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In view of the upcoming Turkey Summit crucial for the EU and the possibility of sanctions, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comments: “Turkey does not need any more bad news. The economy is suffering from the rapid devaluation of the pound and the pandemic has made Turkey one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus. If all this were added by possible EU sanctions , the country would be further weakened. However, the possibility of sanctions appears to be approaching. “The sanctions are getting stronger due to human rights violations, they are more and more likely due to Turkish provocations in the eastern Mediterranean.”
As FAZ observes: “The German government has opposed the harshest way, with good reason. This is because similar threats and symbolic sanctions were constantly removed in the past. Erdogan did not deviate from his strong political positions. On the contrary , the measures generated internal sympathy. But it is increasingly difficult for the German government to avoid the sanctions demanded by France and Greece. Despite the guarantees, Turkey has done nothing to avoid tensions in the Mediterranean and to implement reforms that would help to restore confidence in the country’s judicial system. President Erdogan made the glass break: for the EU to remain credible, it will not avoid sanctions. However, the tragic thing is that even these will not change Ankara’s attitude. “
Hungary and Poland and Merkel against them
For his part Southgerman’s newspaper focuses on the other important topic of the Summit, the planned veto of Hungary and Poland on the European budget due to its connection with criteria relating to respect for the rule of law. SZ comments: “(…) Poland and Hungary have reduced the dispute (with the EU) to a fundamental level. Both believe that this mechanism affects their sovereignty; in their own way, they are right. The government models of the ultra-conservative PiS in Poland and of the ethnopopulist Fidesz in Hungary are based on the mutilation of the EU, limited to an economic space and the role of financier. Consequently, a common understanding of democracy and the rule of law becomes unnecessary. “On these issues, each country must decide “sovereignly” on its own “.
Elsewhere, the comment observes: “(…) In this battle, Victor Orban and Jaroslav Kaczynski would have an advantage if the others lost their patience. Activation of the Recovery Fund is possible without Poland and Hungary. Poland will suffer most of all. Both will suffer. countries will suffer an emergency budget without being able to prevent the mechanism of the rule of law (…) Angela Merkel cannot end her European political career with such a commitment: “Merkel must show Orban and Kaczynski that the EU has more power.”
What exactly is happening to the refugee children that Germany receives?
Wide journalistic coverage Newspaper investigates what happens to refugee children who have come to Germany from refugee centers on the Aegean islands following a reception agreement. “Anyone arriving from the Greek refugee centers in Berlin through a federal reception program is not sure.” Germany is sending threats of deportation, “reports TAZ. Specifically, the report refers to the case of an Afghan boy from 9-year-old who received an “exit order with threat of deportation” from the Berlin Local Immigration Service (LEA), apparently unaware that the child had arrived in Germany through a German government reception program. The incident, writes TAZ, it reveals “a terrifying lack of coordination between the German authorities.” According to the competent authority in Berlin, the refugee child did not have a visa.
According to TAZ, according to data from the Refugee Council that made the case public, “it often happens that unaccompanied minors receive this type of letter from the LEA with an exit order and a threat of deportation even if the country, as in the In the case of the young child, it is not intended for deportation. ” The competent service, for its part, makes legal claims, saying that these requirements have to do with the fact that asylum has not yet been applied for, “reports TAZ and adds:” Refugee aid organizations say that the Immigration Service has scope for legal action. “These letters could cause unnecessary fear in recipients by sending the message that they are not welcome.”
According to a representative of the Refugee Council, refugee children who arrive through these programs from Greece to Germany receive the relevant documents that allow them to travel. He also tells TAZ that there are ambiguities in the letters in question and that there are no clarifications to clarify the situation. Also problematic is the term “tolerance”, which refers to a legal provision incorporated in the letters in question and which is supposed to solve the problem. But the “tolerance regime” for a refugee is not in itself a “fundamental obstacle to deportation,” notes TAZ, and concludes: “The question of why refugees who have been selected to come to Germany have only one status tolerance remains unanswered. “
Source: DW – Dimitra Kyranoudi
