“Those who created the crisis in Ukraine have essentially contributed to forging an absolute union of the western world against this phenomenon. Europe is a force for good. We will work for peace. But if things go wrong, Europe can also be a very tough deterrent with sanctions you have never seen before, with alternative, energy solutions that will allow us to be self-sufficient and not take risks in Energy and with “very important possibilities for intervention, so that the situation stabilizes,” he said Cyprus the Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schoinas.
After the completion of his visit with the Minister of Interior of Cyprus N. Nouri in the area of ​​Athienou of the Green Line, which is a crossing point for illegal immigrants, Mr. Schoinas referred to the crisis in Ukraine, but also the immigration, making special reference to Turkey’s role in this.
“I do not like to be a fortune teller, but I believe that the way things are unfolding shows that the game for peace is not lost yet”, Mr. Schoinas pointed out, emphasizing that during his participation in Security Conference held in Munich, found an extremely high level of Western sympathy for the situation in Ukraine.
THE vice president of Commission He stated that with regard to Cyprus and the issue of illegal immigration that it faces, there is a difference that the problem is addressed from a distance in relation to the presence of living. “From the moment I took office in December 2019, I was convinced that no one could manage the EU’s immigration policy if he was not in the field. If it is not found where the problem is. Next to the people who manage it and the local communities. I was in Evros, on Shrove Monday 2020, I was -hours later- in the fire in Moria in Lesvos, I went with the Pope again, I was in Lithuania, but what I see today here, in the Green Line, shocks me. “The perception of the problem from a distance is completely different from what I see here now,” he said.
Asked about her attitude Turkey on this issue, stated that “Turkey, like all our neighbors, should realize that in terms of immigrant they have a lot to gain if they work together with Europe, rather than if they work against Europe. This lesson was given in the best way to Evros on Shrove Monday 2020. And Evros helped a lot for messaging. Erga omnes, not only in Turkey. When I had to go to Constantinople and Ankara, to the crisis in Belarus, I realized that there was a will to cooperate. “I want to believe that here too we will find a corresponding response”, he noted characteristically.
Referring to the causes of the issues of irregular immigration, the need to manage them with a generous Community funding for the Republic of Cyprus, as well as the required moves on returns, Mr. Schoinas said that Immigration in Cyprus creates a big problem not only for the Republic of Cyprus, but also for Europe. “We are not standing here on an external border of the Union, we are here in Europe,” he said.
He pointed out that his presence is not a symbolic presence, emphasizing that it is an occasion for action. “We have to stop working as firefighters and run from crisis to crisis. It is time to work as architects of a new holistic, coherent European framework for managing Immigration and Asylum“, He stated, reiterating that Cyprus is not alone in terms of operations.
As far as the end is concerned Memorandum of cooperation to be signed tomorrow at the Presidential Palace, stressed that the EU is mobilizing every available action, resources, or service at European level, with a new beginning in the operational management of the immigration problem for Cyprus.
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