New measures to prevent refugees reaching EU
Jerome Hughes
Press TV, Brussels
The European Union Agency for Asylum, EUAA, says new refugee applications in the 27-country bloc are at a five-year high, mainly being submitted by Afghans and Syrians. On Wednesday, 19 refugees were found dead on the border between Turkey and EU-nation Greece.
It's believed they died from hypothermia. The European Commission claims it's trying to gather further information. EU home affairs ministers have been meeting to try and advance the bloc's new refugee policy known as the Migration Pact.
When it comes to the refugee crisis, civil society organisations and many EU lawmakers make the point that the West never learns from its mistakes. They are expressing concern that stoking tensions with Russia over Ukraine has the potential to create a new refugee crisis.
It's suggested war hawks in the US and NATO don't give a damn about the millions of people who have been displaced through military intervention in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Libya. As the EU's Poland and Lithuania construct a new wall along their borders with Belarus, the European Commission is promising billions of euro to expand and arm the bloc's border agency, Front-ex.
The EU's own data shows 100,000 children and teenagers go missing in the bloc every year. Most of those are refugees. Campaigners are calling for greater cooperation between police forces. With EU nations refusing to take in refugees and as billions are being spent on keeping them out, rights groups are again asking where are the bloc's much trumpeted values.
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