Migration policy: Europe is facing a dangerous tear test!

Migration policy: Europe is facing a dangerous tear test!

In the current migration policy, the discussion about return centers and agreements with third countries is in full swing. Judith Kohlenberger, an expert in migration, emphasizes that the EU's plans to strengthen the returns are met with considerable practical challenges. According to Kohlenberger, it will be difficult to find states that are willing to set up return centers as they hope for in Brussels. The key to these agreements lies in the personal responsibility of the Member States, and it is little prospect of successful negotiations, as it emphasizes. One central point is that once rejected asylum seekers have to be ready to return, but reality could look very different elsewhere in Europe. So Kohlenberger also sees the risk of returning paths that lead over Libya and the Mediterranean, which questions the feasibility of the planned repatriations, as she does in her interview with the Small newspaper

returns in an international context

The trend towards outsourcing asylum procedures at third countries, such as recently between Italy and Albania, is gaining a trip. Kohlenberger sees in these bilateral agreements, some of which are carried out under adhesive -like conditions, but major problems. In their view, the EU asylum pact, which is also intended to provide migrants in reception camps, is not sustainable and creates a variety of gray areas that were previously illegal, but are now being traced. In this regard, the EU feels on a narrow border, while fundamental aspects of the migration problem are ignored, which means that the responsibility is ultimately deposited to third countries, as also the Kurier reported.

Kohlenberger also warns that a second major escape movement from Ukraine could be imminent if the geopolitical conditions do not improve. In addition, she finds that Europe comes under pressure through various crises - such as those in Sudan - and it is important to pay more attention to these regions. She concludes that despite the newly contained asylum compromise in the EU, national efforts on migration policy will continue to be necessary as long as fundamental questions about the causes of flight and the integration of asylum seekers are not addressed.