End the EU’s Externalisation Policy!
The lack of safe refugee routes and the restrictive migration policy of the European Union and its member states are forcing people on the move to take increasingly dangerous routes. Externalisation – the outsourcing of border controls and responsibility for asylum to non EU countries – is a central component of the European closed-door policy. Attempting to prevent people from fleeing curtails their right to asylum and causes suffering as well as thousands of deaths at the EU’s external border in the central Mediterranean.
Read our demands to end the EU’s externalisation policy in our new position paper!
The EU and its member states must end any cooperation with Tunisia and Libya in the field of migration or maritime search and rescue that leads to the violation and restriction of refugee rights.
The EU and its member states have to protect the right to asylum in the EU.
We expecte the German federal government to clearly oppose the outsourcing of EU migration control to Tunisia and Libya and urge an end to existing cooperation agreements.
The German federal government has to end the personnel and financial support for the Tunisian Coast Guard and Rescue Coordination Centre through actors such as the German Federal Police and GIZ.
The German federal government should speak out at EU level and to other member states against the outsourcing of asylum procedures to third countries, such as the Italy-Albania Agreement, and thus stand up for the rights of people seeking protection as enshrined in EU and international law.
