does. the vast majority of people in germany are still willing to take and refugees and other vulnerable individuals to go after the human i think that shows that a large percentage of the population does not consider this to be a disaster. but even back then merkel's decision a vote mixed emotions in europe. i really admired marco but taking that initiative and making clear also to other member states we should do that we should offer protection to refugees and it's really to blame for the other member states to shy away and leave miracle alone with her attitude. many blamed brussels the not creating european consensus on how to deal with refugees but the root of the problem lies much deeper hungary took a different approach its government stated they would not tolerate the e.u.

all fellow member states dictating terms to them and forcing them to take in refugees the. mass migration can change a country in a number of ways in a rotter of a short time it can change it socially it can change of culturally english thickly etc you cannot force upon economic migration and mass on on countries countries and people have to have the liberty to say yes or no your question hungary respects other member states who may wish to live with mass migration and want to welcome hundreds of thousands millions of people coming here and it's that's their decision but we expect that they also respect our decision. in the german state of north rhine-westphalia thousands of refugees arrived in the fall of 2015 in the city of dortmund or the railway station at 2 sold off airport. people and just a little force so eager to help. at 1st we couldn't even engage all the people

offering their help with and i kept telling them to please bear in mind this was a marathon not a sprint and that's on it most likely still need the help in a few years and it was challenging for all of us but we knew we were doing the right thing to get. other european countries also open their doors to refugees but most some 900000 came to germany but it needs germany's open arms are the voices could also be heard that was the birth of the loudest were right wing groups protesting predominantly against muslim refugees since then many european politicians have feared these movements could attract more followers the foreign policy spokes person of the c.d.u. c.s.u. parliamentarian group is you again hot he knows just how sensitive the subject of refugees is in his circles is that as yesterday someone turned to me and said that we really needed to be careful with how we dealt with refugees to make sure we

didn't get into the same situation as last time he was scared of being branded as right wing simply for worrying about the refugee situation he doesn't sympathize with the right wing and has no issues with foreigners or people in need he just wanted everything handled in an orderly fashion i think that's an opinion well worth being a hurry to. in order to reduce the number of migrants entering the e.u. several states took action bit by bit the so-called balkan route was closed making it harder to reach the e.u. via turkey on dry land. in september 25th dane hungary closed its border to serbia in march 26th other countries including slovenia and croatia followed suit. maybe so-called hold spots had already been set up in italy and greece they were designed to identify and register refugees directly at

the e.u. border where they could then proceed with their asylum hearing. morea on less boss was one such hot spot. for him and not let on for instance over and retrospect a lot when fundamentally wrong in 2015 but because the hot spots on the greek islands were supposed to test distributions census and hopefully they were meant to enable rapid processing newcomers were to be registered quickly and distributed within the new member states to teach baton. but this did not happen and in march 26th jane to deter more new arrivals the e.u. struck a deal with turkey where several 1000000 refugees were stuck in transit the main idea was that turkey was to stop these people from finding their way into the e.u. . anyone who wrongfully entered greece from turkey would be sent back. for every refugee return to this way one syrian

refugee living in turkey would be allowed to enter the e.u. . in return turkey was promised free visas for all its citizens and fresh association talks with the e.u. along with 6000000000 euros but the deal was only successful in parts as of anyone's frog must going to be landing us the if we ask ourselves what we can learn from the e.u. turkey declaration then i think the answer is supporting refugees and a 3rd country. the 6000000 out of paying out 6000000000 euros for syrians in turkey significantly lower the number of syrians trying to enter the e.u. irregularly find that part worked. what didn't work has now become our main challenge and i did also for them although the numbers were low although one year after the deal in april 27th only 6000 people were waiting on the greek islands for

a decision on their applications it is and we still couldn't manage to process them quickly. and if i had this vision that was mostly a question of political will and a strategy of the greek authorities and. as your other senator john. these created dire conditions in the camps and international dilemma. in april 26th seen the pope visited last post to offer comfort to those stranded on the island back of in many had already been waiting for months for a decision on their asylum application today waiting periods can extend to over a year is this fine design in these as it did in this case there's only one explanation for why people are still stuck on the island deterrents it is a legitimate illegal and immoral to instrumentalists human beings as a means to that end selective and. that if ever. we 1st this

is morning in october 2019 the camp director really a lone journalist to see how the refugees were living so we filmed with a hidden camera to see for ourselves what the situation was really like. that. was i. we met fi again a mohammed by chance i had just arrived 3 days ago and was still new to it all shock and sadness and yesterday was very cold and we didn't have any blankets at night we switched locations. that afternoon cleared out or not so we spent the night by the wayside then it started to rain so we moved to the larger camp where the african stay. we didn't want to come here the parents did for us. this is where they slipped the past nights right next to the entrance there's a sleeping hierarchy at the camp newcomers have to make do with mats then they can

graduate to a tent with often 4 families in one finally they can move up to a container with 15 people together. was this is where they. not for food they have to wait 3 times a day many go hungry the new arrivals don't receive any cash for the 1st 6 months so they have no choice but to line up you know. financially this is a smelly toilets to. say this is the state of our hygiene and if we see a doctor because we have a cold he tells us to drink water. but i mean they made us have that's why we don't want to come piano lessons and they say the clean one is a very far away my parents accompany me to the toilet but it's still dangerous. we see how these children we see how these children their mental condition

deteriorates. and they attempt suicide if they have self harming tendencies. in kentucky that is so under them and they completely stop relating to each other. you know each other their childhood is taken away from them and we see their parents as well they have lost hope completely. they have an incredible sense of guilt for having brought their children to europe. as good as they had hoped this would be a safe place that would provide education. and then they have to cope with the reality of the morea candidate where none of this is available for them. and they fall into a total depressive state of the person parents and children and she didn't across the valley last the small feel each gloria some $1000.00 people live here alongside their new neighbors what used to be empty streets and now live play. opinions in

morea a polarized few can still agree. that yesterday they took our cable right out of the ground they stole my animals and slaughter them and they've ruined everything i suppose we're expected to leave to make room for them i doubt there is any other way that's the problem we can't stand it here anymore should i or myself and take to the streets they've taken everything from a. fiance to the one because these people have rights even mention up there in pain they've lost their homes i'm on their side if this isn't their fault and there are others who are to blame. to make it to europe many willing to risk their lives in persian they say we're playing the game it's like the hunger games if they lose the game they lose their lives. or whatever and some new refugees have just arrived they played the game and made it this far and had to be in turkey

we were crammed in a delivery van and they didn't fit in my happiest this time they played the game and now they're in the us. i want to do this with them. bealefeld in westphalia in 2015 some 6000 refugees were taken in here. their fun was just 12 when he made his way to germany from afghanistan through turkey and greece he traveled alone without any relatives he was born in iran he hasn't seen his mother in 5 years she too is on the run and has been trapped on less boss for about a year with her 2 small daughters he looks at their pictures every day says we're still going it's a long she didn't know how long it would take. well you thought she'd be able to

continue on to germany so she thought it'd take about a month maybe 5 and. she also witnessed the fire in moria on the 8th of september this was a few it was awful she grabbed my 2 sisters and ran out of everything else all their clothes and belongings and it all burned so but and. christine naaman from the aid organization by its cries helps reunite families but it's not easy to feel thirty's examine each case very carefully some parents deliberately send their children ahead to germany alone in the hopes of being allowed to follow in heir funds case greece has now issued a takeover request. of the german government the federal office for migration and refugees has rejected greece's request they argue that this is not a case of hardship and separation from your family apparently does not constitute

don chipp case. we definitely want to challenge this decision before court and we've already requested an injunction with our local court of claims we want the court to rule that the author already is responsible for reuniting the family must do so. we hope it will. be sure this is i want to be able to help my mother's best and. and us and i can't i don't know what i'll do if sure in a minute i just want to help my mother this and i hope her application is processed faster and that she'll be allowed to come to germany. and indeed the oath or t's do give their consent 3 days after speaking with their phone we received word that his mother and sisters have been allowed to come to germany.

and that. their fury is freezing cold so too in moria hi again mohammad has been in the camp for 5 months now i'm fine did you say porat the ship was cold last night. what did you do. said i used several blankets otherwise it's too cold. fake his father comes to gracious. how was you know and. there was a commotion at 4 in the morning that woke us up that somebody had cut the front flap of a neighbour's tent opened it and was trying to get in there. which was that they were in the hospital. tents being slit open muggings robberies the desperate stealing from the destitute it happens almost every night in

a camp where 40 percent of the inhabitants a children decide security hygiene is another issue. they don't leave their parents don't leave the tents at night not even for the toilet. because they're scared of being assaulted by gangs them. this is the life the people are living instead of going to a toilet using diapers or using a plastic bottle the lot of people instead of going to a toilet using a diapers or using a plastic bottle german doctor since is from sun and is a voluntary an aid worker he tends to fire her family medical treatment is an exception to the rule here but does the government have any doctors here. is not in this camp you know the center for disease prevention sends doctors to give new arrivals a preliminary check out. but it's basically to make sure they still have

a. tortoise. but even if their bodies survive the ordeal it's nearly impossible not to succumb to the psychological strain that weighs on adults and children alike. children argue a lot. that means. they yell. so the grown ups so frustrated in the children get into fights. exactly. even before the fire there were plans for a new camp out in the middle of nowhere. to house 78000 people and to replace moria many locals wouldn't have it then if you like just our islands are not some prison for lost souls there are people who want to live their lives the refugees will destroy everything here. it's going to be a long battle but i think we will win it 7.

shortly after the battle over the new camp again some locals tried stopping refugees from even reaching the island of. they confronted aid organizations blocked the streets to moria when u.n.h.c.r. camp went up in flying and amid all the chaos thousands of children including 5 a mo hamad is there anything good here. no no scenes do you see anything good here . i don't think it's a party in iceland they spend their vacations on these islands. with the fed oh you might like it but we don't you can come and go as you please we have to stay and. think again i wanted to go to athens. but on and what's there things are good there they say no fighting.

it's been 5 months since the new zion family has arrived and they still haven't been heard athens is like a faraway train meanwhile the new government there has tightened asylum regulations anyone arriving after january 2020 receives a decision within one month one after 2 applications from afghanistan are approved but anyone who finally makes their way from list to athens will most likely end up here in victoria park many sleepier according to the new asylum nor approved asylum seekers are provided food and shelter for 30 days after that they're on their own how can you survive with a newborn baby in a public park if you had only been here for over a month now it's a broken life in this heat we can't find an apartment it's too expensive but are now on a. priest as government seems to be operating under the assumption

the recognized refugees will continue further north even though that would be illegal hardly any want to stay in greece anyway and the poor conditions in the islands aminta deter others to nice living in moria makes you depressed at absolutely. what does that mean depressed. you lose your mind. in late february 2020 tensions at the turkish greek border mounted and turkish president and the one opened the border. assist for calming the need that completely backfired the greek government responded with an iron fist you know it suspended the right to seek asylum which is a basic human right for several weeks off and it violently forced people back over the border it gives to be granted sort of crystals like. greece

sealed off the border and left thousands of migrants stranded on the other side. just inch out of that region that you don't want them this year at the beginning of this year the greek government decided to close the border despite the fact that area one was using the thousands of people as a bargaining chip and it's thought that shows that we need to demonstrate strength that the extra mile border keeping the aspect of human rights in the back of our minds we need to show that we won't let air go on black males as well as even the from the headline a priceless and. then some 6 months later on september 8th morea went up in flames. throughout germany people took to the streets to demand more refute g.'s be taken in including in cologne dusseldorf bielefeld and other cities in north rhine-westphalia. just fear i don't think we are treating them fairly we are so

privileged and we have the means to help but we don't. really need to make clear that we are ready to taking refugees view this plenty of room hand well off counters or of course we need a european solution but if germany doesn't lead the way who will follow this old i've got. the city of cologne office to take in 150 p. . will other cities and towns also offer help. to seal golf is also willing to take another $150.00 people. they've had time to gather experience with helping refugees since 2015 of them in a community accommodation facilities currently have several 100 spots available now on a completely empty but all of them can make room for several more we can take an individual house as well as families of the uns are but if i were to be told that we had to take in several 100 people today we could mobilize enough resources at short notice

to actually fit them all in one as long as there isn't a european wide solution and i don't think there's any insight then each municipality should be allowed to decide how many they take we have been saying for years that we can handle more refugees at 1st. but mean it's a palace he's aren't allowed to make that decision without approval from germany's interior minister and he doesn't want germany going it alone. if we do that then you can say goodbye to a european solution and help in this new you are in the past years i kept hearing the same remark in brussels from other member states they say this is our problem and we shouldn't be bothering them with our problems or until. one day after the fire 400 miners are flown from les pauls to the greek mainland 10 european countries have announced that they're willing to take them in germany will take in 150 but this had already been agreed upon before the fire.

meanwhile the endless arguing between member states continues. hungary and the north inspired when germany announces it will take in some $400.00 refugee families from less boss once again there is some chinese any humanitarian aid will simply create new incentives for more people to come to europe. and. if we really did work together with the greek government to get people off the greek islands and bring them into europe i'm sure the camps would fill right back up again. that would create a so-called pull effect fick and send the wrong message to other refugees. in the east or basically we'd be telling them that if they ever managed to reach a greek island it would only be a matter of time before they'd be in hamburg or. mentions it as of india and pakistan so if we just take

a few kids out of lesbos then some european governments think that each single child could be the incentive for another 1000000 people to come on. that's ridiculous. the only thing you're a pig rezone is that rejected asylum seekers should be deported. giving the up to those who have been rejected must leave that's the vast majority of people arriving at our accidental borders. then the citizens of europe will be happy to welcome those in need mention in that way we can stand up to right wing populism secondly if we can assure citizens that the people coming in are true refugee community flutie yes. but many attempts at repatriation fail because the countries of origin not willing to take these people back. on the let's narrow it cycle that the past years have taught us that europe can only manage to

deport those obliged to leave the country in large numbers when the countries we depend on per cooperation are made an attractive offer was a collective has become and. within the e.u. will manage to pass the new pact on migration and asylum will depend on its member states but they are as far away from reaching a consensus as they were 5 years ago. and when it comes to migration 5 years of agonizing debate have shown that there's nothing left to say all that's left now to be honest is different sides insisting they were right who made the right call in 2015 those who wanted to close the borders or those who wanted to show humanity i hope we will manage to cut through this gordian knot and admit that both sides have valid points and we were in a situation where this migration policy has been blocked for several years and that in my view mean is that those that have the lowest ambition on migration has

actually been able to set a standard and we are paying a price for the trust between member states who are paying a price when it comes to solidarity between member states and migrants are paying a price the idea behind moria has failed but what will happen with the hotspots if the e.u. migration pact is passed i'm afraid we will be faced with more yes even more rios in other places maybe even other border area. yes of the european union as long as this solidarity principle is not really solidarity and i think therefore we will be stuck in this situation of in human situations and very long and insecure waiting periods. is there any way to solve this how. born on the net in convincing hungary

poland and other governments that have no interest in finding a solution isn't going to help either the news on the whole nor will it serve germany's interests. don't you think if the german government were to say now that irregular migration has slowed more than it has in many years we could build a coalition with other countries to show us how it's done. and we could implement our goals quite quickly. it would inspire others to join and that would be a truly european approach and for that's how the shang in zone or the euro came about was that that's how the european community came to be in 1950 it was founded by a group of countries that got together to solve a common problem. but until we reach that point it seems there's still a long way ahead of us meanwhile the catastrophe in moria continues despite fires despite pacts and that's migration policy made in europe.

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