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33 EU cities sign safe harbor alliance for fair migration policy

by German Press Agency - DPA

Potsdam Jun 26, 2021 - 7:19 pm GMT+3
A member of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) helps a migrant off a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, June 12, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
A member of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) helps a migrant off a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, June 12, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
by German Press Agency - DPA Jun 26, 2021 7:19 pm

More than 30 European cities signed a declaration founding the "Safe Harbour Cities Alliance" in the Italian city of Palermo, the cosigning German city of Potsdam announced Friday

"Cities that are willing to take in more people should be allowed to do so voluntarily," said Potsdam's Mayor Mike Schubert.

"With the new network, we want to provide speedy relief for the cities along the Mediterranean," said the Social Democrat politician.

In addition to Potsdam and Palermo, Amsterdam, Munich, Leipzig, Barcelona and Villeurbanne – among others – signed the declaration in the Italian port city as part of the From the Sea to the City conference.

"As European cities and municipalities that firmly believe in the defense of human rights, we have been offering refugees and migrants a new home for decades. We are unconditionally committed to humanitarian values, universal human rights and the right to asylum, even in difficult times," the statement reads.

The cities call for the right to asylum to be upheld in every European state, for quotas for the voluntary acceptance of refugees in the municipalities and for direct funding by the European Union to the municipalities for taking in migrants.

In addition, they want legal immigration channels for a pragmatic immigration policy and a fair distribution of burdens between EU states. The demands are directed at the national governments.

The international alliance joins the already existing German alliance Safer Cities, in which around 100 cities, municipalities and districts declared that they would take in refugees rescued from distress at sea or stranded in overcrowded refugee camps.

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