The European Union has struck a deal to tighten immigration controls, making it easier to deport failed asylum seekers and hold families in detention centres on the bloc’s external borders. The Telegraph has more.
The agreement, reached after three years of negotiations, promises to overhaul how the bloc processes migrants and paves the way for rapid assessments at borders.
Those deemed to have the lowest chance of being granted the right to stay, including families with women and children, will be processed at facilities near the bloc’s external frontiers within three months.
Before that, authorities will have just seven days to determine the status of any asylum seekers.
Those from the likes of Turkey, India and Tunisia, who have a less than 20% acceptance level, are the most likely to be labelled as economic migrants and held at the border before being returned home.
Member states away from the major points of arrival, such as Italy and Greece, will be expected to house asylum seekers to ease the burden on southern Europe.
European capitals that refuse to take in migrants can instead opt to pay financial compensation to other EU countries hosting more asylum seekers or contribute to the cost of programmes in third countries aimed at reducing migratory flows.
But it offers no change to the bloc’s Dublin regulation, which dictates that asylum seekers should seek protection in the first EU country they enter, which is most often Greece or Italy.
The deal came after two days and nights of fraught negotiations between the EU’s Parliament, Commission and Council.
The overhaul was first proposed in 2016, when more than one million migrants arrived in Europe, many escaping wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
It also comes six months before Europe-wide elections, with polls displaying a surge in support for anti-immigration parties.
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, Macron has been “humiliated” by Marine Le Pen, who has been celebrating what she called “an ideological victory” after Macron’s Government finally had its tough new immigration bill approved, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
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If immigration is as beneficial as the political class claim it is, why would the countries that take them need compensation?
It is beneficial in the same way that having a lodger who pays no rent/bills and eats all your food is.
Stop questioning your superiors, pleb.
Just swallow your daily dose of propaganda – diversity is our strength, safe and effective, climate crisis, orange man bad, russia man bad – and keep your mouth shut.
If you’re a good boy, we’ll let you wave a little flag when some minor royal visits your dreary backwater town.
And don’t forget to vote! Democracy is what makes our country great!
Oh yes, I forgot that women can have dicks, there are 157 genders, white people are evil, race doesn’t exist, there are no differences between men and women (whatever they are), going to university makes you smarter, and we’re all now intellectually and morally superior to our ancestors.
Apologies, I’m off my game today.
Too little and far too late. Tepid ‘reforms’ which will do little to stem the invasion.
Gavin in the Spectator says 1 million invaded Europe in 2015 – that is nonsense. It might have been as high as 10 million. Plus the usual village-family reunification afterwards. Millions more have entered since 2015. Overall some 40 million in the past generation have invested Europe from Africa and Muslim states. The demographic destruction cannot be stopped.
And what is the UK doing besides squat all?
Fishi Knickknack and his Serco chums are raking it in, with no stoppage to the unending millions who will end up here, legally and illegally.
Poor Greece and Italy. The EU’s version of the Roman’s Saxon Shore.
Only a wrongdoer pays compensation. Just as only the defeated pay reparations.
EU Strikes Deal to Appear to Tighten Immigration Controls
There, fixed it.
“EU Strikes Deal to Tighten Immigration Controls”
Gaslighting and nothing more prior to upcoming elections.
They’re nothing if not predictable.
Unfortunately it seems to take approximately one human lifetime to develop the level of cynicism required to match reality, by which time you’re too old and decrepit to do anything about it.
“Those from the likes of Turkey, India and Tunisia, who have a less than 20% acceptance level”
“where are you from?”
“Syria”
“Where’s your passport, mobile phone, Id?”
“haven’t got any”
” OK, come on in then!”
now it’s been announced where not to be from! It’s like an honesty box, I see flaws in the EUs rational!