The FPÖ top candidate relies on deportation plans in the ORF “press hour”.
Vienna. The liberal EU leading candidate Harald Vilimsky spoke out on Sunday in favor of getting illegal immigrants out of the country based on the British Rwanda model. “This is remigration,” said Vilimsky, who again campaigned for his own EU commissioner for remigration and the dismantling of the EU. Even if someone gets asylum, it is only temporary protection, he emphasized. Family reunification should therefore only take place in the country of origin.
The long-time EU parliamentarian did not see any legal restrictions on his deportation plans. “Where there is a will, there is a way,” he also referred to the establishment of Italian refugee camps in Albania, from where people taken on board by the Italian authorities on the high seas are to be quickly repatriated if they receive a negative asylum decision.
Given the tense situation in Europe, where there are neither jobs nor infrastructure for these people, no one from outside is allowed to enter the continent. Instead, if necessary, there should be protection and help outside Europe. Asylum procedures should be awaited outside Europe; he called agreements such as the one between Great Britain and Rwanda a role model. Finding partner states with appropriate financial compensation could not be a problem for the EU.
By the way, Vilimsky doesn’t think it’s necessary to have its own EU commissioner for Austria: the country wouldn’t miss anything and the large number of commissioners fuels over-regulation in the EU because everyone wants to show that they’re working anyway. (APA)
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