The European Union is helping Egypt to curb migrants

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper ” De Welt wrote in an article: Unregulated immigration continues to put pressure on the European Union. In this situation, there is concern about the trend towards the extreme right in the European elections, and on the other hand, the asylum reform process has been very long. Therefore, in this situation, Brussels deals with third countries that are supposed to stop the boats carrying refugees. The next candidate for such cooperation is Egypt.

Now the news of the next trip of the European team from Brussels to this country has been published in the media. In this regard, Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Union Commission, will travel to Cairo on Sunday with the heads of the governments of Belgium, Italy and Greece to meet with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president of Egypt. According to a vague statement, this mixed foreign policy team should strengthen the partnership between the European Union and Egypt. What is. The European Union wants to conclude a new migration agreement. After the agreement with Tunisia and Mauritania, Egypt is now apparently going to solve the problem of illegal immigration to the EU. It is no coincidence that von der Leyen now describes these trips as the mission of the European team. Because in the middle of the election campaign for the European Union parliamentary elections and considering that a group of extreme right-wingers want to show themselves as superheroes in this situation, Brussels wants to send the message to the citizens that the European Union is still active in the issue of immigration.

For von der Leyen, this campaign is important in two ways. On the one hand, he wants to be reconfirmed as the president of the European Union Commission. The chances of this happening are not bad, as the European Christian People’s Party (EPP) faction, which nominated him as the top candidate, is likely to win the most votes again.

But since it is still It will take months for these reforms to be fully implemented and the results to be presented to the citizens, von der Leyen is taking another path with immigration agreements (with third countries) to show the EU worthy of action.

In this regard, an agreement was made with Tunisia in July. At that time, von der Leyen, along with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, traveled to Tunisia to sign the agreement with the country’s president Case Said. This agreement provided economic aid, in exchange for which Tunisia was supposed to prevent the movement of migrants from its shores to the European Union.

Tunisia previously It had become the country of origin of illegal immigration through the Mediterranean Sea. Maloney and Rutte also benefited from the deal, both under pressure at home over immigration. However, criticism of the agreement was loud at the time, as there were reports of racist attacks on migrants and human rights violations in Tunisia.

Results of the agreement It was also not evident as there were subsequent diplomatic tensions between the EU and Tunisia, and it took months for the number of migrants leaving to actually decrease. Nevertheless, the European Union Commission considered the Tunisia agreement to be a model that should be repeated in other countries.

The next stop of the European team was Mauritania in February, where Zaman von der Leyen traveled there with Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain. Their goal: to curb the recent sharp increase in the number of illegal immigration from this country to Spain. On the other hand, von der Leyen and Sanchez offered the Mauritanian president 210 million euros and he accepted. It is immigration. However, there are many differences from previous missions. On the one hand, Egypt is not an ordinary country from which migrants go to the European Union. Instead, they go from Egypt to Libya to board a boat, according to Luca Barana, a migration researcher at the Italian Foreign Policy Institute.

Barana also stated that Egypt plays a much more important political role in the region than Tunisia and therefore has a stronger position in negotiations with the European Union. For example, the war in Gaza has increased the importance of this country.

Therefore, Barana doubts whether the plans of the representatives of the European Union to get rid of part of their immigration problem Is it realistic with this country in the long run? Because he does not believe that Egypt, at the request of the European Union, better controls its land borders with other North African countries, as Tunisia has not done.

On the other hand A targeted fight against smuggling networks only solves part of the problem because migrants always find a way to get to the EU. It is also unclear whether an agreement will be signed on Sunday or whether the European team will only travel to Cairo for talks.

However, migration remains an unresolved crisis in the union. Europe has remained, and in order to solve this crisis and reduce the victims of asylum seekers, instead of creating legal ways for immigrants to enter, the European Union continues to increase the pressure on this oppressed group and puts stricter policies towards them on the agenda. /p>

At the end of last year, the representatives of the European Union countries and the Parliament agreed on fundamental reforms in the asylum system and the tightening of strictures against refugees.

On the other hand, European countries continue to intensify their strict policies towards asylum seekers separately.

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