EU leaders consider centers outside bloc to process refugees
Draft conclusions for the European Council summit next week propose the creation of ‘disembarkation platforms.’
European Council President Donald Tusk has proposed that EU leaders create “regional disembarkation platforms” outside the European Union, where officials could quickly differentiate between refugees in need of protection and economic migrants who would potentially face return to their countries of origin.
The proposal is an effort to break the acute political crisis over migration and asylum that has bedeviled EU leaders since 2015 — and even threatened in recent days to topple the German government — even as the numbers of arrivals have plummeted since the peak of the crisis.
The disembarkation platform concept — which officials said would have to be implemented in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) — could create a formal mechanism by which the EU can bridge the divide between hard-line leaders calling for tough border controls and those insisting that EU nations obey international law and welcome refugees in need of protection.
But the idea could also open EU leaders to criticism that they are outsourcing their political problem by creating centers for people seeking entry in countries on the periphery of the bloc. Among the potential partner nations are Tunisia and Albania, but officials say it is far too soon to speculate.
The idea to create such facilities was suggested in 2016 by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the strongest critic of the EU’s policies on migration — especially on the relocation of refugees across Europe.
More recently, French President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed the idea, and on Sunday Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero said Italy wants to officially put the idea on the table at the European Council summit.
According to the draft guidelines, the new sites would “establish a more predictable framework for dealing with those who nevertheless set out to sea and are rescued in Search And Rescue Operations.”
The conclusions state: “Such platforms should provide for rapid processing to distinguish between economic migrants and those in need of international protection, and reduce the incentive to embark on perilous journeys.”
▻https://www.politico.eu/article/regional-disembarkation-platforms-eu-leaders-consider-camps-outside-bloc-to
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à la frontière entre la #Serbie et la #Hongrie, « une étincelle peut mettre le feu aux poudres »
Plusieurs centaines de candidats à l’exil sont bloqués dans le no #man’s_land entre la Serbie et la Hongrie. Après le lancement d’un référendum contre l’accueil des réfugiés, Viktor Orban a renforcé son arsenal anti-migrants et Budapest expulse manu militari vers la Serbie tous les irréguliers. Reportage le long des barbelés.
▻http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/articles/refugies-a-la-frontiere-entre-la-serbie-et-la-hongrie-une-etincel
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