Controversial left-right adjustments due to EU asylum pact
Published: Friday, Nov 15th 2024, 10:40
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Due to the EU's asylum and migration pact, Switzerland must amend five laws in connection with the Schengen/Dublin agreements. The SVP is fundamentally opposed. The FDP and the Center Party support the revision. The left-green party is calling for humanitarian improvements.
The SVP rejects the amendments to the five laws on the further development of the Schengen/Dublin area. In particular, it categorically opposes any participation in the solidarity measures in the EU asylum and migration pact. These are not part of the Schengen/Dublin mechanisms and are therefore not binding.
The party also rejects a series of purely bureaucratic and expensive adjustments. It is calling for a lean implementation of the federal decisions with a sense of proportion, as it announced at the end of the consultation period on Thursday.
FDP and center for voluntary participation
The FDP welcomes the EU's new measures, some of which Switzerland is following. It is particularly pleased with the rapid implementation of asylum procedures and returns at the Schengen external borders. Switzerland benefits from the Schengen/Dublin agreements.
It should actively participate in migration management and the prevention of secondary migration. The federal government must swiftly examine voluntary participation in these measures. The national government must ensure that asylum seekers in Switzerland are not treated better than those at the EU's external borders.
The center is in favour of an efficient and functional European migration and asylum policy. The coordinated approach within the Schengen/Dublin states is in Switzerland's interest. The current difficulties with Dublin transfers to the state with the first asylum application should be reduced. In principle, it is in favor of the solidarity mechanism in favor of heavily burdened states.
The Green Liberals consider the EU pact to be a step forward and welcome the amendments. The EU has included a number of elements in its pact that Switzerland has applied since the reform of the Asylum Act.
Left demands improvements
The SP supports the bill, but in the interests of protecting personal privacy is calling for an examination of the data that Switzerland feeds into the EU's visa information system. It supports a common European security and migration policy and thus Switzerland's participation in the Schengen and Dublin agreements.
For the Greens, the EU asylum and migration pact does not solve any problems, but creates new ones. They share the extensive criticism of the Greens in the European Parliament. At Swiss level, they are making approval of the amended federal resolutions dependent on specific demands.
This includes, for example, a residence permit instead of the current tolerated status and the right to family reunification. As a beneficiary of the system, Switzerland must commit to accepting asylum seekers in the solidarity mechanism of the EU pact.
The EU pact dismantles refugee protection and cements isolation, writes Swiss Refugee Council. Switzerland must use its leeway when implementing the pact. In particular, the organization is calling for binding participation in the solidarity mechanism.
Question mark over human rights
It shares the Federal Council's desire for a functioning, crisis-resistant and fair European migration and asylum system, writes the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). However, the standardized procedures at the EU's external borders are a departure from the Geneva Refugee Convention. The SGB criticizes the doubled transfer period for an asylum procedure to another Dublin state as inhumane.
The Alliance for Independent Legal Work in the Field of Asylum rejects the EU pact in its entirety due to its tightening as an undermining of the right to asylum and questionable in terms of human rights. Through the amendments, Switzerland is indirectly participating in procedures at the EU's external borders that are problematic in terms of human rights, without taking responsibility.
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