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Geflüchtete beim Versuch die griechisch-nordmazedonische Grenze auf der Balkanroute zu überqueren.
Geflüchtete beim Versuch die griechisch-nordmazedonische Grenze auf der Balkanroute zu überqueren.IMAGO / NurPhoto

Thirty Years of Struggle for a Humane Asylum Policy

Cornelia Ernst
Europe: ruin or renewal
MEP Cornelia Ernst looks back on her time fighting for refugee rights in Europe During the summer slump, and 30 years after the right of asylum was restricted in the German constitution, Thorsten Frei, an MP for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), could think of nothing better than suggesting that this fundamental human right be struck from Germany’s Basic Law altogether. Get rid of the right to asylum, replace it with a quota solution (with absolutely no basis in either human rights or constitutional law), he suggested. Eliminating ...
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