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Moria’s camp had been packed for years and there was always fire there: in protest of receiving nothing on dry land. The photo was taken on April 26, 2016, one month after the signing of the EU-Turkey agreement.
Image: Picture-Alliance
What’s remarkable about the debate here about Moria is his self-centeredness. From the Greek point of view, the German reflex does not create remedies, but new problems.
SSince the fire at the Moria reception center on Lesbos, there has been a debate in Germany about how many people should be admitted from the Moria slum camp that has caught fire. It is not enough to bring 400 unaccompanied minors to Europe from there, says the president of the German Association of Cities, a SPD politician. Another Social Democratic member of the Bundestag asks why Germany doesn’t just accept half of the needy on Lesbos. The head of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, calls under the slogan “We have room” to bring to the country all who once was Moria.
But to whom are these appeals addressed? What is remarkable about the German debate is its self-centeredness. The arguments of the Greek side are not even taken into account. One thing must be clear: without the approval of Athens, not a single person in need will leave Lesbos for Germany. It is not the German municipalities, parliamentarians, pressure groups or the Federal Ministry of the Interior who have to determine how things will develop there. This is primarily a decision of the Greek government.
