EU reaches deal on 'return hubs' for rejected asylum-seekers
The provisional law would let governments send rejected asylum seekers to third countries and extend detention and entry bans.
- On Monday, European Union lawmakers and member-state negotiators reached a provisional deal allowing 'return hubs' in third countries to accelerate deportations of irregular migrants ordered to leave the bloc.
- Driven by political pressure and the need to improve a system where only around 28% of migrants ordered to leave currently depart, Brussels sought tougher measures to bring order to the bloc.
- New regulations extend maximum legal detention from six months to two years, authorize home searches compared by critics to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, and increase entry bans to ten years.
- Rights groups including the International Rescue Committee warned the deal creates a 'draconian detention and deportation system,' citing failures of similar offshore models like the UK-Rwanda plan that cost €830 million.
- The reform awaits formal approval by the European Parliament and member states before entering into force, with most measures applying immediately and others taking effect 12 months later to allow regulatory preparation.
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Spain stands firm as only EU country to oppose new deportation centre deal
The EU reached a deal Monday on a new tightening of migration rules allowing for so-called "return hubs" to be set up outside the bloc, as countries seek to boost deportations. Spain is the only EU country to vote against this measure.
Parliament and Member States agree on a new regulation for forced "returns", which could be enforced by all EU countries.
EU countries will be able to set up return centres outside the EU in the future. Human rights organisations have criticised the agreement.
The European Parliament, the EU Member States, and the European Commission have reached an agreement on the return scheme for rejected asylum seekers. Previously, the three could not agree on exactly when the scheme would come into force. They have now reached a provisional agreement on a compromise regarding this.
In ten days' time the new asylum pact will enter into force, different from the Italian-Albania protocol, and the Meloni government will have to resort to a new decree with the main provisions contained in the immigration ddl still stationary in the Senate and the adaptation to the European norms, plus the re-introduction of the naval blockade
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