Hej,
idag besöker Tobias Billström Helsingfors för att diskutera migrationsfrågor. Det vore ett utmärkt tillfälle för ministern att ta intryck av det beslut som Finland precis har fattat - att stoppa alla avvisningar till Grekland enligt Dublinförordningen (se citerad text nedan).
Vänsterpartiet har länge drivit frågan om att stoppa alla avvisningar till Grekland eftersom man där inte är garanterad en rättssäker prövning och riskerar att sändas tillbaka till förföljelse i tredje land. Så har tidigare såväl Norge som Tyskland gjort.
Finland halts migrant transfer to Greece after UN criticismFinland has suspended sending migrants back to Greece following the UN refugee agency's sharp criticism of conditions faced by asylum seekers in the Mediterranean country.
Finnish immigration minister Astrid Thors on Friday (18 April) announced that only if they receive written guarantees that migrants will be fairly processed, will they return migrants to Greece.
Last week, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees recommended that European states halt the sending of refugees to Greece, complaining that procedural norms and conditions were not being met.
"[Refugees] often lack the most basic entitlements, such as interpreters and legal aid, to ensure that their claims receive adequate scrutiny from the asylum authorities," the UN agency said in a statement.
As a matter of course, Greece arrests all migrants missing the appropriate documentation and detains them for three months.
According to EU rules in place since 2003 – the so-called Dublin II Regulation - the first EU member state that a migrant enters should be the one to examine his or her asylum application, meaning that other member states regularly send asylum claimants back to Greece, as the country is often the first EU country a migrant steps foot in.
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However, the Finnish move is not the first time a European country has halted sending refugees to Greece. In February, Norway - which together with Iceland is a signatory to the Dublin agreements without being part of the EU - suspended all such transfers, and Germany shortly followed by ending the return of unaccompanied minors to the country."