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Germany suggests EU ease rules to deport asylum seekers

By Tom Körkemeier and Gabriela Baczynska

REUTERS

 

A man watches from a window of an accommodation center for asylum seekers in Recklinghausen, north of Cologne, Germany January 22, 2016. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German officials have proposed that the European Union relax some human rights safeguards so that more asylum seekers can be deported while awaiting the outcome of their cases, according to a working paper seen by Reuters.

 

The paper is among many under discussion in Brussels as the EU, which has taken in more than 1.3 million migrants and refugees since the start of 2015, makes it tougher for them to get in and be allowed to stay.

 

The paper said the proposal would only kick in at times of a "mass influx" of people to the bloc. "This is another element in efforts to energise readmission of people to wherever they came from," said one Brussels-based diplomat.

 

The EU currently has an agreement allowing the return of asylum seekers only with Turkey. If approved, the proposal could enable such transfers to other places as well, including south of the Mediterranean, diplomats said. The EU is already talking to Libya, Tunisia and Egypt about curbing immigration to Europe.

 

While the EU says it has the right to send away all economic migrants if it chooses, its existing laws on human rights say asylum seekers awaiting a ruling on their cases can only be deported to countries that meet certain conditions.

 

The working paper lists them as including: safety from threat and persecution; humane reception conditions; and at least partial access to medical care, education and the labour market.

 

Some parts of this "clearly exceed" the basic safeguards stipulated by the Geneva convention on refugees and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, it said.

 

It did not specify which of them might be dropped, but made clear that mass expulsions would still be prohibited and receiving countries would still have to guarantee decent living conditions for deported asylum seekers.

 

They would also have to go on obeying the so-called non-refoulement principle, which means ensuring that people deported by the EU are not pushed further towards places where their lives might be at risk.

 

SAFE ZONES

 

Specifically, the proposal also includes an option to recognise certain regions - rather than whole states as is the case now - as fit for people, including asylum seekers, to be sent back to.

 

EU officials acknowledge they are considering this "safe zones" concept, which could mean sending people back to certain areas of countries otherwise deemed too dangerous.

 

"These plans are overturning the international law on refugees... This is an utter betrayal, inhumane," Ska Keller, a Green member of the European Parliament, said of the document.

 

The European Union's executive had no comment on the proposal paper.

 

The document said: "This is not about building a 'Fortress Europe'. It is about combating illegal immigration, which has already cost the lives of thousands, and about replacing it by a regulated system of legal admissions, combined with humane living conditions, assured by the EU in third countries."

 

Last year's EU migration deal with Turkey - which includes provisions on sending back asylum seekers who came to Europe via that country - has sharply cut the numbers arriving, and the paper said it should serve as a blueprint for the future.

 

The Turkey agreement has, however, been criticised by rights groups as cutting corners on human rights and for bumpy implementation they say has put people's lives at risk.

 

The paper said extending the options for deportation of asylum seekers would discourage people-smuggling. The EU would also provide funds to improve conditions for refugees and migrants sent back to third countries.

 

(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-02-22

[sweatalot]

What about not letting them in? 

You would have no problems with deportation

[thaibeachlovers]

[Hayduke]

No…no…no…no. Deportation? You can’t do that. It’s not in compliance with the new order.

 

Yes…economic migrants have largely made a complete mess out of their own countries. Or…they’ve stood by and done nothing while others made a complete mess out of their countries. Either way, they’re too unmotivated, too disorganized, too selfish, too timid, too dumb, or maybe just too lazy to do anything about it. Why should they? The powers that be have declared from on high that they are absolutely entitled to housing, education, medical care,  living allowances, their selections from a menu of ‘human rights’ and a whole assortment of other bright, shiny things essential to a comfy existence.

 

Naturally all of these things are free and no real effort, beyond a short period of difficult travel, is required. So…they’ve come to live in your country...at your expense. You should feel proud of your progressive ‘correctness’. Sharing is caring you know.

Edited February 22, 2017 by Hayduke

[daveAustin]

Bit late for this, eh Deutschland? Horse, stable door, bolted!

[thaibeachlovers]

Makes me laugh. If I chose to enter any of the countries they come from without any documentation and claim "asylum" I doubt they would give me anything other than a boot up the backside as I was thrown out of their country.

[simple1]

46 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

No…no…no…no. Deportation? You can’t do that. It’s not in compliance with the new order.

 

Yes…economic migrants have largely made a complete mess out of their own countries. Or…they’ve stood by and done nothing while others made a complete mess out of their countries. Either way, they’re too unmotivated, too disorganized, too selfish, too timid, too dumb, or maybe just too lazy to do anything about it. Why should they? The powers that be have declared from on high that they are absolutely entitled to housing, education, medical care,  living allowances, their selections from a menu of ‘human rights’ and a whole assortment of other bright, shiny things essential to a comfy existence.

 

Naturally all of these things are free and no real effort, beyond a short period of difficult travel, is required. So…they’ve come to live in your country...at your expense. You should feel proud of your progressive ‘correctness’. Sharing is caring you know.

Given you seem to consider yourself very knowledgeable on the subject of economic refugees in Germany, please advise the benefits  / payments for those waiting for assessment and after they are rejected for refugee status.

[steve187]

germany has a vast experience of people moving

[Sydebolle]

Until Brussels has decided on what they want to tell the Germans to do I, for one, suggest to send those refused asylum seekers to Brussels. Plenty of office space in this EU-maze of offices and housings which, we know, is hardly used and serves as smokescreen for attendance cheaters.

I could imagine that the query gets answered a little faster than the rest of the crap they are producing (like the 26'000 worded instruction on cabbages, in 28 languages and in printed version). 

[Grouse]

Seems like a rational, measured response to me.

 

Need to get northern Iraq and Syria sorted out as quickly as possible and start returning refugees and economic migrants who have not found work.

 

Scott, you know a great deal about refugees; do you see this as being workable?

[elgordo38]

Pssst Rethink this one Angela there is an election in the offing this year. 

[greenchair]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Makes me laugh. If I chose to enter any of the countries they come from without any documentation and claim "asylum" I doubt they would give me anything other than a boot up the backside as I was thrown out of their country.

Yes and whilst asking for asylum, don't forget to ask for a weekly financial reward, free healthcare, free education, and remember to stomp your foot and demand they also allow your elderly parents, cousins, uncle, aunts, nieces, nephews that by their rights must also recieve a big bag of goodies. 

I imagine along with the boot up your backside you will be welcomed to a public beheading to make you feel at home. 

[dick dasterdly]

4 hours ago, sweatalot said:

What about not letting them in? 

You would have no problems with deportation

Or place those without proof that they are genuine asylum seekers, in rich areas - preferably where the politicians are based/live.

 

I suspect this would result in decisions being made far more quickly.

 

Once approval is granted, they should be provided accommodation in the same (wealthy) town.

[Baerboxer]

Nothing to do with what's right or wrong.

 

All to do with trying to increase Merkel's standing in the pre-election opinion polls.

 

She was advocating Europe taking more refugees recently - clearly now thinks she runs Europe as well as the EU. Didn't go down to well so now they come up with this.

[clockman]

Corruption across the .E.U. is about 120 billion euros annually. This loss could have paid to send them all back.

[bangon04]

18 hours ago, steve187 said:

germany has a vast experience of people moving

you mean put them on a train to Poland?

[simple1]

1 hour ago, bangon04 said:

you mean put them on a train to Poland?

Are you and steve187 insinuating you support mass murder?

Edited February 22, 2017 by simple1

[Scott]

I strongly suggest members stay on topic.   Inflammatory trolling will result in suspensions.   

[Scott]

Troll post removed.  

[funandsuninbangkok]

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