EU continues to discriminate against non Ukrainian refugees

Monday, 22 May 2023 10:32 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 22 May 2023 10:40 AM ]

Just a couple of weeks ago there were hundreds of refugees, mainly from African and Middle Eastern countries, sleeping on the streets outside the main asylum application center in Brussels. Authorities have since cleared the area.

The refugees have fled to neighboring countries or have been crammed into emergency accommodation.

A few remain in the area but say their situation would be different if they came from Ukraine

The EU's refugee policy goes under the spotlight again in the European Parliament, being branded as illegal under international law and discriminatory.

EU's blatant discrimination against non-Ukrainian refugees continues

The European Parliament debates the EU

Only because we are Afghan, because we come from Syria, because we don't have the same color, because we don't have same culture, but it will be not the reason, of course, a lot of people have the same mind.

I can work, I can do everything.

Asylum Seeker 01

The human cost of US wars post 9/11

The human cost of US wars post 9/11

The US wars in the Middle East and North Africa following the September 11 attacks have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced millions of others.

When you come here from Ukraine, you get everything; accommodation, food, work, everything.

If you are from somewhere else, as a refugee, you do not get anything.

Asylum Seeker 02

Criminal EU refugee policy

Criminal EU refugee policy has led to 441 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean

The International Organization for Migration, a UN body, says more than 20,000 refugees have drowned in the Central Mediterranean since 2014 whilst trying to reach the EU.

Here, look, I cut also myself because we don't feel good in camp. I want to die, you look at my hands. I cut my hands too much, with glass.

I do it too much.

Because, what is it life eat and going to sleep?

Asylum Seeker 03

A debate in the European Parliament has heard that EU nations are erecting borders on land and strengthening aggressive Coast Guard services at sea.

The UN has criticized Rishi Sunak for planning to halt small-boat crossings into the UK, reiterating that stopping a refugee fleeing danger zones from reaching safety is against international law.

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The block pays billions of euros to outside countries to stop refugees from attempting to travel here, unless they are from Ukraine.

The EU slogan is 'break the business model of smugglers' but what we do is feeding them by blocking all pathways to protection.

Tineke Strik, Dutch MEP

There is a heavy far right anti refugee presence in the parliament claiming:

“Europe needs a policy based on strong border control”, but, fortunately, many legislators are calling for a more civilized approach.

We already fund third countries like Libya, actually, militias over there, to build camps, to host people there and we see murder, we see rape, and we do not see a humane solution.

Damian Boeselager, German MEP

New measures at EU borders to block non-Ukrainian refugees

New measures at EU borders to block non-Ukrainian refugees

European Commission President announces new enforcement measures at EU borders to control the movement of asylum seekers.

Key EU figures are currently in Hiroshima, Japan for a G7 meeting. 350,000 people were living there when their closest ally, the United States, dropped its catastrophic atomic bomb in 1945.

More support for Ukraine is high on the agenda. Critics say the last thing on their minds is providing refuge to those fleeing countries they helped destabilize in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.