The reform of asylum rules in the European Union (EU), agreed on Thursday by the majority of migration ministers, provides for the payment of a financial compensation of 20,000 euros for each asylum seeker who is not relocated.
According to one of the approved texts, which defines mandatory but flexible solidarity within the EU when responding to asylum seekers, Member States must receive a certain number of asylum seekers arriving in an EU country under migratory pressure, but if they refuse, they must make a financial contribution.
The expected financial compensation is € 20,000 per rejected asylum seeker.
The amounts will be paid into a fund managed by the European Commission to finance migration management projects.
The EU foresees the relocation of 30,000 migrants per year and a contribution of €660 million to the fund intended to finance migration policy.
A second approved text stipulates that Member States will accelerate the assessment at border centers, within a maximum period of three months, of asylum applications from migrants with a lower statistical probability of obtaining refugee status, in order to facilitate their return to their country of origin. transit.
The EU member states approved by majority an agreement to reform asylum rules at a meeting in Luxembourg with the ministers of the ’27’ with the migration portfolio.
The agreement, reached by qualified majority, aims to regulate asylum and migration management and the regulation of asylum procedures, two parts of the migration and asylum pact that the EU aims to finalize by April 2024.
“Thank you for the broad support for these two dossiers,” said the host of the meeting, Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.
The agreement was only possible after Italy lifted its concerns about the conditions for deporting migrants without asylum who arrive in the EU.
Hungary and Poland voted against the agreement and Bulgaria, Malta, Slovakia and Lithuania abstained.
Sweden holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU until 30 June.
To reach the agreement today, only a qualified majority was needed, not unanimity.
A qualified majority is reached when at least 15 of the 27 EU Member States vote in favor and there are countries that represent at least 65% of the EU population.
After approval, negotiations with the European Parliament will follow. The final legal texts will emerge from the negotiations.
Source: DN
