https://www.jstor.org/stable/48505574
European External Action
Η πολιτική υποδομή των ευρω-ατλαντικών σχέσεων, από τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο στη μετα-ψυχροπολεμική εποχή/The political background of transatlantic relations, from the Cold War to the post-Cold War era
Law of the Sea, From Grotius to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
From Common Foreign and Security Policy to European External Action Service: EU Peacekeeping operations
THE REALITY OF THE EU-TURKEY STATEMENT -How Greece has become a testing ground for policies that erode protection for refugees
17 MARCH 2017
JOINT AGENCY BRIEFING NOTE
‘(I) MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – SEEKING
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
As per the Statement, anyone arriving irregularly to the Greek
islands after 20 March 2016 is to be returned to Turkey, as a safe
country. During the “admissibility” procedure, European Asylum
Support Office (EASO) or Greek Asylum Service (GAS) caseworkers
assess not a person’s individual need for international protection, but
only whether he or she can be returned to Turkey. This procedure
essentially deflects the responsibility of Europe—one of the
wealthiest continents in the world—to Turkey, a country already
hosting 3 million refugees. There is evidence that this approach has
already encouraged other countries to question their responsibility
to give protection to refugees, and that the EU will seek to introduce
similar agreements elsewhere. Currently the EU is looking to
replicate a similar Statement with Libya, a country where both the
United Nations (UN) and the German Foreign Ministry have reported
torture and execution in migrant camps’
‘‘Presenting the current situation as a humanitarian crisis only demonstrates short-sightedness. The real crisis in Europe resides in the lack of political will,
resulting from the absence of a common political vision as to how migration and
mobility are part of Europe’s present and future.’ UN Special Rapporteur on the
human rights of migrants François Crépeau’
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