Georgia, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco : Green to stay with no on safe States of Origin

The Greens have reiterated before a Bundestag vote on extending the so-called safe countries of Origin for their rejection. Union and the SPD had failed in 2017, with a similar design to the Maghreb States in the Federal Council of the resistance of several countries, in which Green or Left join the government.

"our green Position, nothing has changed: the Instrument of Safe countries of Origin' solves none of the problems mentioned in Germany, and contradicts, in my view, the criteria of the Federal constitutional court," said party leader Anna Lena Baerbock before the vote this Friday. "With a view to the democracy efforts in the Maghreb countries it is, on the contrary, even counterproductive." Therefore, the Greens in the Bundestag would reject the bill of the large coalition.

It comes to the classification of Georgia, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, as safe countries of Origin. The Federal government wants to ensure that applications of asylum seekers from these countries, the faster a decision can be made. Also the removal should be accelerated.

"There, where we join the government in the countries, it will come in the Bundesrat, due to the green Position to an abstention, or rejection," said Baerbock. With one caveat: The green-and-black-governed Baden-Württemberg have made it clear that its approval of a "sustainable concept" for the protection of vulnerable groups slopes. The to your knowledge, is not yet.

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The interior policy spokesman of the Union group, Mathias Middelberg (CDU), criticized the arguments of the Greens as "advanced", "Who comes from the Maghreb countries or Georgia and there really is tracked, you can also get in the future with us protection," he told the newspaper "The world". "The classification of the Maghreb States and of Georgia as safe countries of Origin would be a major step forward for the regulation of the Migration." He referred to the decline of irregular migration from the Western Balkans, after they have been declared in the year 2015 to such safe countries of Origin. to get

the consent of a sufficient number of countries, has revised the interior Committee of the Bundestag on the draft bill: a foreigner, where the risk is, that you are aware of their rights in the asylum procedure because they have "out of shame or other reasons," inhibitions, their reasons for seeking refuge, should now have access to specialised legal advice. The can be the victims of torture, victims of trafficking, unaccompanied minors or people who have been discriminated against because of their sexual orientation in their country of origin.

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In lower Saxony, the Greens in the past year, the government resigned. When Baden-agrees-Württemberg, could not fail in the extension however, if the consents of the SPD and the Left ruled state of Brandenburg. (dpa)