Politics.be - Cyprus ligt op ongeveer 250 km van Syrie

Cyprus ligt op ongeveer 250 km van Syrie, en is het dichtsbijzijnde veilige land EN is lid van de EU. Het spreekt voor zich dat Cyprus geen 100-duizenden vluchtelingen kan opvangen en de rol van Griekenland kan overnemen.

Maar waarom willen Syriers e.a. niet naar Cyprus?
Blijkbaar omdat Cyprus de strengste immigratieregelgeving heeft van gans de EU.
Read all about it here:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...is-eu-country/

Citaat:

Why migrants are going to great lengths to avoid this EU country
But according to a dozen refugees and migrants interviewed this summer, Cyprus’ asylum policies are the main reason they shun that country in favor of southern Europe. In Cyprus last year, only 3 percent of asylum-seekers were granted refugee status, which allows them to live and work legally. Fifty-six percent were granted subsidiary protection, a kind of second-tier international protection with fewer rights than refugee status. (The rest were rejected outright. But almost none of the rejections were Syrians; typically they get subsidiary protection.)

Citaat:

Meanwhile, the refugees’ widespread plots to leave Cyprus, as well as their choice to forego government-offered services, have drawn the ire of Cypriot authorities. One government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, likened it to “window shopping.”

“If you are running from persecution, should you get to choose?” the official said. “If someone is running behind you trying to kill you, do you say, ‘I don’t want Cyprus. I want Germany’?”