Europe Needs a Humane Asylum Policy

After the catastrophe of Lampedusa experts demand a reform of the European asylum policy. Nothing has changed but for speeches and pleas. The actual figures of the UN prove that globally every four seconds someone flees from his or her home country. Poverty, natural disasters, exploding food prices, but most of all wars are the reasons for that. In places where war rages, the situation of the people is disastrous.

But also where racism drives people to flight, the conditions are devastating. The global economy crisis in many contries within and outside of Europe destroys any perspective for many people to shape their own life. Of them many will try to find their living elsewhere.  It is cynical when Federal Minister of the Interior Friedrich stirs up hatred agains poverty refugees and haggles over refugee quota.

Those who imply that refugees come to Germany with the intent to fraud want to marginalise and seal themselves off. This is most obscure cracker-barrel level and racist. We ask the EU to eventually implement basic standards for asylum seekers incorporating human rights on a high level. We need a change of the EU’s escape regime. The external borders have become lethal for thousands of people. That is why we demand: open borders for people in need, humane accommodation of refugees and fastly offering perspectives for those who look here for protection and admission. The racialistically charged discussions about supposedly economic refugees have eventually to stop. The misery of the people has political reasons, in which the Federal Republic in many cases has its share in. Thus, we are also responsible for helping those in need and admit refugees.