European cities and municipalities show with their repeatedly declared willingness to receive asylum seekers that the commitment to human rights is a cross-sectional task of all political levels and thus also part of municipal policy. The willingness of municipalities to take in asylum seekers should not call into question the individual right to a fair and thorough state asylum procedure, but rather represent an offer of a solution in the central conflict over the European distribution of asylum seekers.
In the following, we propose two feasible options for action in each of three central municipal fields ofaction.