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For the first time, more asylum transfers from the EU to Germany than the other way around
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Migrants in Bavaria speak out against deportations: last year there were significantly fewer repatriations from Germany to other EU countries than the previous year
Quelle: image alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com
In Corona 2020, the number of deportations from Germany to other EU countries fell significantly. The Dublin Agreement works more often in the other direction, and there is another way for migrants to find their way to the Federal Republic.
me“Schengen” actually guarantees open borders in the European Union, but “Dublin” ensures that freedom of movement in the EU does not apply to asylum seekers. The current EU asylum system with the central Dublin regulation is the answer to the disarmament of national borders.
When the governments of the northern states of the EU at that time decided to dismantle border controls, they definitely did not want all migrants arriving in southern countries to be able to simply travel north to seek asylum there. Therefore, the Dublin Regulation stipulates that the country of first entry is usually responsible. However, there are many exceptions: for the sick, minors or migrants who already have relatives in another country.
Now, as is well known, transfers to responsible states are seldom successful or successful. From Germany they never exceeded a few thousand a year. In 2020, the number of transfers decreased again due to the Corona crisis:
According to information from the Federal Office for Migration (BAMF) available to WELT, only 2,953 asylum seekers were transferred to the state responsible for their asylum procedure. In 2019 there were still 8,423 and, for the first time since the Dublin system came into force, even more asylum seekers were transferred from other countries to Germany than the other way around: 4,369 people were brought into the country from other EU countries in 2020 because the Federal Republic was responsible.
Since the current EU asylum system was established in 2008, fewer than 50,000 asylum seekers have been returned from Germany to the responsible states, although around 2.5 million asylum seekers arrived in the same period, the great most of which entered through an EU state. This balance turns out to be even poorer in the context that roughly a third of those transferred later re-enter open borders, as reported by WELT AM SONNTAG.
Since the majority of asylum seekers arriving here have already applied for asylum in another EU state, they should be returned to the responsible state. However, since they often successfully hide or complain against their transfer, for example because the placement in the competent state is considered too precarious, this is only successful in some cases. During the Corona crisis, these deportations were temporarily suspended entirely.
However, the federal government has been accused for years of bringing very few immigrants out of destination countries, especially from Greece. For years, many asylum seekers have been transferred from the economically weak Mediterranean country, especially through transfers from Dublin.
If an asylum seeker living in Greece has close relatives in Germany, he does not have to stay there, but can go through an asylum procedure here. From 2015 to the end of 2020, more than 9,000 migrants were transferred in this way. In the other direction, it only worked about 30 times in the five years.
In addition to this type of aid for Greece through the Dublin system, Germany sent another 5,400 asylum seekers from Greece as part of the EU relocation program, which has now expired. Much more relevant than these legal recordings, however, is the illegal route: in recent years, tens of thousands of people traveled from Greece to Germany without permission after being brought from the islands to the mainland.
Then there are the special admissions programs from last year. Overall, as a result of a coalition resolution on March 8 and after the arson in the Moria camp on Lesbos in September, the federal government decided to take in some 2,750 migrants. committed from Greece. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 1,519 of them have already arrived in the Federal Republic.
The spring decision had a breakthrough: already around Christmas 2019, many politicians and the media had campaigned in view of the shortage of supply on the Greek islands to bring refugees and other migrants from there to Germany.
Initially, the government stuck to its line at the time of largely accepting unauthorized round trips from Greece to Germany and taking some relatives of refugees living in Germany from Greece, as provided in the rules of Dublin. Beyond that, however, they didn’t want to rely on additional special photos, but rather on site support.
Finally, on March 8, Schwarz-Rot decided to bring around 1,000 migrants: 53 unaccompanied minors and 243 children or adolescents who need treatment with their nuclear families. The inclusion of these groups is largely complete. “In connection with the coalition resolution of March 8, 2020, 1,077 people have entered Germany from Greece so far,” the Federal Interior Ministry said in late December.
After the Moria fire in autumn, numerous politicians from the left-wing parties, but also high-ranking Union members, such as the head of the CSU, Markus Söder, and the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet ( CDU), campaigned for a wider acceptance of Greece.
At the initiative of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), around ten EU countries were convinced to jointly accept 400 unaccompanied minors. Germany wanted to participate with 150.
According to the Interior Ministry, this contingent has already been accepted. A few days later, the federal government made new decisions on its own and without waiting for commitments from other EU states. 1553 to seek recognized refugees from the Greek islands as a family. According to the ministry, only 291 of them are in Germany.
