Instead of making refugees political pawns and kicking them back to countries like Turkey, EU member states must agree to establish safe passage routes that distribute asylum seekers fairly across all 27 EU countries Opinion | se_tareh
Brussels continues to play the blame game by accusing states and other actors of misconduct without admitting to the failures of the EU’s migration policies and asylum framework. Neither the EU nor individual member states have taken any action against Poland's pushback and violence against asylum seekers.
With the development of a new and humane approach to migration, domestic asylum procedures must be regularly vetted to ensure all countries are providing fair, equal and unbiased asylum opportunities and equal rights to beneficiaries of international protection. The thousands of people stranded between Belarus and Poland are victims of a Europe-wide system that views the lives of asylum seekers as dispensable. This is not a ‘crisis’ of migrants or refugees; it is the state's political systems that are in crisis.
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