The European Parliament has voted in favor of a highly contentious reform of the EU asylum policy, aiming to strengthen the bloc's borders and discourage the flow of migrants. The reform package includes measures to support southern countries, which often bear the brunt of asylum seekers' arrival. The approval of the 10 Bills that make up the package comes after eight years of development and could potentially lead to quicker processing of asylum cases, raising concerns among human rights organizations.
MEPs vote through highly contentious reform of EU asylum policy in effort to harden bloc’s borders and discourage flow of migrantsEuropean Parliament president Roberta Metsola and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Wednesday. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPAThe new migration pact will harden up the European Union’s borders and includes measures to help southern countries , often the point of arrival for asylum seekers, better shoulder that burden.
Human rights organisations say the move towards quicker timelines to process some asylum cases could increase the risk of vulnerable people’s claims being incorrectly refused. There are concerns new reception facilities such as those already opened on the Greek island of Samos, where conditions have been described as “prison-like”, will proliferate across the EU’s borders and become the norm.
For much of the last decade the EU has been struggling to respond to what in 2015 was dubbed the “migration crisis”. The current pact was proposed by the commission four years ago, but has its roots in previous efforts to reform asylum policy as far back as 2016.
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