October 28th the German Constitutional Court had a hearing, if the lack of

legal remedy against a decision of German authorities according the Dublin II

Treaty is according the German law and the fundamental right to asylum.
There is expected a fundamental decision by the highest German court
concerning legal remedy against the transfer of asylum seekers to the European
country of entrance.

Beginning of the week Commissioner Malmström announced the mission of “Rapid

Border Intervention Teams” by Frontex to the Greek-Turkish border.
The vast of the majority of approximately 32.000 migrants who arrived in the
last four months at the Greek border are people in need of shelter. The last
gap of fortress Europe shall get closed.

The former extremely dangerous routes to South-Europe for refugees from Iraq,
Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea via North of Africa and the Mediterranean Sea
have been stopped by bi-national and European treaties with Libya.

32,000 refugees is quite hard for a small country like Greece, which hasn´t
implemented any procedural asylum structures, but is not too difficult to cope
with for the European Union with member states like Germany, which was
absolutely capable to examine hundred thousands of asylum applications per
year not too long ago.

In the last months European Court of Human Rights decided in many cases to
stop transfers to Greece. Norway, Denmark, Island, Belgium, The Netherlands
and the United Kingdom don´t transfer their asylum seekers to Greece anymore.
Germany instead insists on transfers to Greece according the Dublin
Regulations except for especially vulnerable groups like separated children,
victims of torture.

The German home office minister, <http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/--

/de/Boersenlexikon/10482600> De Maizière explained in front of the High Court
that Greece had in fact difficulties to cope with the asylum procedure, but
measures for support were already on the way “Greece needs help, Greece gets
help.” In his opinion this issue is supposed to be a political question not a
constitutional / juridical and even less a humanitarian!! Greece is a safe
third country for Germany…

The decision of the court is expected not before end of January 2011…

AWO urged in a press release to share European responsibility and to prove

European solidarity in the field of Asylum and to suspend all transfers to
Greece under the Dublin procedure!