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After 8 years, the EU approves the "migration pact", the borders against illegal immigrants are strengthened

2024-04-10 18:02:36Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
After 8 years, the EU approves the "migration pact", the borders
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The European Parliament has today approved the "migration pact", a broad reform of the European migration policy. This "pact on migration and asylum" significantly strengthens controls on arrivals at the borders of the European Union (EU) and establishes a system of solidarity between member states in the distribution of refugees.

About ten pieces of legislation were put to parliament for a vote during a session in Brussels. The review of the rules is based on a Commission proposal presented in September 2020 after the failure of a previous attempt at reform in the wake of the 2015-2016 refugee crisis.

"We are facing our responsibilities", declared the French MEP Fabienne Keller, believing that the vote against this pact was "offering a victory to the European extreme right".

"This pact will not solve everything, but it is a step forward, a giant step," said she, the rapporteur of one of the key regulations regarding asylum procedures.

This "migration pact", which was generally supported by the three main European political families, the EPP, the Socialists and Democrats and Renee Europe, on the other hand aroused the opposition of a large part of the extreme right, but also of the Greens, the left radicals and some socialists.

"This is a historic moment. As Europeans, after eight years of intensive discussions, we have found a compromise between strict border protection against smugglers and the mafia, on the one hand, and preserving our values, asylum and the Geneva Convention, on the other hand," said Manfred Weber, the president of the EPP.

Alongside this reform, which will be implemented only in 2026, the EU is increasing agreements with countries of origin and transit of migrants (Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt) in an effort to reduce the number of arrivals at its borders. The EU faces an increase in asylum applications, which are expected to reach 1.14 million in 2023, their highest level since 2016, according to the European Asylum Agency. "Irregular" entry into the EU is also increasing, to 380,000 in 2023, according to Frontex.

The reform establishes mandatory "testing" of migrants arriving at EU borders, registering them in a common database, Eurodac. A "border procedure" is planned for those who are statistically less likely to be granted asylum: they will be held in centers while their cases are examined in an expedited manner, with the aim of returning those who are rejected more quickly.


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