Albanian migrants return home after asylum applications are rejected by Germany
Tirana International airport is the first sight of home for many Albanians. But it is not a happy reunion for all. Thousands of individuals and families have landed at the airport to the realisation their dream of a new life has been shattered.
They have been sent back from Germany after failing to have their application for asylum accepted. Rejection is the common theme etched in their faces.
“We went to Germany to work and not to beg for money or social benefits. We went to a refugee camp. It was not right and it was not just the way they told us about a positive or negative decision. The just took us out of the camp and put us on a plane to send us back to Albania,” explained one man who had his application rejected.
Berlin has declared Albania is not part of the list of problematic countries and as such Albanians do not benefit from asylum. Official figures show around 98 percent of applications for asylum in 2014 were rejected.
http://www.euronews.com/2015/10/08/albanian-migrants-return-home-after-asylum-applications-are-rejected-by-germany/
It was inevitable that Germany would find that many of the 'refugees', particularly those who are not from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, would be returned as 'economic migrants' rather than genuine refugees. It will be interesting to see the numbers that are allowed to stay and those that are deported.
