IS EUROPE FAILING?

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Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with GESINE SCHWAN
IS EUROPE FAILING?

The fiasco in Afghanistan makes it clear once again: Europe's refugee policy is uncoordinated. Some member states, such as Austria, even wanted to deport rejected asylum seekers from Austria back to Afghanistan in the days when Kabul fell to the Taliban, instead of offering asylum to particularly vulnerable Afghan women.
The German social democrat Gesine Schwan, twice nominated as a candidate for the office of Federal President, calls for a bolder immigration policy in her pamphlet “Europe Fails”, written with Malisa Zobel, and shows what needs to be done. She offers concrete proposals for a refugee policy at European level.

Gesine Schwan, born in Berlin in 1943, comes from a socially committed family that belonged to Protestant and socialist resistance circles during National Socialism. She joined the SPD in 1972 under the influence of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. In 2004, the Professor of Political Science was honoured with the Marion Döhnhoff Prize for International Understanding and Reconciliation. In 2004 and 2008, the SPD nominated Gesine Schwan for the office of Federal President.

Tessa Szyszkowitz, London-based journalist for profil, world columnist for Falter, author (“Echte Engländer. Britannien und der Brexit”).