After the European Union considerably tightened its immigration coverage earlier this month, 19 EU nations on Wednesday urged the European Commission to finance “return hubs” outdoors the bloc for failed asylum-seekers.
Interior ministers from the 27-member bloc greenlighted a bundle of measures on December 8 that embrace the opening of return hubs and harsher penalities for migrants who refuse to go away European territory.
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden referred to as on the Commission to make the adjustments attainable.
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“Specifically, the EU nations need … the Commission to assist guarantee, going ahead, that the financing of, amongst different issues, return centres will be achieved utilizing EU funds,” the Danish immigration ministry stated in an announcement, with the signed letter despatched to the Commission connected.
The European Parliament should nonetheless vote on the measures.
Denmark has made unlawful immigration certainly one of its most important battle horses throughout its six-month stint on the helm of the EU presidency, which ends on the finish of the month.
“The work just isn’t achieved, and I’m glad that there at the moment are 19 nations that stand behind a letter calling on the EU system to supply diplomatic and financial assist to make sure that the brand new and progressive options — comparable to return centres — will grow to be a actuality,” Danish Immigration Minister Rasmus Stoklund stated in an announcement.
“For years, Denmark has labored exhausting to steer different European nations of Danish concepts comparable to shifting the processing of asylum purposes outdoors Europe, in addition to different concepts involving cooperation with third nations outdoors the EU,” the ministry added.
“The group of EU nations that help such new and progressive options has steadily expanded,” it stated.
Activists working with migrants have in the meantime denounced the measures, saying they violate migrants’ human rights and threat pushing them into hazard.
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