PE: Meloni-Rama plan applicable to other countries as well

2024-04-10 13:50:08Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
PE: Meloni-Rama plan applicable to other countries as well
Rama and Meloni

The European Union paved the way for the idea of ​​sending asylum seekers to safe non-member third countries, as Italy is doing with Albania.

MEPs approved the new pact on migration where they rejected the British model aimed at resettling irregular migrants to Rwanda as their permanent host country. This idea of ​​the British contradicts the European Court of Human Rights.

Only Austria and Denmark have expressed interest in following the path of Great Britain. Rome's agreement with Tirana outlines transfers of migrants rescued at sea to centers set up in Albania to be financed and run by Italy, which will retain responsibility for assessing asylum claims.

Von der Leyen has praised this model as an example of thinking outside the EU. She argued that fewer irregular migrants would try to reach the European Union if it was clear that within 48 hours they would be sent to a safe place outside the EU.

The MEPs emphasized that the agreement between Rama and Meloni can serve as a model of the bilateral agreement that the EU countries can reach with the Balkan states that hope to join, taking as an example between North Macedonia and Germany. According to them, the candidate states would thus give a clear indication that they are ready to participate in a form of European solidarity in the treatment of asylum.

The migration pact that toughens EU entry procedures for asylum seekers will not come into force until 2026.

The EP has voted the pact on migration which includes a wide-ranging review of immigration policies requiring all member states to share the responsibility.

Last year marked a record increase in the number of asylum applications to 1.14 million in the 27 EU countries, the highest level since 2016.

About 380,000 illegal immigrants managed to enter the EU. The new reform largely maintains the existing basic rule that the first EU country an asylum seeker arrives in is responsible for their case.

A "solidarity mechanism" is set up that requires all EU countries to help frontline states such as Italy and Greece when they are under pressure, either by taking in some of the asylum seekers or by providing an equivalent financial contribution.

A system will also be created to take the biometric data of each incoming asylum seeker and place them in an EU database called Eurodac.

Their applications will be processed in a maximum of 12 weeks and if rejected they must return to their countries within the following 12 weeks. Under the new system, member states will have to choose between accepting their share of 30,000 asylum applicants or paying at least €20,000 per person into an EU fund.


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