{"id":1374,"date":"2014-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/06-08-2014-debate-on-the-status-of-safe-countries-of-origin\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:25:16","slug":"06-08-2014-debate-on-the-status-of-safe-countries-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/06-08-2014-debate-on-the-status-of-safe-countries-of-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"06.08.2014 Debate on the status of safe countries of origin"},"content":{"rendered":"

R\u00fcssmann (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the ongoing debate about the status of safe countries of origin, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerbia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are scheduled to receive from Germany. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe draft law on the three Eastern European countries is currently being \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscussed in parliament. Because the representatives of the green party have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tturned against this attempt in all provinces until now, it is still pending. If \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonly one green governed state agrees, the law can be adopted. Councils of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trefugees and asylum forums are decidedly opposing this attempt and they are reminding \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgreen party members of parliaments of the need for their steadfastness. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdebate is fuelled by a recent decision of the Macedonian constitutional court: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe court has ruled that the passport act, which allows the withdrawal of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnationality when a Macedonian is deported due to a negative asylum application, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis unlawful to Macedonia’s constitution and to the human rights. Added to this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare questionable practices at the border, where potential asylum seekers are prevented \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom leaving: \u201cMacedonia has, like \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerbia, tightened its exit permits more and more. This was done under pressure \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom the EU to obtain the visa waiver. Therefore, since 2010, Macedonian border \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tguards may prevent people from leaving when they harm international relations \u2013 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas plain text: if a person wants to seek asylum in the EU. As a result, over \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t10,000 people, particularly Roma, have been denied exit by mid-2013, according \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto a pro-asylum reports, with reference to the human rights commissioner of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcouncil of Europe and the U.S. state department.\u201d <\/em>To deny a citizen to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tleave his country contradicts international law. However, the German federal \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toffice for migration sees this differently and states that the right to leave is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot a \u201cbasic human right\u201d. As we already stated several times, there is also \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe problem that with the status of a safe country of origin, official \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tassessments of the security situation of minorities in a given country are put \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tabove the real life experiences of individuals. Officially, a country can \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trespect the security and rights of minorities. However, this does not mean at \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tall that this really happens in everyday life, as shocking individual destinies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treveal.<\/p>\n