{"id":333,"date":"2021-10-26T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/arguments\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T00:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:47:28","slug":"arguments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/en\/arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-l\"><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"argumente\">Arguments<\/h1>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-l\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"was-ist-frontex\">What is Frontex?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"af-footnote-link\" id=\"correction-1-link\">Frontex is the Border and Coast Guard Agency of the European Union, founded in 2005. Since then, its budget of EUR 6 million has increased by 7000%, and is expected to reach EUR 5.6 billion <a href=\"#correction-1\">(1)<\/a> for the period 2021-2027. In terms of personnel, the Frontex task force is to be increased to its own standing army with 10,000 border and coast guard officers by 2027.<\/p>\n\n<p>The main activities of Frontex are:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Repatriation of \u201cirregular migrants\u201d (including direct or indirect involvement in illegal pushbac<\/li><li>Planning and implementation of deportations throughout the EU<\/li><li>Build-up of local border management agencies and equipping them with important know-how (especially in the area of surveillance via alignment with European standards and systems)<\/li><li>Composition of so-called \u201crisk analyses\u201d, including action recommendations (such as strengthening border controls, expanding Frontex operations or increasing the agency\u2019s resources)<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>To carry out these activities, Frontex is deployed not only directly at the EU&#8217;s external borders as well as within European countries, but also in more and more third countries due to the constantly increasing outsourcing of the EU migration regime. It is actively collaborating with more than 20 countries outside the EU. For instance, Frontex cooperates with the Libyan coast guard, which intercepts migrant boats and forcibly drags them back to Libya, where migrants are detained under massively violent conditions. It actively supports the expansion of air monitoring, while official rescue operations continue to be reduced. Frontex\u2019 activities promote the racist narrative of migration as a threat, and the agency uses its own risk analyses as self-legitimation for even further expansion. Since 1993, <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedagainstrefugeedeaths.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ListofDeathsActual.pdf\">EU\u2019s policy of isolation has cost over 44,000 lives<\/a>, not including the high number of unreported cases.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-m\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"verbindungen-der-frontex-zur-schweiz\">How is Frontex connected to Switzerland?<\/h2>\n\n<p>As a Schengen member, Switzerland has supported Frontex financially and with personnel since 2009. Now, the national council has approved an annual budget of CHF 61 million until 2027. This constitutes 5% of Frontex\u2019 overall budget, which means that Switzerland contributes considerably to the EU\u2019s violent isolationist regime. As a Schengen state, Switzerland can only have a say in this process, but has no voting rights in the planning of new competencies and laws.<\/p>\n\n<p>Switzerland benefits greatly from Europe\u2019s violent defence against migration. As a home to commodity companies, an international banking centre and an arms factory, Switzerland is an important profiteer within the capitalist world system and thus a contributor to many of the causes of refuge. As a home to commodity companies, an international banking centre and an arms factory, Switzerland is an important profiteer within the capitalist world system and thus a contributor to many of the causes of refuge.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-m\"><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"demands\" class=\"wp-block-group af-box-m af-box-m--fill-dark\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"unsere-forderungen\">We demand:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u278a NO to the Switzerland\u2019s support of Frontex with finances and personnel!<br\/>\u278b YES to freedom of movement for all!<br\/>\u278c Abolishing Frontex as a symbol of the isolationist, violent migration policy!<br\/>\u278d Stop the criminalisation of migration to Europe and the associated militarisation of the borders!<br\/>\u278e Enabling safe migration instead of preventing it violently!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-s\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group af-box-m af-box-m--fill-dark\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"af-btn-icon af-btn-icon--download-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Medienmitteilung-NoFrontex-Medienkonferenz-25.2.2022.pdf\">Download German press dossier<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"af-btn-icon af-btn-icon--download-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Communique%CC%81-de-presse-NoFrontex-conference-me%CC%81diatique-25.2.2022.pdf\">Download French press dossier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-m\"><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"correction-1\" class=\"wp-block-group af-footnote\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(1) Corrigendum: An earlier version of this text stated that the total budget was 11 billion. This figure was based on the information available at the time. According to the latest figures, the budget has been adjusted to 5.6 billion. See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/sites\/default\/files\/about_the_european_commission\/eu_budget\/mff_factsheet_agreement_en_web_20.11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">factsheet on the EU budget 2021-2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"#correction-1-link\">Back to the text<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-spacer-l\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group af-faq af-faq--arguments\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-none su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Was ist das Problem an Frontex?<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of providing urgently needed safe escape routes, Frontex is waging an outright war against migration \u2013 while thousands of people continue to drown in the Mediterranean. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/missingmigrants.iom.int\/region\/mediterranean\" target=\"_blank\">Almost 24,000 people have died on their way to Europe since 2014, in front of the eyes of the best-equipped agency and its task forces<\/a> \u2013 and these are only the official figures and only those assigned to the \u201cMediterranean\u201d region. This despite the fact that Frontex has an increasingly comprehensive picture of the Schengen external border: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/digit.site36.net\/2022\/02\/09\/frontex-has-air-superiority\/#more-4229\" target=\"_blank\">it invested 147 million in aerial surveillance (Frontex Aerial Surveillance Service \u2013 FASS) and analyses cross-border movements in real time at its headquarters.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency also actively cooperates with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/frontex.europa.eu\/we-build\/other-partners-and-projects\/non-eu-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">over 20 countries outside the EU<\/a>. An example: Frontex cooperates with the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, which intercepts migrant boats and forcibly tows them back to Libya, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woz.ch\/-c0e2\" target=\"_blank\">where migrants are held in violent conditions<\/a>. It actively supports the expansion of aerial surveillance in the Mediterranean, while at the same time official rescue missions continue to be reduced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Numerous reports in recent months also show Frontex officials participating in pushbacks in the Aegean and glaring gaps in fundamental rights mechanisms and reporting systems. These do not work and are merely a disguise, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/en\/2021\/12\/24\/a-fig-leaf-the-frontex-accountability-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\">leading neither to binding accountability nor to effective control of the work at European borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-none su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Gef\u00e4hrdet das Anliegen des Referendums nicht die Schengen-Mitgliedschaft der Schweiz?<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Federal Councillor Keller-Suter has started the referendum campaign with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sosf.ch\/de\/themen\/schengen-europa\/informationen-artikel\/medienmitteilung_kks-lenkt-von-eigentlichem-thema-ab.html?zur=41\" target=\"_blank\">threat of a Schengen exit<\/a> \u2013 she fails to mention that there are different scenarios for the \u201chow to continue after a NO to the Frontex expansion\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is true, however, that the Schengen Agreement does indeed have a strict exit clause that applies if Switzerland does not adopt further developments of the so-called Schengen acquis. Nevertheless, a NO to the Frontex expansion does not automatically mean the end of Switzerland\u2019s cooperation with Schengen, because a withdrawal from Schengen is not inevitable even if the referendum takes place. Rather, there are political negotiation possibilities to clarify the continuation of cooperation. In line with public statements in this direction, several experts we interviewed confirmed the view that the exit is negotiable. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/meinung\/frontex-referendum-mitverantwortung-der-schweiz-am-europaeischen-migrations-und-asylrecht-ld.1655965?reduced=true\" target=\"_blank\">Rainer J. Schweizer, professor of European and international law, has already written something similar.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Schengen agreements are the basis for the free movement of persons, which creates freedom of movement within the Schengen area. The flip side of this free movement of certain people, which is very much shaped by economic considerations, is the increased \u201cprotection\u201d of the Schengen external borders and thus the ever more vehemently implemented policy of isolation and the striving for absolute mobility control. With this external border, the EU and Schengen states are creating a neo-colonial wall that makes both legal migration from third countries increasingly impossible and legal escape routes almost completely blocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For us it is clear: the free movement of persons will not be affected by this vote \u2013 we demand an expansion of freedom of movement. Freedom of movement within Europe is an achievement. It is about time that it applies not only to people in the Schengen area, but to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must be taken into account that the current EU migration policy is based on militarisation, a network of camps and brutal border violence. Frontex plays an important role in this policy. No treaty justifies supporting this regime. Switzerland\u2019s participation in this military operation under the guise of border protection is unacceptable. It is time to send a clear signal against this violent migration policy by voting NO to the expansion of Frontex.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-none su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Aber das Referendum schafft Frontex ja nicht ab und unternimmt auch nichts gegen die bestehende Grenzgewalt?<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n\n\n\n<p>We understand the referendum and the upcoming vote as part of different and diverse resistance against the violent EU migration policy. The vote alone will not abolish Frontex and border violence. But by taking money away from Frontex, we can use an important lever. Moreover, this vote is the first time that the EU migration regime through Frontex is being negotiated in public in Europe in this way. This is a great opportunity to strengthen the common demands \u2013 No to Frontex, Yes to freedom of movement \u2013 part of a multi-faceted resistance and networks of solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is especially important for Switzerland, which likes to hide behind its status as a landlocked country \u2013 discussions about Frontex and the EU\u2019s policy of sealing people off are strongly underrepresented in public discourse. Thanks to the referendum, there will now be several months of intensive discussion about what is happening at the EU\u2019s external borders, what Switzerland has to do with it and, ultimately, a vote on the question of how the people in Switzerland who are entitled to vote want to behave about it. In addition to the vote, which is limited to a political-institutional level, we hope that as many social actors as possible will become active, that we can strengthen our networking and that the anti-border movement will emerge stronger from the No-Frontex referendum and the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-none su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Was sind denn die Alternativen zu Frontex?<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n\n\n\n<p>We are convinced: a migration policy based on solidarity is possible. Much is already being done: Every day, people defy the violent border policies, civilian sea rescues oppose the deaths on the Mediterranean, cities in solidarity organize themselves, vehement communities put up resistance. But the responsibility lies in the heart of Europe, in Brussels and in Bern. And it is precisely for this that the referendum provides a concrete means of pressure: funding. Because the calculation is simple: without money, no Frontex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sea-watch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DefundFrontex_briefingpaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">As the Defund-Frontex campaign calculates<\/a>, Frontex has invested well over 100 million euros in air surveillance since 2015, but 0 euros in naval vehicles with which lives can be saved. The campaign further calculates: If only one third of the current Frontex budget were reallocated, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sea-watch.org\/defundfrontex\/\" target=\"_blank\">a separate European sea rescue programme could be created<\/a>, including its own fleet. That would be one of many alternatives. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-none su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Welche Migrationspolitik fordert ihr?<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, we plead for legal and safe escape and migration routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, we need a new way of thinking and a new practice in dealing with migration: migration is not a threat, but a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirdly, we need a different perspective on people in exile. As the mayor of Palermo put it: \u201cThose who live in Palermo and are citizens of Palermo live by the principle that home is where you put your feet. As mayor, I make no distinction between those who were born in Palermo and those who live in Palermo.\u201d The people who live here shape the here and now. It is important to fight together for equal rights and to work towards everyone being able to (co-)shape their own lives and the lives of society. In the current political discourse, migrants on their way to Europe are increasingly criminalized \u2013 also by the risk analyses of Frontex. This criminalisation is regulated by laws, whereby racist unequal treatment is considered legal and thus legitimized. People in exile are increasingly prosecuted as a result. An example of this is the situation in Greece, where refugees are systematically accused of being traffickers and face heavy prison sentences. There is an urgent need to decriminalize people in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourthly, in order to combat global structural inequalities, today\u2019s borders and their effects need to be challenged. Global problems such as global warming, environmental disasters, the pandemic or social injustice. need global solutions, not nationalistic ones. The isolation of Europe \u2013 which Frontex plays a central role in enforcing \u2013 is not a solution to this, but a racist and imperial response. In the current system, other people are endangered under the pretext of security for some. What is urgently needed are solutions based on global solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In migration policies that center principles such as human dignity and freedom of movement, there would also be room for an agency that takes care of the reception and support of people who have fled. With a budget of several billion euros and 10,000 people working for people in exile, a lot would be possible.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer af-space-l\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about NoFrontex<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group af-arguments-more\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"af-box-m--link af-box-m--fill-dark af-btn-icon af-btn-icon--arrow-heavy-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/en\/context\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1963\">More information and comments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fully-hidden af-box-m--link af-box-m--fill-dark af-btn-icon af-btn-icon--arrow-heavy-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontex-referendum.ch\/en\/take-action\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3810\">Take action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"af-box-m--link af-box-m--fill-dark af-btn-icon 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