HS interview|Italy agreed with Albania to outsource the asylum search. In an interview with HS, Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, tells what he thinks about the solution.
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Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, criticized Europe’s reluctance to help migrants in their countries of origin or transit.
Grandi considers the British Rwanda model invalid and against international law.
However, the agreement between Italy and Albania on the processing of asylum seekers arouses cautious optimism in Grand.
Grandi emphasizes that Europe should take a bigger role in conflict resolution if the number of migrants is to be curbed.
of the UN director of the refugee organization UNHCR Filippo Grandi seems a little frustrated.
“I’m a proud European, so I hate to say it, but Europe isn’t exactly a peacemaker,” says Grandi.
The outbreak is related to Chad. Or, more precisely, to the reluctance of European leaders to help Chad.
That reluctance also affects refugees heading to Europe. The same ones that many EU countries would like to keep out of their borders.
HS met Grandi, who visited Finland in September. In the interview, he talked about how to reduce the number of refugees in Europe and how the controversial asylum solution between Italy and Albania arouses cautious optimism in him.
Idea the outsourcing of asylum seeking outside the EU was discussed in Finland during the early summer EU elections. Made at the end of May the survey according to 40 percent of Finns would be in favor of the arrangement.
Thanks to the previous Conservative government in Britain, the outsourcing of asylum applications is spoken often Rwanda as a model.
The idea was that those arriving across the English Channel would be flown to Rwanda to seek asylum. In practice, however, no one had time to be sent on the trip before the country changed power. First Labor your pit the plan.
According to Grand, the Rwanda model was invalid and completely against international law.
Even if people in Rwanda had been found to be entitled to refugee status, they would not have been allowed to return to Britain.
According to Grand, this would have meant in practice that all the responsibilities defined in international agreements would have been transferred to another country through a political decision in London. That wouldn’t be legal.
However, there are other proposals on the table related to outsourcing the asylum search.
Among them, Grandi finds the exchange between Italy’s far-right government and Albania last year particularly interesting born agreement.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s migration plan has also attracted interest in Britain, where the conservative government’s Rwanda model was rejected when the government changed hands.
The contract within the framework, Italy has built two reception centers in Albania, where people caught in the Mediterranean are supposed to wait for a decision on asylum. It is not intended to take women, children or the vulnerable to Albania, but only adult men from safe countries of origin.
Italy is responsible for running the centers. The price tag for the project is around 670 million euros over five years.
Although the plan has been criticized (for example, human rights organization by Human Rights Watch according to him it’s an “expensive and cruel farce”) Grandi is cautiously optimistic about it.
According to him, the essential difference compared to the British plan for Rwanda is what happens when a positive decision is reached.
If a person is defined as a refugee, he is allowed to continue his journey to Italy.
This means that Italy does not shirk the responsibilities of international agreements, as Britain would have done.
“We don’t know enough about this system to say whether it’s good or bad, but I think it’s worth looking at,” says Grandi.
Jahka reception centers open their doors, UNHCR is committed to monitoring their operation for three months. Grandi says Italy asked the organization itself for help.
It shows an openness to consider new ways to manage the refugee situation, which is valued at UNHCR. At the same time, however, the organization considers it important that the possibility of applying for asylum at the borders remains.
Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, states that he is a proud European, even though Europe is doing enough to build peace in the migrants’ countries of origin.
Grand understand that the refugee situation in Europe is difficult. Seeking asylum is one of the biggest political contentious issues, and the debate surrounding the topic involves a lot of intimidation and manipulation, according to Grand.
Still, he reminds us that, on a world scale, the number of refugees Europe receives is modest.
“Europe is not the part of the world where the most refugees arrive. Poor countries accept more refugees every day,” Grandi points out.
This leads to the Chad mentioned at the beginning of the story.
UNHCR by 1.4 million people arrived in Chad, which has a population of 17 million, last year. The reason is especially the civil war in the neighboring country Sudan, which has been going on for the second year, where estimates the death toll ranges between 15,000 and 150,000.
In comparison to the whole of Europe was left last year, 1.1 million asylum applications.
According to Grandi, if the number of refugees heading to Europe were really to be curbed, measures should be taken in the countries of origin and transit. Otherwise, they will continue forward and towards Europe.
Grandi continues with the example of Chad.
The more than one million Sudanese there do not want to leave their homeland any further than this. They want to wait for the end of the war and then return to their home.
“We said to European countries, could we do more to help them in Chad? [–] We got very little support. So I told them that some of these people are leaving because they don’t have enough there,” says Grandi.
“They asked if I was trying to intimidate or blackmail. I said no, I’m just telling the truth.”
A group of people tried to cross the English Channel in a rubber boat at the beginning of September. This year alone, almost 50 people have died on the route.
Grand according to which a lot could be done to improve the situation.
First, Europe should take a bigger role in conflict resolution in the countries from which people leave. To be a better peacemaker, as Grandi longed for at the beginning of this interview.
Secondly, we should help the countries where the refugees heading to Europe at some point end up first: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Chad. More should also be done in transit countries.
“And not by giving money only for new fences, but for working with people, helping them,” Grandi emphasizes.
The list of suggestions for improvement just goes on.
People should be saved from the sea. Those who received a negative decision should be returned to their home country more effectively, and those who received a positive decision should be helped to integrate better.
“I wish I could give you one answer,” says Grandi when asked about solutions.
“But I’m sorry, I can’t do that. I have to give seven or eight answers about things that should be done.”
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