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The attack on Petzer R. de Vries not only shocked the Netherlands. And: Once again a rescue ship with hundreds of migrants on board is looking for a port in Europe – many consider the EU’s policy of isolationism to have failed.
The attack on Petzer R. de Vries shocked the Netherlands. “He was on the death list, he knew that too. (…) It was, some have said, only a matter of time before something happened to him,” says Rob Savelberg, a Dutch journalist and colleague of Peter R. de Vries .
The situation of migrants in the Mediterranean is coming to a head: The rescue ship “Ocean Viking” last took 572 people in distress on board – and has been looking for an EU country to take in the refugees for days. And according to official sources, almost a thousand people are in This year she died while fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea Moderator Michel Abdollahi talks about the deadly isolationist policy of Europe – and what a more humane migration policy could look like in the podcast “Today important” with political scientist Volker Heins from the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen.
Foreclosure only helps smugglers
Heins does away with a popular counter-argument for a relaxed migration policy. “When the European Union was expanded, to the south or to the east, there were very similar discourses: all of Spain will come, all of Romania,” he says. But the fears would not have come true. The political scientist therefore advocates “more open borders”: Past experience shows that no fewer people would come through a policy of foreclosure: “The result was that people paid smugglers”.
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Podcast “important today”
Sure, opinionated, on the 12: “important today” is not just a news podcast. We set topics and initiate debates – with poise and sometimes uncomfortably. This is what host Michel Abdollahi and his team speak out for stern– and RTL reporters: inside with the most exciting people from politics, society and entertainment. They let all voices have their say, the quiet and the loud. Anyone who hears “important today” starts the day informed and can have a sound say.
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