Der Spiegel: Misleading Juncker report on EU - Turkey on migration

Der Spiegel: Misleading Juncker report on EU - Turkey on migration

Beautified "in order to build the case that the agreement of the European Union with Turkey is already bearing fruit in terms of the number of refugees arriving in Greece, is the data provided by the Summit, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker , according to the magazine «Der Spiegel», which cites sources of the Commission itself.

"The Report with which Jean-Claude Juncker wants to sell the successes of the policy is at best misleading, and Commission officials to consider" made "," refers to publication of the magazine «Der Spiegel».

In the magazine, which will be released Saturday, she noted: "On the one hand the report contains contradictory data on the evolution of the refugee numbers and on the other hand, the figures do not match those of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) . Particularly noticeable is the contradiction on December 14: "On Monday, 5,005 people arrived in the Greek islands," the internal daily report of UNHCR, "this is the largest number of arrivals in a day from November 7". The Commission report, in contrast, records for Greece on the same day 1906 arrivals from Turkey. The Commission stresses that the trend "is consistent with the data of UNHCR, there are very slight differences. '"

The magazine notes that it is the first time that "the solemn declarations of the European Commission President cause tensions" and notes that during the Greek crisis, the head of the office of Martin Selmaier, had characterized via twitter proposals Reform of Athens They had arrived late at night as a "good basis". "This night message not only irritated Wolfgang Schauble, and ministers of other states - members would prefer to have the first form themselves a picture of the motion," continues the report.

"And in the refugee crisis the leadership of the Commission tries to anticipate actual developments. Thus, according to the controversial plot of Jean-Claude Juncker, the numbers of refugees dropped from week 49, a week after the agreement with Turkey, in week 50, from 23 666 in just 9093. Elsewhere, however, stated that already in the first two days of the week 50, arrived in Greece about 11,000 refugees, "he said in the journal. "Forgive me the pun, but the numbers are" tourkopoiimenoi "" (SS uses the German term "getuerkt", ie "tweaked"), states in Spiegel senior European Commission official, adding: "It's pure imagination of large Our stratigiston on the 13th floor, "where are the offices of Z.K. Juncker and M. Selmaier.

"In Brussels he said that employees of Frontex, as a competent general immigration service responsible for refugee policy, complained about this arrangement numbers. The Commission denies. The statistics of the UNHCR but showing other elements. In the daily report of 15 December intended for indoor use, experts note that the daily number of arrivals in Greece during the period of 30.11 - 6.12, after the EU summit - Turkey increased to 3590 people by 36% compared to the last week. The next week was still 3,101 refugees a day, ie more than in the European Commission President graph, "explains the report and stresses that experts warn not to draw political conclusions from these data.

"In fact we see from day to day widely. And nobody can tell reliably if this is related to the weather or Turkey actually do something against traffickers, "said one of them in the magazine. "This acknowledges the Commission's report, however, it has hidden the last page," the report concludes.