Berlin – ESI at Bundestag hearing on reforming the common European asylum system
16 April 2018
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to speak at a hearing at the German Bundestag on reforming the common European asylum system. In his statement he stressed the need for a "efficient and humane European system that can win majorities". He said that such a system had not existed for the past 20 years and that the proposals by the EU Commission, the Council, and the European Parliament would not achieve this either. Gerald argued that the EU needs compacts with countries of origin so that, after a day X, unrecognised refuges could be returned after having had a fast and fair asylum procedure
- Öffentliche Anhörung am Montag, dem 16. April 2018, 14.00 Uhr zur Reform des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems - BTDrucksachen 19/577, 19/244
- Summary of all statements (in German)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, Constanze von Bullion, "Flüchtlingspolitik - Schwieriges Gelände" ("Refugee policy - difficult terrain") (16 April 2018)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Michael Martens, "Amnesty International: Idealismus ist blind für Kompromisse" ("If you don't compromise you lose") (26 March 2018)
- ESI newsletter: Macron, Italy and the mirage of mass return (18 March 2018)
- ESI core facts: The Italian Magnet – Deaths, arrivals and returns in the Central Mediterranean (13 March 2018)
- Refugees Deeply, John Dalhuisen Gerald Knaus, How Italy Can Combine Migration Control With Human Rights (13 March 2018)
- ESI paper: "Amsterdam in the Mediterranean" – How a Dutch-style asylum system can help resolve the Mediterranean refugee crisis (26 January 2018)
- ESI core facts: Refugees and asylum in the Aegean – The impact of the EU-Turkey statement (26 January 2018)
- Internationale Politik, Gerald Knaus, Eine prinzipientreue europäische Asylpolitik ist möglich und mehrheitsfähig (September 2017)
- ESI proposals for the refugee crises in the Central Mediterranean and the Aegean: www.esiweb.org/refugees
- Media reactions to ESI refugee proposals