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“For the Ukrainians, Western support cost 13 thousand. Lives. They redeemed that support with their lives. And I think Belarus has already surrendered. But I do not want to predict, I do not know how it will be now,” says Delfi’s interlocutor.
Ažubalis criticizes the outdated and inadequate legal regulation, in his opinion, of the processing of refugees in the European Union.
“An overly legalistic approach reduces the national powers of the Member States. Once upon a time, a head of the Constitutional Court told me:” The time will come when Strasbourg will deal with EU affairs. “We see that in part this is happening Sometimes decisions are made in a way that goes beyond reality and life’s practice.
Here we have the Geneva Convention, the fifty-first year of the last century. Has anything changed in the world during that time? Clearly that has changed. The nature of conflict has changed. Refugees are not only fleeing famine and plague, economic migrants have also emerged. The situation is changing, and the stagnant legal framework for refugees is in the hands of the Member States, ”said the politician.
It points out that the Seimas National Security and Defense and Foreign Affairs Committees have proposed to the Government to initiate amendments to the legal acts in the EU Councils, which would allow to act with common sense in the situations that arose this summer on the Lithuanian border with Belarus.
“I hope that now the call has sounded that will wake up not only Lithuania. But here we will face considerable resistance. Let’s take a look at illegal immigration in the Mediterranean. Has at least one captain been convicted of smuggling? No. Politicians are just scared.
Now is an unprecedented time for Lithuania, along with the Visegrad and Scandinavian countries, to seek certain coalitions and try to make the asylum and migration policy adequate. What’s going on? The old rage is still being discussed: about mandatory divisions and mandatory solidarity, ”says Ažubalis.
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