Schaeuble says Greece has ignored for years rules on asylum seekers
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BERLIN (ANA-MPA/ F. Karaviti) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a German paper that Greece has ignored for years the rules of the Dublin Regulation which oblige migrants to file for asylum in the first country of the European Union they arrive in.
Speaking to Germany’s “Bild am Sonntag” newspaper, Schaeuble noted that his country’s courts have ruled that Germany will not be returned to Greece, as behavior towards refugees and migrants was not humane.
Commenting on the Greek crisis, the minister also said that only structural reforms will improve the country’s economy and that Greeks must not blame others for their problems.
“The Greeks should not put the blame for their problems only on others, they should also see how they can do better themselves,” he said. “It’s certainly not the lack of support in Europe that is missing, but the structural reforms that will make the country competitive,” he added.
More criticism in the way Greece has handled border security was leveled against Greece by Germany’s interior minister for the southern state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, in a separate interview.
“What Greece is doing is a farce,” Herrmann was quoted as saying German weekly newspaper “Welt am Sonntag”, adding that a country that does not fulfill its commitments in securing its external borders should leave the Schengen area.