Berlin – The migration researcher Gerald Knaus doesn’t anticipate a big lower within the variety of asylum seekers from the extension of border controls to all German land borders. “Anybody who expects that border controls will result in a discount in irregular migration is elevating an expectation that’s unattainable,” mentioned the co-initiator of the refugee settlement with Turkey on Deutschlandfunk. The reason being the extension of the already present spot checks to the borders with Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark this Monday.
Many EU nations have had border controls for a really very long time, comparable to France and Austria. However: “It has not decreased the variety of asylum purposes in any respect,” Knaus defined. Border controls are additionally not a method to stop Islamist terrorism, as most of the perpetrators had radicalized solely after arriving in Germany.
In keeping with him, this is able to solely be doable with radical measures comparable to a complete finish to controlled-free journey and the motion of products between the member states of the related Schengen Settlement. “If the thought is definitely that we cease all irregular migration on the German borders: That is solely doable completely with an finish to Schengen. You’d then additionally want fences on the inexperienced border.”
Knaus: EU-wide method crucial
Knaus additionally expects little from an acceleration of the return of migrants who’ve already arrived and been registered in one other EU nation, because the federal authorities plans. “If a rustic like Italy says, we gained’t take anybody, and the European Fee doesn’t provoke infringement proceedings, sure, then different nations see that too,” he mentioned. “I’m afraid the entire method, to stop irregular migration throughout the EU, the onward motion, will fail. It has at all times failed to date.” In keeping with him, an EU-wide method is important: “We have to cut back irregular migration into the EU, we want a dialogue about that.” (15.09)
