Europe in the grip of fires and heat. What came out of the tripartite in Tehran. Refugee charter flights all inclusive in the pages of the German press.
Fires, fiery days, tropical nights. The German press captures indescribable images of a summer in Europe in a state of emergency due to extreme climate conditions. “Warning signals” is the title of the columnist’s comment in the paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Much has been said about the relationship between weather and climate,” he points out. “However, climate researchers agree that the available evidence clearly shows that the occurrence of heatwaves in western Europe has intensified and will continue to intensify. It has been described in numerous studies. Air and sea currents play an important role and their behavior changes due to climate change. This in turn amplifies the effect of rising temperatures. Europe is therefore a heat wave hotspot and is affected much more severely than other northern regions, as climate researchers point out”.
“For swimming instead of jogging”
But what does this mean for the human factor, for politics? “Preventing a climate catastrophe by limiting global warming is a herculean task for politicians, but also for citizens, whose lifestyles will have to change,” observes Badische Zeitung. “The other task is called adaptation. It means learning to cope with heat, drought but also heavy rains and fires. There are many issues. Spatial and urban planning should give more importance to greenery, shading and water management. reserves. State and economy should create better conditions for the world of work and health protection. And for everyone, to keep calm and in the heat to go swimming instead of jogging. And of course lots of fluids. We the Minister of Health recently reminded via Twitter. What would we do without the Minister of Health” the columnist notes ironically due to the criticism the minister has received for the management of the pandemic.
“Does the earth want to get rid of us?” she wonders Frankfurter Rundschau. “The situation is difficult. But because of the global heat wave, forest fires and floods, such a feeling can overwhelm us. This is how Climate Commissioner Frans Timmermans faced them while participating in the Petersburg Climate Dialogue (SS ended yesterday in Berlin). Many of the attendees, members of delegations from developing countries, have long known how dramatic the situation is on the climate front. Compared to the crises caused by global warming in Africa, for example, our problems are minor details. And since the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has historically been primarily the responsibility of industrialized countries, it is clear that the latter must pay for adaptation assistance.”
“Erdogan is a sought-after interlocutor”
“War Council on Iran”, “An Anti-Western Alliance in Tehran”, “Gas Deal with Moscow” are some headlines from today’s press about yesterday’s tripartite summit of Turkey, Russia and Iran in Tehran. But what happened? “Open disputes” as a related article on the website states Tagesschau of the first public channel of German television. “Many in the West would say the bad guys were together in Tehran. The Russian president who attacked Ukraine, his Iranian counterpart Raishi and Ayatollah Khamenei, whose country is said to be building a nuclear bomb, and troubled NATO partner Erdogan. But it was already clear since yesterday morning that there is no perfect harmony between them … the Turkish president wants a welcome for his attack in northern Syria. But according to Khamenei’s website such an operation would be detrimental to Syria, the Turkey and the region. But Erdogan appeared unimpressed, saying later that he expects his partners to sincerely support Turkish efforts to ensure stability in Syria.”
“Summit meeting of opportunists” reads a related article Spiegel on his website highlighting the special position of Turkey, a NATO country, which gives weapons to Ukraine, but at the same time maintains relations with Russia. “For years the Turkish president was an outsider in world politics” it is pointed out. “He turned the EU against him by provoking Germany and Greece and suppressing the Turkish opposition … but since Russia invaded Ukraine he has suddenly become a sought-after partner as an interlocutor. Turkey is one of the few countries he can bring to the negotiating table representatives of Russia and Ukraine. In the event that peace negotiations between the two countries ever materialize, this ability may prove to be important. Erdogan knows this and sells it dearly. He has been given major concessions by the West to renounce his veto against the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO”.
Excursions all inclusive
An interesting aspect of the deportations is approached by the left-wing newspaper taz of Berlin. These are profits recorded by airlines by deporting refugees. “Operation Deportation Airlines”, is the title of the article, a lucrative business, according to the data released by the activists of the working group “Anti-Deportation Alert” through the network “No Border Assembly”. We read: ” 206 charter airlines have been commissioned by the German government in 2021 to deport almost 5,500 people,” writes the columnist. “In first place is Wamos Air, a Spanish charter airline with sales (tickets) of more than 3.5 million euros in 2021 for deportation flights from Germany. Three German airlines also benefited. FAI, a charter airline with based in Nuremberg, has received more than €1 million for flights to Somalia, Sudan and Russia, among others. Sundair has earned more than €300,000 for flights to Lebanon and Russia. German Airways has earned more than €200,000 by 12 deportation flights”. As the columnist points out, by publishing the data on the airlines, the activists of the “No Border Assembly” want to expose the deportation operations of migrants. Invoking the constitutionally guaranteed right to confidentiality, the government classified the names of the airlines.”
However, the German tourist group DER also made deportation trips. Most people know him mostly for “all paid” tourist trips, but that’s not all he did. Until 2019, he carried out deportations on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior, with which he had signed a framework agreement. “Simply put, the German government made reservations for deportation packages through the travel agency. Instead of tourists, the charter flights were filled with refugees, whose asylum applications have been rejected. Instead of Crete, the destination was crisis areas. Within three years, DER sold more than 40,000 such deportation tickets to the government.”
Irini Anastasopoulou
SOURCE: Deutsche Welle
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