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EU leaders set course for tougher policy on migrants

October 18, 2024
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EU leaders set course for tougher policy on migrants
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Leaky external EU borders are destroying the EU’s Schengen passport-free travel area, fuelling the rise of far-right parties and affecting election results across Europe, making migration a key political problem.

“The European Council calls for determined action at all levels to facilitate, increase and speed up returns from the European Union using all relevant EU policies instruments and tools, including diplomacy, development, trade and visas,” the leaders said in written conclusions of their meeting.

Out of 484,000 non-EU citizens ordered to leave the EU last year, only 20 per cent returned home. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Commission was working to improve this number and would soon present a law to deal with it.

The leaders also supported Poland in its plan to temporarily suspend accepting asylum applications from migrants pushed across the country’s eastern border by Belarus and Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the controversial move was meant to stop Belarus from “destabilising” Poland by allowing large numbers of migrants into the country.

Migrants stranded at the border between Belarus and Poland in the hope of getting into the EU. (AP PHOTO)

While many non-governmental organisations say the decision to refuse asylum applications is a violation of the EU’s charter of fundamental rights, von der Leyen said it was legal as a temporary response to a hybrid attack by Minsk and Moscow.

“Russia and Belarus…cannot be allowed to abuse our values, including the right to asylum, and to undermine our democracies,” EU leaders said in the conclusions. “The European Council expresses solidarity with Poland. … Exceptional situations require appropriate measures.”

EU leaders also discussed setting up “return hubs” in countries outside the EU, where migrants whose EU asylum bids were refused could await deportation to their home country, providing it was safe to return them there.

Von der Leyen said the discussion on how to organise such hubs was still in progress to establish what third country could be considered safe, how long a migrant could be kept in a hub and what to do if a return to the home country was not possible.

The right-wing government of Italy has already set up such a “return hub” in Albania, and the conservative Dutch government is considering sending rejected African asylum seekers to Uganda.

Not all leaders were enthusiastic about the idea.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that for a country as big as Germany, asylum processing hubs outside the bloc would only be able to handle a fraction of requests and that a law on fast returns would be more helpful.

Scholz and other leaders also stressed the EU badly needed migrants as the EU population ages and pay-as-you-go pensions systems come under increasing strain.

Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said migration was a positive phenomenon and something that Spain and other European economies desperately needed to prop up ailing birth rates and their welfare states.

“Do we want a prosperous and therefore open Europe, or do we want a poor and therefore closed Europe?” Sanchez said.

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