“Juncker was at pains to
point out that the “group of the willing” was not evidence of a
two-speed Europe.”
A esta frase juntar a leitura
destas duas passagens:
“The cabinet is looking at
the option of developing a smaller open border area made up of the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria, the Telegraaf
says on Wednesday. This ‘mini-Schengen’ area would work together
and control its external borders more carefully, the paper says. “
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/11/dutch-consider-mini-schengen-zone-to-cut-refugee-influx/
“Dutch finance minister
Jeroen Dijsselbloem warned that countries which fail to adequately
guard Europe's borders and do not take in a fair share of refugees
could find themselves outside the borders of a future "mini-Schengen"
zone.
In an interview in Belgian
business dailies De Tijd and L'Echo on Friday, Dijsselbloem, who is
also the chair of the euro zone group of finance ministers, said the
EU's passport-free Schengen zone could not work if only a few
countries gave shelter to refugees.
"There are a few
countries that are carrying the heaviest burden in the asylum crisis,
taking in the most refugees," he told the papers, naming Sweden,
Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.”
É perfeitamente claro que os
que pertencem ao grupo daqueles “que querem” reunidos através da
iniciativa de Merkel em mini-cimeira, pensam já numa alternativa (
embora os alemães não queiram ouvir falar nisso ) exclusivamente
Norte Europeia de o estabelecimento de uma zona exclusiva, denominada
Mini-Schengen.
Ao acontecer, isso seria a
confirmação definitiva da separação da Europa não apenas em
Oeste e Leste … mas também entre Norte e Sul, confirmando
definitivamente o fim da ideia da Unidade da Europa, e confirmando a
sua divisão em zonas hierárquicas de superioridade e inferioridade,
umas dignas de confiança tanto na perspectiva cultural e financeira
… e outras inferiores e não dignas de confiança … A divisão da
Europa em “clubes” e “divisões” com várias hierarquias de
prestígio, efectividade e confiança.
OVOODOCORVO
Merkel
forges new alliance on refugees
German
chancellor upstages EU-Turkey summit with talks on resettling
asylum-seekers.
By HANS VON DER
BURCHARD AND JACOPO BARIGAZZI 11/29/15, 6:06 PM CET Updated 11/29/15,
10:15 PM CET
EU leaders agreed
Sunday to give significant political and financial incentives to
Turkey in exchange for its cooperation in stemming the flow of
refugees from the Middle East to Europe.
The deal includes an
initial payment of €3 billion from the EU to improve conditions for
Syrian refugees currently in Turkey, an agreement to loosen visa
restrictions on Turks traveling in Europe, and a promise from
Brussels to “speed up the tempo” of negotiations on Ankara’s
bid to join the EU, as European Council President Donald Tusk put it.
“We do not expect
anyone to guard our borders for us,” Tusk said after the meeting
between all 28 EU leaders and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
“That can and should only be done by Europeans. But we expect a
major step towards changing the rules of the game when it comes to
stemming the migration flow that is coming to the EU via Turkey.”
But there were
divisions among some countries about how far to go in securing
Turkish support in dealing with the refugee crisis, including the
reopening of accession talks, as well as on how quickly
asylum-seekers could be resettled from Turkey to the EU.
And the deal was
partly upstaged by an effort from German Chancellor Angela Merkel —
holding her own mini-summit earlier Sunday afternoon — to convince
several countries to speed up implementation of a resettlement scheme
for refugees from Turkey to the EU.
Merkel held talks
with a breakaway group of leaders in an attempt to sideline those
countries reluctant to take in asylum-seekers. She was joined by the
leaders of Sweden, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Belgium and Greece at the talks, held two hours before their EU
counterparts arrived for the full summit.
“The aim was to
bring the implementation of the EU-Turkey action plan forward,”
Merkel told reporters Sunday night. “We will start with this
implementation within the next days, in cooperation with the
Commission. We have no time to lose.”
No figures were
discussed during the meeting, Merkel said, calling it a “question
to decide in the future.”
Some of the
countries involved in the group were reluctant to take part in new
refugee resettlement programs because they are politically unpopular,
a diplomat said.
Earlier on Sunday
the German newspaper FAZ reported that Merkel hoped to convince the
countries to agree to the resettlement of 400,000 refugees from
Turkey to Europe, a figure that none of the participants would
confirm upon arrival in Brussels.
The “coalition of
the willing,” as it was branded by some diplomats, has asked the
European Commission to put forward a proposal before the next
scheduled summit of EU leaders in mid-December for a voluntary
resettlement scheme, an EU official said, adding that also other
countries could take part in it.
The EU-Turkey action
plan, which was presented by the European Commission in October,
offers Turkey €3 billion to improve the situation of refugees.
European Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker, who was at the pre-summit talks, said
he was “very much in favor” of the resettlement of Syrian
refugees from Turkey to EU countries willing to accept them.
“Turkey hosts 2.5
million refugees today,” he said. “We must come to a system under
which Turkey provides a maximum of border securing,” while Europe
provides money and relieves part of the strain by taking some
refugees. The aim would be to create “legal migration,” Juncker
said.
Juncker was at pains
to point out that the “group of the willing” was not evidence of
a two-speed Europe.
Germany is
frustrated by the lack of support for a new resettlement scheme for
Syrian refugees from Turkey. At a meeting of EU ambassadors Friday,
Berlin wanted a stronger commitment to resettlements in the final
conclusions, the document that wraps up the decision of the summit,
but its line was rejected, a diplomat said.
The final summit
agreement offers to re-energize Turkey’s accession process, but
makes no specific reference to any new areas of negotiation — known
as chapters — being opened in Turkey’s EU accession bid, apart
from one on further economic integration.
An earlier proposal
to open several new areas of the accession talks, including on
energy, judiciary and fundamental rights, and foreign, security and
defense policy, had been taken out of the final conclusions because
of objections from Cyprus, a diplomat said. The eastern Mediterranean
island has blocked Turkey’s accession talks for years, citing the
presence of Turkish troops in the north of the island.
During the summit
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and other leaders expressed
concern over human rights issues, including the jailing of two
prominent journalists in Turkey, said one EU official with knowledge
of the talks.
The journalists,
Cumhuriyet newspaper’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar, and the paper’s
Ankara representative Erdem Gul, were charged with spying after
reporting on alleged arms smuggling by Turkish security forces into
Syria.
The final summit
conclusions also state that €3 billion in aid that the EU will give
Turkey is an “initial” payment, meaning that further financial
support is likely.
European Council
President Donald Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland, one of the
countries most reluctant to take in refugees, warned EU states not to
“be naive.”
“Let me stress
that we are not re-writing the EU enlargement policy,” Tusk said.
“The negotiating framework and the relevant conclusions continue to
apply, including its merit-based nature and the respect for European
values, also on human rights.”
This article has
been updated.
Correction: Donald
Tusk was prime minister of Poland. An earlier version of the story
misstated his previous position.
Authors:
Hans von der
Burchard and Jacopo Barigazzi
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