Migration: Left party leader: Planned EU asylum reform is inhumane

The leader of the left-wing faction in the European Parliament, Martin Schirdewan, has criticized the planned EU asylum reform as inhumane. “With the EU migration package, the human rights situation of refugees is further deteriorating,” said the Left party leader of the German Press Agency.

“No one should believe the hypocritical crocodile tears with which representatives of the SPD and Greens will regret this result.” He accused them of playing a “transparent game” because they would first agree to the inhumane reform and then unsuccessfully try to mitigate it.

Today the European Parliament in Brussels wants to vote on the controversial asylum reform. Accordingly, the member states should be obliged to have uniform border procedures at the external borders. In particular, there are plans to deal much more harshly with people from countries that are considered relatively safe. Until a decision on the asylum application is made, people should be able to be accommodated in detention camps under prison-like conditions for up to twelve weeks.

In contrast to Schirdewan, CSU European politician Manfred Weber praised the reform as one of the most important in this legislative period. “People in Europe expect politicians to provide answers to this great challenge,” said the parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democratic party family EVP to the German Press Agency. “It’s about an orderly process to reduce immigration, strict controls at the EU’s external borders and the fight against illegal migration, against the business model of smugglers and organized crime.”