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Sunday night at the ZiB 2 Another opportunity presented itself: on the occasion of the five-year refugee crisis, the Burgenland state police director at the time was invited and once again advocated a restrictive immigration policy: humanity is “of course important, but the rule of law factor is equally important, “Doskozil said on the question of whether to have children and should accept unaccompanied minors from Greek refugee camps.
This is exactly what Rendi-Wagner said in the summer talk: “Yes, we have to be able to take in children, unaccompanied minors,” that is, “a number that avoids human tragedy there.”
Overall, Doskozil revealed a relatively large number of overlaps with the ÖVP on this topic. As a differentiating point, he only mentioned the “Australian model”, which Sebastian Kurz had promoted as Minister of Foreign Affairs: detaining refugees outside their own territory without the possibility of a procedure “is not justifiable under the rule of law” (what which, of course, Kurz never asked). However, Doskozil also wants procedural centers outside the EU. The only thing they have in common with Rendi-Wagner on this issue: they both call for a uniform EU asylum policy.
Criticism as an ally
At the request of KURIER, the Rendi-Wagner spokeswoman limited herself to stating that the party leader had made her position clear in the summer talks and that there were no comments on Doskozil’s remarks.
Meanwhile, another internal party critic, Tyrolean Socialist Party leader Georg Dornauer, has sided with Rendi-Wagner. In a statement to KURIER, he formulated: “No EU country, much less individual federal states, should make this decision on their own. As mayor of a community of 1500 people (Sellrain; Anm.), where we opened a new kindergarten a few weeks ago, I would bring ten children to the site. After World War II, children affected by the war came to Switzerland from all over Europe. Swiss Children’s Aid was held as a humanitarian project. “
Another less surprising ally: Vienna Councilor for Health, Peter Hacker. “It is not worthy of Europe, it is not worthy of Austria, what happens to children in refugee camps in Greece,” Hacker told KURIER.
In a request approved by the SPÖ, the Greens and Neos in the Vienna Landtag, the federal government is asked to “participate in the EU program and demonstrate sufficient capacities to host 100 vulnerable children in Vienna.”
This will not challenge the Burgenland SP boss. “More often than you’d like,” she called him when there was a difference of opinion, Rendi-Wagner explained. There should be many more occasions.
