The Council of Ministers approved the plan to tighten European asylum rules

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to the German publication “Die Site”, the asylum reforms of the European Union have finally been decided after almost ten years of discussions and negotiations. became. According to the announcement of the Council of the European Union, the member states of this organization in Brussels agreed with these plans, which foresee, among other things, the rapid processes of refugees at the foreign borders. The European Union wants to use these reforms to better control migration to Europe. These measures are intended to reduce the burden on the shoulders of the main countries of entry, such as Italy and Greece. According to this law, in the future, immigrants who have little chance of being accepted as refugees will be prevented from continuing their journey through Asylum seekers are banned at the EU’s external borders and can be deported directly from border camps. Accordingly, asylum seekers are housed in prison-like conditions for a maximum of three months – although this period can be extended in the event of a crisis. Families with children should also go through these steps. The German federal government had tried in vain to make an exception for this group.

According to the new regulations, EU member states can also return migrants to other countries if the asylum decision is negative. They will be returned to a safe third country such as Tunisia or Albania, where they can apply for asylum. However, refugees must have ties to the third country to which they are deported – for example through relatives or education.

Human rights groups have been criticizing the asylum reforms for months. According to the pro-refugee organization Perusile, Germany allows member states to largely withdraw and divert refugee support by classifying neighboring countries or other countries along migration routes as safe. This leads to people who have fled to Europe being deported without investigating the real reasons for their flight to these countries.

Nancy Pfizer, Germany’s Federal Interior Minister, welcomed the adoption of these reforms. Referring to the European Union elections that will be held in Germany on June 9, he said: after ten years of negotiations and “deep divisions in the European Union” on migration issues, now “Europe’s strength and ability to act” has been shown. .

These new asylum rules will come into force after they are published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Member States then have two years to implement it at the national level. According to EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, some member states have more or less begun to implement it. The year is 2016. About 330,000 of these applications have been in Germany.

Thus, after years of disagreement, EU member states have finally adopted stricter asylum rules, key elements of which include fast-track asylum procedures at external borders and It is to support the countries of the European Union, where a large number of immigrants arrive. EU on security commitments for Ukraine