Greece has rejected the reactivation of the so-called Dublin Regulation that allows other EU member states to send refugees back to the country, a government spokesman said.
Giorgos Kyritsis said on Friday that his country, which hosts a bulk of the refugees in the continent, can not afford to take in more asylum seekers from other European countries.
"A country such as Greece which receives a large number of refugees from Turkey, and also hosts a large number of refugees - practically without any outside help - cannot be asked to receive refugees from other European countries," Giorgos Kyritsis told The Associated Press. "That would be outrageous."
The Dublin Regulation that governs Europe's Schengen passport-free area stipulates that people wishing to apply for asylum must do so in the first member country they arrive in. In most cases that was Greece, whose eastern islands were overwhelmed last year by migrants packed into smugglers boats from Turkey.
But even before last year's migration crisis, many of its EU partners had stopped enforcing the rule because Greece's asylum and migrant reception systems were below standard.
"Unless there is an effective means of redistribution across the EU, a revised Dublin system will force refugees upon receiving states closest to the external border, above all Greece, Italy and to a lesser extent Spain," Brad Blitz, migration expert and professor of international politics at Middlesex University in Britain, told the the Associated Press news agency...
[aljazeera.com]
9/9/16
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Giorgos Kyritsis said on Friday that his country, which hosts a bulk of the refugees in the continent, can not afford to take in more asylum seekers from other European countries.
"A country such as Greece which receives a large number of refugees from Turkey, and also hosts a large number of refugees - practically without any outside help - cannot be asked to receive refugees from other European countries," Giorgos Kyritsis told The Associated Press. "That would be outrageous."
The Dublin Regulation that governs Europe's Schengen passport-free area stipulates that people wishing to apply for asylum must do so in the first member country they arrive in. In most cases that was Greece, whose eastern islands were overwhelmed last year by migrants packed into smugglers boats from Turkey.
But even before last year's migration crisis, many of its EU partners had stopped enforcing the rule because Greece's asylum and migrant reception systems were below standard.
"Unless there is an effective means of redistribution across the EU, a revised Dublin system will force refugees upon receiving states closest to the external border, above all Greece, Italy and to a lesser extent Spain," Brad Blitz, migration expert and professor of international politics at Middlesex University in Britain, told the the Associated Press news agency...
[aljazeera.com]
9/9/16
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