Greece Pitches Suspending EU Right to Asylum During Migration Crises
The plan would let EU countries suspend asylum applications temporarily and speed returns, as 332,000 people applied in the bloc and nearby countries this year, officials said.
- Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and the Netherlands, known as the Group of Five, aim to strike agreements this year to send migrants without legal status to non-European Union return hubs, potentially including Rwanda.
- European Parliament lawmakers Tineke Strik and Anna Strolenberg reported after visiting Kigali last week that Rwandan officials are open to hosting facilities, showing them sites originally prepared for Britain's abandoned deportation scheme.
- Legal obstacles loom, as the Supreme Court ruled a similar plan unlawful in 2023; rights groups caution that return hubs risk undermining essential safeguards for asylum seekers.
- On Thursday, Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris proposed that the European Union suspend asylum application rights during mass influxes, sparking debate at the Home Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg.
- Greece is pushing to include this measure in the 'European Emergency Response Framework,' a new law under development, while European Union ministers finalized the 'Return Regulation' to accelerate deportations across the bloc.
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After the shock of Ceuta, many EU countries are pushing for a tightening of the migration rules. And the EU Commission is touching on another taboo.
Greece proposes that the European Union may temporarily suspend the right to apply for asylum in the event of a massive influx of migrants or when migration is used by third countries as a hybrid threat. The measure, which would allow for the acceleration of returns, is supported by several Member States and could be included in a new European emergency mechanism.
GREECE proposed to the EU the suspension of the right to asylum in crisis situations of a mass influx of migrants. The proposal is supported by part of the members, but criticized by human rights organizations.
Greece pitches suspending EU right to asylum during migration crises
A special regime would be activated in case of a rapid increase in arrivals and migrants flows used as a hybrid threat by third countries. Several EU governments seem open to the proposal, which could feature in the Commission’s new Emergency Response.
The government of Pedro Sánchez has again pointed out to itself at the meeting of European Ministers of the Interior, being the only one who has refused to approve the new expulsion regulation that provides for the construction of deportation centers in third countries. For reasons that are not easy to understand, the socialist executive has wanted to see again that it is completely isolated before a general current that crosses the entire Europ…
With opposition from Spain, France and Portugal, the European bloc tightened its migration policy and externalizes repression towards the Global South.
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