Economically disappointed Balkan citizens go to Germany
17/08/2015 00:00
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Half of asylum seekers going to Germany come from Balkan, a region
without conflicts or tortures. Croatia and Slovenia are EU members and
the other countries have been following an accession perspective, and
there is no room to compare them with Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan where
people die of war and terror.
Journalist Verica Spasovksa from Deutsche Welle says that the economic situation and the disappointment from politics is what drives people to leave these countries. She says that the billion EUR aids have not brought development or democratization, and the EU perspective is not enough to push politicians for reforms, since they keep taking EU fonds and don’t have to hand over competences to Brussels.
She says that more than 60% of Bosnian youth is unemployed, despite being well educated, and hampered by corruption and nepotism. The political parties have a dangerous expansion in the society and the slow transition to democracy has certainly created discontent in the EU, whose attention is now on other sources of crises, such as Greece and Ukraine.
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