What you must know is that you seek asylum in EU countries

But what are the rules to be respected by all, not only in Germany but throughout the European Union? They are the European Union's directives to asylum policy. How specific countries apply these directives, how they interpret them, and how they turn them into national laws is the right of each country. Thus, at some points there are major differences among European Union countries, writes Detusche Welle.

Dublin Rule

Refugees who want to seek asylum in Germany cannot do so in any kind of country. Since 2003, they have been forced to respect Dublin's rule. This rule says refugees seeking asylum in an EU country should do so in the first country to step within the EU.

Member states do not adhere very much to this rule. With the so-called <x0 use-only”, they can make the decision if they want to take over someone's asylum process, even if the person has entered another EU country. Germany, for example, has given up refugee surrender in other countries. In the summer of 2017, for example, Germany no longer sent refugees back to Hungary. Reason, lack of legal security. The EU Commission accused Hungary of making it difficult for refugees to access asylum processes, in accordance with EU laws.

Other reasons to give up the Dublin Rule may also be doubts in the social standards of other EU countries. Thus, Germany no longer returned refugees to Italy because they were not well - arranged there.

Migrant Division

Despite the exceptions made, the Dublin Rule makes member states located at the EU's external borders have to deal with high numbers of refugees. Efforts have long been made to set a quota of refugee distribution in order to relieve the heavy burden of countries like Italy and Greece. In cases of crisis, states must accept a certain number of refugees, which are deployed according to the number of its population.

Such an arrangement has so far failed because of opposition from some countries. Poland, Hungary, Chechya and Slovakia refuse to take refugees under obligation, which “are assigned to receive. In 2017, the European Union attempted to resell 160 thousand refugees in Greece and Italy through a “Relocation Program. But only 26 thousand were actually accepted in other EU countries.

Border controls in Schengen area

The Schengen zone is not the same as the EU area. Not all countries are members of the Schengen area, such as Bulgaria and Romania. Meanwhile, some countries that are not EU member states, but are members of the Schengen area, such as Iceland and Norway. Within the Schengen area, people can move free. But this rule is not always valid.

Under the refugee crisis in 2015, Germany introduced border control into the Schengen area to prevent large numbers of refugees from entering Germany without ever checking for documents. Controls are only allowed in emergency situations and for the short term, but Germany added more and more this deadline, recently in November 2017. Meanwhile, the German government argues border control with the risk of public security and the risk of terror.

Refugee Services

In the matter of dealing with refugees waiting for answers to asylum demand, the crucial thing is how EU member states interpret the laws. Some aspects are strictly defined, such as the introduction to the job market and asylum seekers is allowed after only nine months.

Other arrangements have no strict formulas. Under international refugee rights, there must be conditions of accession in accordance with human rights. What those conditions should be like, the countries decide for themselves. Therefore, in the way refugees are cared for, standards of different EU countries are very different.

So for example, in some lands there are camps overloaded with refugees, buildings without sanitation, or even in some places, tents for refugees are not rare. Such situations have led Germany to give up Dublin's rule and not to return refugees to these countries.