Greens in the EU Parliament criticize the CSU’s new proposal for a harder course in migration policy as unrealistic and populist.
Many of the demands cannot be practically implemented and are in conflict with EU law and human rights, said Erik Marquardt, the Greens’ group spokesperson in the Parliament, to the Funke Media Group (Monday’s editions). “It creates the impression that CSU politicians are not only selling out Christian values but also their own grandmother to gain a few points in the election” the Green politician added. One should only demand measures in election campaigns that can be implemented in government afterwards.
The CSU confirms its so-called “Security Plan”, which is to be decided upon at a meeting of the state group starting on Monday, including the demand for rejections at the German borders. “The first measure that a Federal Interior Minister must implement after the election is the rejection of foreigners without a right of entry to our country” it says in the paper.
Marquardt referred to the fact that the EU Commission only allows rejections at the borders under strict conditions. A corresponding assessment was given by the then EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson in a response to a parliamentary question by Marquardt at the end of October.
In the Commission’s response, as reported by the Funke newspapers, it says: “If a third-country national applies for international protection at the internal border of a member state, the relevant member state, in accordance with EU law, is required to apply the provisions of the Dublin Regulation to determine which member state is responsible for examining the asylum application.”
And further: The exception in Article 72 of the EU Treaty – which Union politicians refer to – is “to be interpreted narrowly” and should not be understood as an authorization for member states to deviate from the provisions of Union law.