PRO ASYL Press Release
15. January 2003
The European fingerprint system EURODAC applied as of today
PRO ASYL: Continuation of the „European protection lottery“
Mr. Schily wants possibilities for police operations
- Das europäische Fingerabdrucksystem EURODAC kommt ab heute zur Anwendung PRO ASYL: Fortsetzung der „Europäischen Schutzlotterie“
Schily will Zugriffsmöglichkeit der Polizeien - Deutsche Welle vom 16. Januar 2023
- The European fingerprint system EURODAC applied as of today
PRO ASYL: Continuation of the „European protection lottery“
Mr. Schily wants possibilities for police operations
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As of today the fourteen EU member states transmit the fingerprints of asylum seekers and people without resident status to an electronic system with the name EURODAC. The fingerprint system shall make more effective the determination, which member state is responsible for an asylum procedure in future. Home Minister Mr. Schily celebrates this as a success in the „fight against the asylum abuse“.
From the view of PRO ASYL this day continues an inappropriate European asylum policy. „As long as there doesn*t exist any European agreement regulating, who is to be seen as a refugee in accordance with the Geneva Refugee Convention or are no really fair asylum procedures, technocratic agreements on responsibility continue the ‚European protection lottery'“, so Mr. Karl Kopp, Europe expert of PRO ASYL. Despite all harmonization endeavors there exist grave differences regarding the recognition practice in the EU up to this day.
Public security politicians like Otto Schily, which cheer EURODAC, are contributing substantially to the fact, that key elements of an European asylum system couldn’t be agreed on up to now yet.
By this responsibility agreement the reception of refugees will concentrate in future on the southern EU member and candidate countries. Responsible for the asylum procedure will be substantially the state, who „has caused the entry“. This leads to the consequence, that these states are getting rid from the reception of refugees by excessive bordering armings and rejections to the neighboring not EU countries in turn. So all these measures don’t aim to prevent the so-called „asylum abuse“ – as the home minister pretends -, but the claim on the right of political asylum itself.
