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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (right) and his counterpart from Croatia, Gordan Grlic Radman (left) pose in front of the Brandeburg Gate with a relay baton to 'handover' the EU presidency in Berlin
THE GERMAN government must use the next six months as president of the Council of the European Union to adopt a human rights-based approach to migration, civil refugee rescue organisations demanded today.
Leadership of the Council of the European Union, the legislative body where member-states meet to discuss and amend laws, rotated from Croatia to Germany today.
The new EU Council presidency was greeted this morning with two separate lists of demands regarding the bloc’s treatment of refugees by Sea Watch and Mare Liberum, two German refugee organisations that operate in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas respectively.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
