Press release
of October, 21th 1998
PRO ASYL and the Red-Green Coalition Agreements:
Chance to „start and renewal“ in the asylum policy wasted
„Too timid, too vague, too lean“
PRO ASYL and the Red-Green Coalition Agreements (en)
Menschenrechtsbeauftragter Poppe will „massiv“ auftreten
Der Rot-Grüne Koalitionsvertrag (Auszüge)
Die Grünen stimmten dem Koalitionsvertrag zu (FR 26.10.1998)
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As „too timid, too vague and by the yield for many refugees too lean“, declared Heiko Kauffmann, the spokesman of the Nationwide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL, the results of the Red-Green Coalition Agreements on asylum. Compared with the own requirements of the coalition partners to future-oriented politics, the chance was wasted to „start and renewal“ on the field of asylum policy.
Instead to develop after lost Kohl and Kanther years courage and prospects for a human rights oriented asylum policy, Red-Green has faintheartedly and disheartenedly forgotten the own statements and programme contents and even avoided the mentioning of the concept „asylum“ in the coalition agreement anxiously. „This demonstrates the heavy hereditary load of the Kohl Era; Kanther himself sat at the table; the new government coalition is afraid that one went too far“, Kauffmann commentated.
It has to be learned painfully, that the „breakthrough“ at the new naturalisation law, which will lead fortunately to more integration of many people, has been bought with the exclusion of refugees. After the improvements on citizenship law had been agreed, the Socialdemocrats weren’t ready to essential concessions in the asylum. policy. She followed on Kanther’s footsteps and wanted to continue the defensive policy. It is true that the designated Federal Chancellor Schröder has promised, to make society „inside more humane“. However, asylum seekers might not be excluded of it.
