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[18. Jul 2018]

Austrian Presidency document: Walling-off Europe

The Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU provided an informal paper: "a new, better protection system under which no applications for asylum are filed on EU territory".

A crude paper authored by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU and circulated to other Member States's security officials refers disparagingly to "regions that are characterised by patriarchal, anti-freedom and/or backward-looking religious attitudes" and calls for "a halt to illegal migration to Europe" and the "development of a new, better protection system under which no applications for asylum are filed on EU territory," with some minor exceptions.

See :: Austrian Presidency: Informal Meeting of COSI, Vienna, Austria, 2-3 July 2018: Strengthening EU External Border Protection and a Crisis-Resistant EU Asylum System (pdf)

The document was produced for an 'Informal Meeting of COSI' (the Council of the EU's Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security) which took place on 2 and 3 July in Vienna, and the proposals it contains were the subject of numerous subsequent press articles - with the Austrian President one of the many who criticised the government's ultra-hardline approach.

See :: Austrian president criticises government's asylum proposals (The Local, link); :: Austrian proposal requires asylum seekers to apply outside EU: Profil (Reuters, link); :: Right of asylum: Austria’s unsettling proposals to member states (EurActiv, link)

Some of the proposals were also discussed at an informal meeting of the EU's interior ministers on Friday 13 July, where :: the topic of "return centres" was also raised. The Luxembourg interior minister Jean Asselborn reportedly said that such an idea "shouldn't be discussed by civilized Europeans." See :: No firm EU agreement on Austrian proposals for reducing migration (The Local, link)

The Austrian Presidency paper proposes:

"2.1. By 2020

By 2020 the following goals could be defined:


2.2. By 2025

By 2025 the following goals could be realised:

And includes the following statements, amongst others:

See :: Austrian Presidency: Informal Meeting of COSI, Vienna, Austria, 2-3 July 2018: Strengthening EU External Border Protection and a Crisis-Resistant EU Asylum System (pdf)

Source :: statewatch.org (17. Jul 2018)