Greece, Stateless street newspaper, Fortress Europe: No
place for refugees (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Even though attempts to obscured, the essence of being formulated new European policy
towards asylum is none other than an attempt to banish the source of the problem, ie the
exodus of populations from areas of conflict. --- The establishment of new camps in the
European periphery and the effort to take a single central government to address the
refugee problem preparing the European public opinion on a new policy of open hostility
dimensions refugees. - The de facto policy of the EU is to allow migrants to drown, to
cause them to fear to make the trip. ---- In 2014, nearly 4,000 people corpses were
collected from the Mediterranean. And this number represents only the corpses found. The
total number of arrivals in Italy in 2014 rose more than 300% compared to 2013, with more
than 170,000 refugees.
In all Member States of the EU prosecution policies are applied, imprisonment,
deportation, torture, state and employer violence against undocumented refugees and
migrants. The Greece, a key transit country for refugees from countries that have accepted
the military intervention of the West, is one of the Member States with the most cruel
persecution policy against them.
War generates profits and corpses.
The EU's hardening against refugees and migrants began after the mass waves of refugees
caused by the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. This attitude was invested with the
ideological blame immigrants for 'terrorism', crime, unemployment. A report published by
the International Consortium of journalists shows that the World Bank ousted, the
impressive number of 3.4 million people over the last five years. The financing of
privatization, the land grab and dams, supporting companies and governments accused of
rape, murder and torture, and putting $ 50 billion in projects that are characterized by
extreme peril and "irreversible and unprecedented" social effects, the World Bank has
contributed massively to the migration flow of poor people around the world.
Dealing with EU issues Asylum - Immigration - Borders began with the Treaty of Maastricht
(1992), where for the first time the EU has competence in matters of Internal Affairs and
Justice, as a logical consequence of the need of institutional immunity of four freedoms
enshrined in Maastricht .
In 1995 it signed by some Member States the "Schengen Convention", which among other
things established the conditions for entry - free movement in the "Schengen" and the
"Schengen visa".
Created the "Schengen Information System" (SIS I), which is the first bank registration
and exchange of information, the first official profiling at EU level. On Schengen,
defined the concept of "unwanted" alien's "suspected to public policy , health and safety. "
Created even the "Eurodac", ie the bank registration, processing and exchange
fingerprints, which should only be recognized who apply for asylum (in order to apply the
Dublin Regulation) but that actually used in the profiling of every alien who will "meet"
with the authorities.
For "illegal" immigration. The Directive passed in 2008, provides 18 months' imprisonment,
deportation and prohibition of entry into the EU for five years. Member states of the EU
(particularly those located in the south, and the eastern border), are full of immigrant
detention centers and refugees. Booking Centres to co-exist in the EU and a number of
African and Eastern countries. The conditions are intolerable and inhumane everywhere,
which has provoked uprisings and hunger strikes by prisoners refugees and immigrants. This
brief reference to the mechanisms that shaped the "fortress Europe" demonstrates that they
were not exclusive product of the liberal right-wing bourgeois parties, as hinted various
social democratic, "left" parties, movements and NGOs, but rather a universal agreement of
all who make up bourgeois political system, with a few exceptions of some small leftist
parties.
Hope that is watery grave
"It is our job to save people, not one of the obligations of the EU." "
(Fabrice Leggeri head of Frontex in Italy)
In transitional camps in Libya before the risky business of crossing the "Blue Desert" as
they call the Mediterranean migrants, playing football, wrestling and gather together
their few money so even a most poor friend, to be able to pay for the trip. A man says
that the tiny wooden boat, flanked by dolphins, as did the journey, three on each side, as
guardian angels, and that was that gave him hope. The smugglers mix water with gasoline,
so people carrying not drink quickly and cost more money. And the EU's response, led by
the British government, was to reduce the basic rescue operation, "Mare Nostrum". The
James Brokenshire, the British minister, defended the interruption of the rescue program
"Mare Nostrum", the emetic argument that this program, encouraged migration.
Total disregard for refugee flows, which themselves caused by military and paramilitary
operations in Africa and the broader Middle East, the leaders of the EU are now attempting
to exploit the carnage victims to prepare another military operation in Libya - this time
on the pretext of tackling smugglers.
In the land of "Xenios Zeus"
In the first five months of 2015, more than 42,000 people, mostly refugees have entered
Greece by sea. This figure is six times that of the same period last year (6,500) and
almost the same as the total number of arrivals throughout 2014 (43,500).
Refugees crossing the eastern Aegean from Turkey in small unseaworthy boats and
inflatables. Alight in up to 15 different Greek Islands or rescued by the Greek
coastguard. Larger arrivals are on the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos and the
Dodecanese, especially in Kos and Leros. Smaller numbers of refugees have also crossed and
the land border between Greece and Turkey in Evros.
The large number of refugees arriving in the Greek islands has caused major congestion.
The refugees, including families with children, have no choice but to sleep outside.
Additionally, many refugees disembark in remote beaches, including elderly and young
children are forced to walk for many kilometers, carrying their few belongings, due to
lack of means of transport.
The UNHCR ,. It calls on the institutions and EU agencies, to further strengthen their
support to Greece, as well as NGOs to enable them to directly support communities in the
Greek islands and southern Italy, which try to tackle the humanitarian crisis refugees and
migrants by sea. UNHCR It estimates that by the end of May, almost 90,000 refugees and
migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015. Among them 46,500 who landed in Italy and
42,000 in Greece. Smaller numbers were recorded in Spain (920) and Malta (91).
Meanwhile, 1,850 refugees and migrants have died or are missing at sea.
The "Pontius Pilate" that make EU citizens
Immigration illustrates a feature of modern life, which is pure crime by proxy. Such as
unmanned aircraft and warships, migration policy allows powerful cause horror feeble
without soiling their hands. The EU is dissolved and reduced society, full of suspicion
and mistrust towards others, even if perverse citizens struggling with loneliness and
alienation and this makes us less human.
Forget the fact that this society could not function without immigrants. Because no one
else will pick up your vegetables aximerota the fields and will not get up at 4 am to
clean your office. Forget the massive fiscal contribution of immigrants to the Treasury.
The issue does not concern the economy. Too often, even a positive attitude, considering
immigration by the numbers, money and benefit, to consider based on the view of "what they
can offer to us?". This matter, however, concerns three things: humanity, solidarity and
responsibility. How many more deaths can withstand our stomach?
Evagrios True
* The above text was published in panel 30 (July-August 2015) of Stateless street newspaper.
