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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-02-25
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[01] Procedures for rapid returns to Turkey exist, Dutch Migration
Minister Dijkhof stresses
[01] Procedures for rapid returns to Turkey exist, Dutch Migration
Minister Dijkhof stresses
BRUSSELS (ANA-MPA/ C. Vassilaki) -- There are procedures that will
allow the rapid return to Turkey of all those that have no right to
remain in the Schengen area, Netherlands' Migration Minister and EU
Justice and Home Affairs Council chair Klaas Dijkhof said on Thursday,
in an interview with the ANA-MPA. He denied that the aim was to set up
"de facto" concentration camps for migrants in Greece.
Dijkhof said the goal was for all asylum applications to be submitted
in the country of first reception and for the burdens to then be shared
out in a second phase, through relocation procedures.
You said that if [refugee] flows are not reduced by March 7, additional
measures will be needed. Permit me to ask directly: is the aim to set
up in Greece what we would call 'de jure' transit zones and 'de facto'
concentration camps, as many call them?
"No. The aim is to reduce flows toward all of Europe, including
Greece. But what must also be done is to stop this view that refugees
can move and select their destination. According to the Schengen Code,
someone must apply for asylum in the first country they reach or else they
will not have the right to proceed. After that, we must use relocation
so that there is a distribution of burdens and not this policy of sending
refugees on that we have seen in the last year."
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