EU wants to send more people back to Africa, Middle East and Asia
STOCKHOLM, 26 January (Reuters) – Europe EU migration ministers are meeting on Thursday to discuss visa restrictions and better coordination within the bloc so that more people without asylum in Europe can be sent home, including to Iraq.
Three years after the 27-nation EU agreed to limit visas for countries that fail to cooperate in repatriating their people, only Gambia has been formally punished.
Executive of the EU Europe The Commission took similar steps against Iraq, Senegal and Bangladesh offer did, although two EU officials said cooperation with Dhaka on repatriation had since improved.
Still, according to the latest data from Eurostat, the EU’s overall effective income ratio was 21% in 2021.
“This is a level that member states consider unacceptably low,” said one of the EU officials.
Immigration is a highly sensitive topic in the bloc, where member states prefer to discuss increasing returns as well as reducing illegal immigration, rather than reviving their bitter feud over how to share the responsibility of caring for immigrants. Win your right to Europe and stay.
“Establishing an effective and common EU system for return is a central pillar of well-functioning and reliable migration and asylum systems,” the commission said in a discussion paper for ministers seen by Reuters.
UNAccording to the information of 2022, about 160,000 people crossed the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, about 8 million Ukrainian refugees have been registered in Europe.
Ministers 27 EU national is meeting two weeks before its leader gathers in Brussels to discuss migration and is expected to call to send more people away.
A draft of the joint statement, also seen by Reuters, reads: “Europe Swift action is needed using all relevant EU policies to ensure effective returns from the Union to countries of origin.”
However, according to the Commission, there are insufficient resources and coordination between the different parts of government to ensure that every person who does not have the right to remain in the EU is effectively returned or deported.
“Insufficient cooperation from countries of origin is an additional problem,” he added, citing problems including the recognition and issuance of identity and travel documents.
But pressure from migration chiefs to punish some third countries with visa restrictions has in the past been opposed by the EU’s own foreign and development ministers, or failed due to conflicting agendas of different EU countries.
So far, there is not enough of a majority among EU countries to penalize any country other than The Gambia, where people can no longer get multiple entry visas into the bloc and face longer waits.
EU countries, including Austria and Hungary, have been vocal about illegal immigration from the predominantly Muslim Middle East and North Africa. protest Although it does, Germany is among those willing to open its labor market to much-needed workers from outside the bloc.
Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Supplement by Philip Blenkinsop report; Edited by Jonathan Oatis
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2023-01-26 09:27:26
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