EU States Agree on Safe Country List to Streamline Asylum System for Migrants
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EU states agree on safe country list to streamline asylum system for migrants
The European Parliament and EU Member States have reached a provisional agreement on two laws that will speed up the rejection of asylum applications that are considered unfounded.Negotiators have agreed on an EU-wide list of safe countries of origin, meaning that asylum claims from people coming from those countries are unlikely to be successful.Commenting on...
In the future, it will apply uniformly: those who come from certain countries and apply for asylum in the EU will receive a faster procedure. However, no one will automatically be rejected.
The EU intends to make it easier to reject asylum applications without examining them in situations where the applicant could have sought asylum in “safe third countries”.
Responsibility for migrants can be more easily handed over to non-EU countries. 18 countries and Austria call on the EU Commission to "innovative solutions" in migration policy
The negotiators of the European Parliament and the Council (government) have reached an agreement on Thursday on the first list of "safe countries of origin" to speed up the return of migrants who will "probably" reject their asylum applications and which will be a dynamic list in which Colombia, Morocco and Tunisia have already been included.
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