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EU: MILITARISING MIGRATION

22 November 2013

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See the full text: EU members’ warships must not be deployed against refugees off the coast of Lampedusa! (pdf).
Press release by Andrej Hunko, Member of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe:

"“Using the Navy and Air Force to combat migration would be an inconceivable militarisation of EU policy on refugees. The German government must take immediate steps to ensure that this proposal never becomes reality,...The EEAS also unequivocally states the true aim of the EU military operation: it would build pressure in negotiations with Morocco and Turkey on ‘readmission agreements’, which would allow unwanted migrants to be easily deported to these countries. According to the EEAS, the Turkish government could, if it participates, even stand to gain in terms of its EU accession negotiations.”

and see European External Action Service (EEAS): Migration Flows in the Southern Neighbourhood and their External Relations Perspective – Possible Avenues for Dialogue and Cooperation with Partner Countries, including Options for a CSDP Operation (pdf)

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