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Germany to restart 'Dublin transfers'

Published : 18-06-2020

Germany to restart

Germany said  it is ready to begin sending asylum seekers who have already applied for asylum in another EU country back to those countries to complete the process. 

The so-called 'Dublin transfers' were paused towards the end of March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany's Interior Ministry told the German press agency dpa that it would be starting to transfer asylum seekers from Germany who had already started their asylum process in another EU state.

Germany, like many other EU states, lifted custom controls and some flight restrictions on June 15.

That is, providing, there is no new rise in infections in any country, the statement added. The so-called "Dublin transfers" will begin with Germany's neighboring countries, with which it shares a border.

Later, said the dpa report, Germany will start chartering flights too. Any transfers will of course take place after controls to prevent any further spread of coronavirus, said the interior ministry paper, according to dpa.

Anyone showing symptoms of coronavirus or COVID-19 will of course stay in Germany until they are no longer infectious.

The director of the pro-asylum group Pro-Asyl, Günter Burkhardt, said that the German government wasn’t being completely transparent about information they were releasing about the restart. He said that it was clear that eventually Germany would intend to fly people back to Italy and Greece, where most migrants and asylum seekers first enter the EU.

"In Italy, even before corona there were problems facing those who were sent back. Lots of them face homelessness for instance," Burkhardt told dpa. He said he feared that the coronavirus restrictions which hit Italy particularly hard would only make this situation more devastating for migrants and asylum seekers sent back there.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10254

Germany said  it is ready to begin sending asylum seekers who have already applied for asylum in another EU country back to those countries to complete the process. 

The so-called 'Dublin transfers' were paused towards the end of March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany's Interior Ministry told the German press agency dpa that it would be starting to transfer asylum seekers from Germany who had already started their asylum process in another EU state.

Germany, like many other EU states, lifted custom controls and some flight restrictions on June 15.

That is, providing, there is no new rise in infections in any country, the statement added. The so-called "Dublin transfers" will begin with Germany's neighboring countries, with which it shares a border.

Later, said the dpa report, Germany will start chartering flights too. Any transfers will of course take place after controls to prevent any further spread of coronavirus, said the interior ministry paper, according to dpa.

Anyone showing symptoms of coronavirus or COVID-19 will of course stay in Germany until they are no longer infectious.

The director of the pro-asylum group Pro-Asyl, Günter Burkhardt, said that the German government wasn’t being completely transparent about information they were releasing about the restart. He said that it was clear that eventually Germany would intend to fly people back to Italy and Greece, where most migrants and asylum seekers first enter the EU.

"In Italy, even before corona there were problems facing those who were sent back. Lots of them face homelessness for instance," Burkhardt told dpa. He said he feared that the coronavirus restrictions which hit Italy particularly hard would only make this situation more devastating for migrants and asylum seekers sent back there.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10254