US EditionEU tightens migration rules with plan for offshore ‘return hubs’
The pact includes return hubs outside the EU, harsher penalties, and a solidarity system to relocate at least 30,000 asylum seekers, amid a 20% decline in irregular entries in 2025.
- European Union officials are finalizing a major overhaul of their migration system, which includes streamlined deportations and increased detentions.
- The new policy allows EU nations to deny residency and deport migrants from safe countries, as explained by Danish Minister Rasmus Stoklund.
- A solidarity pool will collect 430 million euros to support countries facing higher migratory pressure, including Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Spain.
- Human rights groups warn that the EU's changes may lead to more suffering, according to Silvia Carta from the Brussels-based Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants.
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Europe's interior ministers have agreed to strengthen EU asylum law, including opening the way for deportation centres in third countries. The EU Parliament still has to agree to the plans.
In particular, these measures must be approved by the European Parliament. The Twenty-Seven also agreed on a new system for the allocation of asylum seekers on Monday 8 December.
With him at the head, the EU's interior ministers not only strengthen the right to asylum. They outsource it to Africa. Such hard-heartedness has never been.
EU pushes ahead with overhaul of migration rules as ‘return hubs’ approved
Following pressure from right-wing and far-right parties, the European Union’s 27 member states have approved a major tightening of the bloc’s migration rules – including the controversial introduction of so-called 'return hubs' for rejected asylum seekers.
EU governments back 'return hubs' in tightening of migration policy
Interior ministers of European Union member states approved a slate of measures on Monday that include the creation of centers outside EU borders for sending away irregular migrants. Parliament must now consider whether to approve the measures.
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