Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.
@maswaba@thomasfuchs considering the story of Israel of smearing anyone who is critical of them, you may want to check those sources before spreading. I'd find that hard to believe of anyone holding his position anywhere in the UK.
@maswaba@thomasfuchs das ist so beleidigend uninformiert und ignorant. Egal welches Thema, irgendein arroganter deutscher kommt mit seiner drei minuten google recherche um die ecke und meint, die welt erklären zu müssen.
Yes! I completely agree and should have added: how is that even possible - or rather, given that this is based on a unilateral, political decision by Germany, it shouldn’t be possible - that shouldn’t apply to the whole of the EU. Deeply wrong.
@herrmannpierre
The mechanism is called Schengen Information System (SIS) and any Schengen member can issue bans that all apply Schengen-wide (not EU-wide, as not all EU member states take part in the Schengen area and some Schengen participants aren’t EU members, it’s complicated).
I’d be really curious to see the justification for that entry though. Since Abu Sittah went to Den Haag in Jan 2024, this entry must be very recent. As of now, the incident does not seem to make any waves in German media. It’s mainly a UK/France issue at the moment.
Do you also know, which part of the german government or public administration is in charge of such decisions? Guess something like department of foreign affairs?
It originates from the ban Germany issued when he was travelling to Germany for the Palestine congress in April. The same entry ban was put on Varoufakis then. It is the fact that this turns out to have Schengen wide effect that people are angry/aatonished about; maybe it is just a function of how Schengen works, but it does raise questions about Schengen working for arbitrary, initially unilateral bans.
I understand Varoufakis can’t be banned from Schengen as a Greek citizen. But he and Abu Sitta were banned from Germany under the same “Einreiseverbot”. I am puzzled how exactly this German entry ban applies Schengen wide for Abu Sitta. I understand AS is not an EU citizen; it may indeed just be that, but it is still noteworthy that a unilateral, political German decision can apply EU wide.
@denis@thomasfuchs you need to research in German. Kim Robin Stoller collected a lot of I remember correctly. For a rough thing you’ll find some traces in newspapers.
@thomasfuchs He was not banned from entering EU "because he was to speak at the French senate", but because of a congress in Germany last month. But does it mean he was not aware of this ban, meaning he was not informed of it ? Kind of weird.
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