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Austria in an 'unfriendliness competition', says migration researcher
2016-04-29
[DW] Austria is annoying Germany with its restrictive asylum policies. Whether they have made an EU-wide asylum system impossible is something DW asked migration researcher Heinz Fassmann.
One can only hope.
Italy to start fingerprinting migrants at sea

[AlAhram] Italia is to introduce the fingerprinting of migrants colonists crossing the Mediterranean as soon as they are picked up by rescue boats, officials say.

The move could help to reduce mounting tensions between Italia and its EU partners over the large numbers of migrants colonists who arrive in Italia but are not registered here and then travel on to northern Europe.

If they are not registered in Italia, neighbouring countries like Austria and La Belle France and popular destination states like Germany and Sweden do not have the option of sending them back to Italia.

In theory they should be able to do this under the EU's Dublin convention rules governing asylum claims.

The Italian move follows talks on Wednesday between Interior Minister Angelo Alfano and EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in Sicily, where most migrants colonists arrive and are processed at "hotspot" reception centres.

"With this we will now have hotspots at sea," Alfano said.

It was not clear if the policy will be applied systematically -- migrants colonists picked up at sea are often in a traumatised state and asylum seekers from Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
 notably generally refuse to have their prints taken because they want to make their applications elsewhere.
No prints, no asylum? That would cut numbers considerably.
More than 350,000 people from all over the world have reached Italia on boats from Libya since the start of 2014, as Europe battles its biggest migration crisis since World War II.

Alfano said that after problems in 2014, the process of identifying migrants colonists was now working "100 percent".
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