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Contrary to the demands of the representatives of the Tyrolean ÖVP to accept refugees from the Lesbos camp in Austria, the government remains faithful to its line. He wants to help on the spot: to this end, he plans to create a nursery for about 500 children on the Greek island with SOS Children’s Villages. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) announced this in a joint broadcast on Saturday. More recently, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn appealed to the turquoise green government to accept people from the fields. The ÖVP 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.” Admitting refugees is not a problem, Schallenberg said 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 positively accepted the idea and promised to examine it quickly.
Children are bitten by rats
“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 ”. After the fire in the Moria refugee camp, the Ministry of the Interior disbursed not only aid but also 2 million euros for 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 Schönborn recently asked the government to accept people from the camps. While the Greens are also in favor, the ÖVP is still categorically opposed to the demand and relies exclusively on “local aid”.
Zadic: “Humanitarian disaster”
Justice Minister Alma Zadic called the situation in Lesbos on Saturday in the lunch diary Ö1 as a “humanitarian catastrophe” and showed his willingness to bring refugees from the Greek camps in Austria. “I can assure you that we, on behalf of the Greens in the federal government, will work every day to ensure that we achieve movement and change here,” he said in response to the ÖVP’s no and spoke of “drilling hardboard” in this regard. .
The criticism came on the occasion of the announcement by Schallenberg and Nehammer of NEOS. Interior spokeswoman Stephanie Krisper said in a broadcast that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) was apparently restarting his public relations machine “to distract himself from the fundamentally cynical coldness of the government’s current position.”
“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 proposed public relations project would theoretically only start in months with now inhuman living conditions, but implementation with NGO restrictions is not realistic at all.”
NEOS admonished “the self-defined Christian social party ÖVP to save children and families from conditions that meanwhile threaten life” and said: “To make this possible, many places, parishes, individuals and dignitaries of the church up to the Cardinal Schönborn are now clearly requesting Reference to a minimum of lived Christianity or just a little humanity. ” (apa)
