Brussels, Belgium: The European Union is open to the idea of sending asylum seekers abroad, although it is reluctant to follow through on Britain’s plan to fly irregular migrants to Rwanda.
It also figures in the reform of the migration and asylum law, which will be voted on Wednesday by the European Parliament and includes provisions to send asylum seekers to “safe” third countries.
However, EU law will require a demonstration of the “link” between the asylum seeker and the sending country.
Britain’s plan, by contrast, would see Rwanda become a permanent host country for all asylum seekers who arrive on British soil “irregularly”, despite its ties to the central African nation.
This idea has been taken up in the European Court of Human Rights.
Such a transfer would not be possible in the European Union because “it is not compatible with the current legislative framework or the reforms that will be chosen,” said European policy migration analyst Alberto? Horst Neidhardt said. Central intelligence center.
However, several EU member states – Austria and Denmark – have expressed an interest in following the UK’s path.
A surge in asylum applications across Europe, along with an increase in far-right voters in June’s EU elections, has fueled the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen EPP made a similar proposal in her election manifesto.
Jens Spahn, a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (EPP), said that some migrants would try to enter the European Union if it was clear within 48 hours.
Italy’s right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has struck a deal with Albania to allow migrants to cross the border.
The Rome agreement signed with Tirana in November states that the transfer of migrants to detention centers in Albania will be financed by Italy, which will be responsible for evaluating asylum claims and applying Italian law.
Von der Leyen praised the model as “an example of thinking outside the box”.
The former mandarin of the European Commission for asylum and immigration policy, Anne-Louis De Brouwer, now director of the European affairs program at the think tank Egmont Institute, said that the Italian-Albanian plan could be extended.
This is a type of bilateral agreement that can be signed by European Union countries and Balkan countries hoping to join the Union, such as North Macedonia and Germany.
“It has a certain political logic,” he said.
“The candidate countries will in this way clearly show their desire to participate in the form of European cooperation in the field of asylum and international protection,” he said.
However, given the high number of asylum seekers, he said such measures would be a “drop in the bucket”.
As for migrant charities and non-governmental organizations, they have strongly criticized the Asylum and Asylum Agreement for migrants as an overhaul of current EU rules and the idea of EU countries sending migrants to so-called “safe” countries.
“The proposed regulation lowers the standard of protection required overseas.”
An amendment proposed by a left-wing French member of the European Parliament, Damien Carréme, would allow the UK to deport sub-Saharan migrants living in Tunisia despite the country’s “extreme rise in racism”.
“It’s crazy,” he said, adding that the commission and member states are “interested” in the issue of “offshore migration” that Brussels has or wants to negotiate with neighboring countries.
Tunisian European Union officials signed an agreement with Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey as a useful tool to prevent irregular migration to European shores.
