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 package deal of measures on December 8 that embody 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 known as on the Commission to make the adjustments doable.
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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 completed 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 one among its fundamental 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 completed, and I’m glad that there are actually 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 revolutionary options — reminiscent of return centres — will change into a actuality,” Danish Immigration Minister Rasmus Stoklund stated in an announcement.
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“For years, Denmark has labored laborious to influence different European nations of Danish concepts reminiscent of transferring the processing of asylum functions 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 revolutionary options has steadily expanded,” it stated.
Activists working with migrants have in the meantime denounced the measures, saying they violate migrants’ human rights and danger pushing them into hazard.
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