Edition from Sunday, October 22, 2023
Innsbruck (OTS) – Border controls do not solve the problem of migration pressure in the least. Current figures – and attacks – prove this.
Italy closed the borders with Slovenia on Saturday, and the Slovenians closed those with Croatia and Hungary. Germany and Austria have been playing this game for years, actually illegally, but not even the highest guardian of the EU treaties, the Commission in Brussels, cares. Nor does it react when some illegal cross-border commuters, who have made it from Italy to France despite controls over an Alpine pass, suddenly find themselves on Italian soil – illegally internally pushed back, so to speak.
Nothing can be done together when it comes to dealing with migration pressure in the EU. With the controls, every government tries to convince its own voters that it is actively taking action against too many migrants. The numbers show how ineffective and downright ridiculous controls at internal borders are. In September alone, Germany counted 21,366 refugees who entered the country illegally, as many as in February 2016.
Such alibi measures neither reduce migration pressure nor protect against terror. How else can it be that the assassin who shot two Swedish football fans in Brussels was able to apply for asylum in four Schengen countries? How can it be that he was refused asylum in all countries and yet he continued to stay in the EU? Why do governments still demand more ways to monitor people if they are not even able to exchange data with each other about asylum seekers who have already been rejected and to deport them? Internal controls will not prevent anyone hoping for a better life in Europe from making the life-threatening journey. The consistent repatriation of everyone without protection status is more likely.
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