EU should take quota
CDU politician Frei: asylum law is “deeply inhuman”
07/18/2023 09:37 am
Union managing director Frei calls for the abolition of the individual right to asylum. Instead of this “deeply inhumane” practice, an “institute guarantee” should be introduced. With this, Europe could turn to the “weakest”.
The Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei, considers the current practice of the individual right to asylum to be inhuman and wants to replace it with a new EU regulation. Instead, an “institute guarantee” should be introduced, writes Frei in a guest article for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
Theoretically, 35 million Afghans have the right to be accepted into Germany, writes Frei. “To ensure that as few people as possible make use of their rights, we are making it conditional on an application being made on European soil.” But this selection is “deeply inhumane”. “Whoever is too old, too weak, too poor or too sick has no chance.”
Instead, according to Frei, the EU could take in a contingent of 300,000 to 400,000 people in need of protection directly from abroad and distribute them among the 27 member states. The individual right to asylum must become a so-called institutional guarantee. “With such a right of asylum, Europe could not only address the weakest, but also help very precisely where states are being destabilized by large influxes of refugees,” explains Frei. In addition, security risks could be minimized and opportunities for integration maximized. The receipt of social benefits would then be “comprehensively excluded”.
Check the prospect of asylum at the border
The EU is currently planning a far-reaching asylum reform, but this is still being fought over. Numerous tightening measures are planned to limit illegal migration – especially from countries that are considered relatively safe. Those who have little prospect of asylum should already be checked at the EU’s external borders and, if necessary, sent back.
According to statistics from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), of the approximately 228,000 asylum decisions in Germany last year, only 0.8 percent of the cases were granted asylum under Article 16a of the Basic Law. In most cases, the applicants were granted refugee status under the Geneva Refugee Convention or subsidiary protection.