The requirement: “Emergency brake” in the contract with Turkey – Swedish Dagbladet

the European Commission wants to introduce visa-free travel for Turks to Europe to get through the agreement that will stop the flow of refugees to Europe from Turkey. Germany and France are on the train if they get through a kind of “emergency” for the Turks. Photo: Yorgos Karahalis / AP

BONN. Nearly 80 million Turks which from July 1 will no longer need visas to travel in and out of the Schengen area’s 26 countries is something that not everyone in the EU look kindly.

Berlin and Paris now requires a back door. In a proposal that they put forth on Thursday called the visa to be reinstated if “certain criteria are not met”. This applies, for example, when a sharp rise in crime against the right of residence, writes the news agency AFP who have read the German-French document.

Tourists and businessmen today have the right to reside in EU countries a maximum of 90 days every six months. Should a large number of Turkish traveler to stay longer, the contract with Turkey be put on ice for six months.

Other reasons can be a sharp increase in the number of Turkish asylum seekers or the Turkish authorities’ refusal to receive its nationals who returned from the EU. The situation changes not for the better over the course of six months, visas valid indefinitely.

The background to the German-French proposal is that current rules be regarded as cumbersome and too time consuming. According to an EU directive of 2001 requires that an EU country is in an “emergency” for visa-free to be able to be eliminated.

In practice this means that it will take “at least nine months” before decisions decisions, criticizing Berlin and Paris. In their proposal, the decision could be taken immediately. Moreover, not only affected countries but each member country have the right to demand that visas be reintroduced.

It is unclear how EU Commission looks at the German-French opening lead. However, evidence suggests that the agreement with Ankara will hammer on Wednesday. Turkey has in recent weeks come up the reform momentum and is now said to meet 60 of the 72 requirements that the EU has set. Technical problems that Turkey can not currently issue biometric passports teach according to diplomats hardly trap the agreement.

The most sensitive issues are, however, the Turkish anti-terror laws. Unclear is what protection Kurds or dissidents sent to Turkey can count on as long as these laws are in force. The European Commission is reported to have referred to the law as a “blank check” for the Turkish state and its security apparatus.

Would the EU Commission on Wednesday recommended that the agreement be signed so wait heated debates in the European Parliament and the European Council . Member Countries like Poland, Hungary and Austria fears a stream of Turkish nationals who are entrenched in the EU. Others point to the risk that the door to the EU open wide for Islamists.

European Commission will on Wednesday also put forward a proposal to extend the temporary border controls in the Schengen area which expire over the course of the coming weeks. The Commission thus reacts to demands from Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, Belgium and Denmark who want an extension for a further six months.