DThe European Council will never accept attempts by third countries to use immigrants for political purposes. “This was announced after the recent meeting of the heads of state and government in Brussels. They requested the European Commission “to propose any necessary changes to the EU legal framework, as well as specific measures to provide sufficient financial support to ensure compliance with EU law and the EU’s international Obligations, including fundamental rights, to respond promptly and appropriately”.
Five hours of debate have been going on before—and this is just the beginning. Because this job is explosive. This is not just a question of whether the fence or fence on the border with Belarus should be paid from the community budget.This is also the most important question, namely I Refusal of immigration is the so-called counterattack. If there is a “push” before, it is allowed.
Co-financing of border barriers may even be completed now; it does not have a sufficient political majority. Twelve member states have launched election campaigns for this, nine of which are from the east, as well as Greece, Austria and Denmark.But other countries support the position of the European Commission Ursula von Delane After that, the council summarized as follows: “The committee and the European Parliament have long commented that barbed wire and fences will have no funds.” This position can be traced back to the dispute with Hungary during the immigration crisis in 2015. Logistic support is still possible: surveillance cameras, drones and Frontex officials.
Brussels closes eyes
However, Von der Lein was open to other demands made by the twelve states in a letter in early October, namely to “adapt the legal framework to new realities” to resist “hybrid attacks”. She announced that the committee will investigate this as part of the upcoming revision of the Schengen border law. It will be promoted in November.
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The vice president in charge of the archives, Margaritis Schinas, a Christian Democrat from Greece, has repeatedly stood before the Athens government for protection. When Turkey launched its first organized attack on the EU’s external borders and smuggled thousands of migrants to Evros at the end of February 2020, Cinas organized the committee’s hard line: no matter what the cost, The attack should be repelled. Athens temporarily suspended the EU asylum law, and Brussels turned a blind eye to it.
At the time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan only took a week to give in and get the immigrants back.Ruler of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Don’t give up easily. Since the summer, he has smuggled thousands of people into the European Union to retaliate against their sanctions and support the opposition. Lithuania and Poland responded to this: additional troops at the border, temporary barriers and legal changes. These in turn allow immigrants to be turned away from the green border, even if they apply for asylum there. Such applications can only be made at regular border crossings-immigrants cannot reach these border crossings because Belarusian officials only allow those who can show a valid visa to EU countries to pass through. Vilnius and Warsaw now require the EU to legally recognize this practice.
Blaming “hybrid wars”
In fact, the EU’s asylum law stipulates that asylum applications can be made anywhere at the border and must be checked separately, including legal protection. However, it is possible to provide an exception through Article 347 of the EU Treaty: “In the event of a war” or “in the event of a serious international tension that represents the threat of war”. The Greeks have already mentioned this. This is the deeper reason why the affected government has accused Minsk of “hybrid war” from the beginning.Committee Chairman von der Lein and most recently Council of Europe This sentence is their own.
There are some doubts whether it has legal effect. The invasion of Crimea in 2014 was undoubtedly a mixed war. The Russians conquered the peninsula without a single shot and a mixture of conventional military means, such as the naval blockade of Sevastopol and unconventional means: special forces without a sovereign badge, accompanied by propaganda and false information. Lukashenko was also interested in destabilizing, but he did not associate any territorial claims with it. In addition, the human rights obligations arising from the Geneva Refugee Convention are still valid. In the past three decades, the European Court of Human Rights has extensively interpreted the right to asylum and the principle of non-refoulement.
However, the judges in the Spanish enclave Melilla made a surprising ruling in February last year: They declared that it was legal to completely expel migrants who had entered the area through a high border fence with “mass of violence”. The asylum application should be made at a regular border crossing, so there is a lot of debate-although this is almost impossible for the affected people, as it is for Belarusian immigrants.In Frontex and the eastern states, there are various expectations of this judgment, but there are also fears, especially in European Parliament, Must agree to amend the boundary law.
The debate on the extent to which the EU can protect its external borders has begun. The new federal government must also be positioned quickly.
