranded fleeing war, persecution and torture, have had to live in inhumane conditions for years. And now they have lost this “refuge”. Austria has a long and great tradition of helping people in need. Austrians were always ready to help those who could no longer help themselves. Refugees in Moira and especially children Without parents now we need our help. I am sure that Europe and Austria have the size and humanity to do the right thing now. It is precisely those moments that show us what Europe we live in, “said the Federal President.
(THAN)
