US EditionEU Set to Back Migrant 'Return Hubs'
EU ministers plan offshore migrant return centers, harsher penalties, and a solidarity system to ease pressure on frontline states amid a 20% drop in irregular entries in 2025.
- On Monday, EU interior ministers in Brussels will vote on measures presented this year by the bloc's executive to tighten migration policy.
- Political risk around accepting asylum seekers has made burden-sharing fraught as governments across Europe fear far-right parties gaining at the ballot box, and an EU diplomat said there is "a widely shared political wish" to advance.
- Among the proposals are measures to open centres outside the EU for migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected, impose harsher penalties including longer detention, and create a new "solidarity" system to distribute at least 30,000 asylum seekers or accept $23,000 per person.
- Under Denmark's push, the process has accelerated, with centre-right and far-right lawmakers backing the measures, despite activist warnings from Silvia Carta of PICUM about pushing people into 'legal limbo' and danger.
- If approved on Monday, officials will begin talks with the European Parliament; the proposals follow a drop in irregular entries by around 20 percent so far in 2025 and a mammoth new migration law due in June.
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After months of negotiations, the EU interior ministers agreed on a significant tightening of the common asylum policy.At their meeting on Monday in Brussels, they paved the way for so-called return centres in third countries.The measures now have to be approved by the EU Parliament.In June 2024, the EU decided to reform the Common European Asylum System, which the Member States should implement by June 2026. In April, the EU Commission announce…
The EU states have agreed to strengthen the asylum conditions for migrants and to redistribute 21,000 asylum seekers.
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EU set to back migrant 'return hubs'
EU countries on Monday are expected to approve a significant tightening of Europe's immigration policy, including endorsing the concept of setting up "return hubs" for migrants outside the 27-nation bloc.
EU set to tighten migration rules with plan for offshore ‘return hubs’
EU states are expected on Monday to back tougher migration rules, including plans for “return hubs” outside the bloc, as governments seek to blunt far-right gains. Interior ministers in Brussels will vote on proposals to tighten controls on migrant arrivals and accelerate returns, the first test of measures issued this year.
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