The EU’s new plan to replace the Dublin Regulation:
The European Union is planning to adopt a new scheme that would require member states to accept stray refugees in exchange for a certain amount of money.
EU officials say the binding plan will end the crisis of overcrowded refugee camps in Greece.
The new scheme, called the “Compulsory Solidarity Mechanism”, obliges member states to accept 10,000 euros per adult refugee and 12,000 euros per unaccompanied child.
The new deal, which has broad support from Germany and its chancellor Angela Merkel, is being publicly discussed after a fire at a refugee camp in Greece left thousands of migrants homeless. Camp Moria had a capacity of only 3,000 people, but 12,000 people lived there.
Greek authorities have called on the European Union to take more responsibility for receiving migrants.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the new plan “logically balanced” and said all EU member states should share the “benefits” and “pressures” of the asylum issue.
European Commission President Ursula van der Leiden said last week that the new plan would replace the EU’s old Dublin rule, which stipulated that the first country an asylum seeker would arrive in would be processed by the same country.
European officials say the EU’s previous policy has been ineffective in resolving the asylum crisis.
European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas also called the current proposed package a “single, correct and coherent immigration policy”.
He said the new plan would dispense with the old Dublin plan and take a smarter approach, bringing children and families together faster.
Under the plan, asylum seekers at EU external borders will be screened before entering, and EU coast and border guards will be deployed in these external border countries (such as Italy and Greece) from 2021.
The new plan is said to specify how European countries will each contribute to the reception of migrants arriving on European shores.
The proposal, like proposals in previous years, is expected to provoke a negative reaction from a number of governments.
Since the beginning of the wave of refugees in Europe in 2015, 27 EU countries have disputed whether to accept them into their borders.
Union officials also said the implementation of the new plan would require that asylum seekers rejected in the admission process be returned to their country of origin.
The number of illegal immigrants entering Europe last year was 140,000, a sharp decline from 1.8 million in 2015 (when the migration crisis began).
Source Euronews
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