Greece is on the European Union frontline, and needs closer co-operation with the EU to protect the union's external borders. But rather than co-operation based on high standards and mutual respect, it appears that other EU member states are all too willing to look the other way as Greece performs their dirty work of keeping migrants out.
Hundreds of unaccompanied children in Greece are fleeing from war-torn countries in a desperate search for safety, they end up in a daily struggle for survival. They work in dangerous jobs, live in squalid and unsafe places, or simply beg and sleep in parks or cardboard shacks. Worse, Greek police officials often arrest and ill-treat these children, and the chances that Greece will recognise them as refugees are close to zero.
The Dublin system fails to consider the legitimate interest asylum seekers have in choosing where to apply and unfairly allocates the burden of processing claims to the states on the EU's external frontiers.
The Greek government has come up with a novel solution to a growing backlog of asylum appeals: Abolish appeals. No backlog. No Problem.
Greece is on the European Union frontline, and needs closer co-operation with the EU to protect the union's external borders. But rather than co-operation based on high standards and mutual respect, it appears that other EU member states are all too willing to look the other way as Greece performs their dirty work of keeping migrants out.
Hundreds of unaccompanied children in Greece are fleeing from war-torn countries in a desperate search for safety, they end up in a daily struggle for survival. They work in dangerous jobs, live in squalid and unsafe places, or simply beg and sleep in parks or cardboard shacks. Worse, Greek police officials often arrest and ill-treat these children, and the chances that Greece will recognise them as refugees are close to zero.
The Dublin system fails to consider the legitimate interest asylum seekers have in choosing where to apply and unfairly allocates the burden of processing claims to the states on the EU's external frontiers.
European immigration policy has to do more than simply try to bar the door to migrants and asylum-seekers.