Sunday Message for 6th October, 2019
Last Thursday, «Sea Watch»-captain Carola Rackete appeared before the parliament of the European Union, criticising the European Union's asylum policies and the stone cold acceptance of capsizing boats, ships and trawlers full of migrants seeking relief from what they had to go through at home (whether you speak German or English, respective articles about her appearance are linked). Her speech, according to its impact, is comparable to climate activist Greta Thunberg's, although the topic was somewhat different, even though Ms. Rackete mentioned the effects of climate change in relation to the reasons why people flee their homeland onwards to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. Disregarding the reasons, though, her speech highlighted the problems the EU suffers when it comes to dealing with refugees crossing the Sea to seek refuge in Europe–there is no Union in asylum policies, causing a lethal threat to those they are supposed to help.