Podcast

"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.

Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.

Outsourcing EU asylum policy 

Sybille Straubinger talks with Neva Övünç Öztürk, a Turkish lawyer and assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at Ankara University, about the effects of the EU-Turkey deal and the outsourcing of European asylum policy.

In April a fundamental reform of the “Common European Asylum System” was adopted by the European Parliament. The core elements of the reform are asylum procedures to be carried out as quickly and “efficiently” as possible directly at the external borders, so that asylum seekers can be deported to their countries of origin and to so-called “safe third countries”. Especially if they come from countries with a low chance of being accepted. The EU-Turkey deal of 18 March 2016 can be seen as a prototype for this third country regulation.