MENU
Immigration/Emmigration

Brussels tries to dig itself out of migration hole by REVOKING refugee residency

BRUSSELS is controversially attempting to dig itself out of its huge migration hole by bringing in proposals to forcibly send refugees home.

Eurocrats, speaking at the European Parliament today, have pushed forward bombshell plans to continuously evaluate the residency status of people who have been granted asylum in a landmark move to bring the migration crisis under control.Other proposals include “harmonising” huge swathes of asylum policy as EU superstate dreamers bind all nations by the same set of rules.Under the incendiary proposal a new EU asylum ministry would keep a watchful eye on the situation in refugees’ countries of origin.

Police confront asylum seekersGETTY•IG

The EU has unveiled plans to send asylum seekers back home

If it was deemed to have improved so much that the country was now considered ‘safe’, refugees who had previously been granted asylum would have their residency permits revoked and would be sent home.
Under the plans those ordered to leave would have just three months to seek an alternative legal status in Europe, such as being allowed to stay in their host country on family and human rights grounds.The dynamite suggestion is an attempt to discourage the huge levels of migration to Europe and to reassure populations in countries like Germany and Sweden, which have taken in huge numbers of predominantly Muslim refugees.

Police confront migrantsAFP

The EU Commission wants to discourage people from coming to Europe

Jean-Claude JunckerGETTY

But Jean-Claude Juncker’s department is under fire over the proposal

However, it was slammed by MEPs who argued the measure was inhumane and risked radicalising migrants because they would not be able to integrate with the constant threat of repatriation hanging over them.Politicians hammered Jean-Claude Juncker’s EU Commission for the proposal during a debate in the European Parliament today, with many vowing to vote it down.A Commission spokesman told the Civil Liberties Committee that Europe should only grant protection to people “for as long as it is needed” adding that the new directive would bring in an “obligation” for member states to regularly reevaluate asylum status.Countries would have to decide whether it was safe to send a refugee home every time they reviewed their residence permit, according to the official, who said: “If the situation changes in the country of origin, people may lose their status as a refugee.”

Swedish MEP Kristina WinbergNC

Swedish MEP Kristina Winberg blasted the plans

The EU parliament's Civil Liberties CommitteeNC

They were debated by the EU parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee

German MEP Brigit Sippel said: “Where there is a threat that is no longer existent in the country of origin the asylum seeker could be sent back, so I’m wondering to what extent member states are prepared to invest massively in early stage integration when at the back of their minds they’re thinking is it really worth it because I might have to send that refugee back?“The question that arises is there’s always this idea in the back of the mind of the employer that the refugee might be sent back after a year so how many employers will really be prepared to take on such a worker?”Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikstrom said the Commission proposal was a “race to the bottom, to the lowest possible standard”.She raged: “Many of the key proposals are not acceptable. They lack not only the basic respect for European values of solidarity and international law they even lack the respect for human basic dignity.”

We’re on very shaky ground here

Italian MEP Barbara Spinelli

Meanwhile Italian MEP Barbara Spinelli added: “We’re on very shaky ground here.”And British MEP Jean Lambert, of the Greens, said there would be no incentive for refugees to integrate or get a job “when you could be out in a year’s time”, adding: “We have some very grave misgivings about the direction of travel.”The highly controversial suggestion is part of a raft of proposals by the EU Commission to improve Europe’s asylum system and bring the spiralling migrant crisis under control.Eurocrats want the 28 states to sign up to the same centralised list of ‘safe countries’, to agree to uniform standards at migrant reception centres and to all agree to process asylum applications within six month, after which refugees would automatically gain access to the labour market.

All member states would also have to offer migrants free legal advice and translation services, personal hearings for their asylum claims and the automatic right to appeal negative decisions.

Policing the migrants

But they were greeted with dismay by Swedish MEP Kristina Winberg, who said her country had “shouldered a lot” and should be able to set its own migration policies.She blasted: “I don’t think it’s up to the EU to decide it’s up to member states to decide, so I’m against this proposal.“In Sweden we have people that have come via Greece. They’ve got mobile telephones, they can go to websites and see where the best destination is, because it’s not about getting to the first safe country.“It’s about going to the country where you’ve got the best social benefits. They hear that you get 300 euros a month in Germany, or if you’ve got family maybe 400, so they select the best country from that point of view.

“Sweden has good conditions – you have the right to a pension and childcare and child benefit – so perhaps we should get rid of this asylum shopping.”

MEPs on the Civil Liberties Committee debated the proposals today. They will have to be agreed by the whole EU Parliament and member states before becoming law.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/705730/Migrant-crisis-Brussels-solve-asylum-problem-revoking-refugee-residency
Posted on 31st August 2016 by . This entry was posted in Immigration/Emmigration. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

2 Comments on "Brussels tries to dig itself out of migration hole by REVOKING refugee residency"

Help put the World to rights and leave a Comment

  Subscribe  
Notify of
iananthonyharris
Guest
iananthonyharris

I’d like to know how!

Vote Up0Vote Down  Reply
31st August 2016 5:48 pm
Pader
Author
Pader

Not likely Ian. It is more of the EU’s typical ‘Jam tomorrow’.

Vote Up0Vote Down  Reply
31st August 2016 10:19 pm
wpdiscuz   wpDiscuz
MENU
Powered by: Wordpress
%d bloggers like this: