Brunner in Strasbourg – Asylum Center & Co.: EU harder for deportation

Brunner wants to make a “more efficient, more coherent return system” with “Rules standardized throughout Europe”, as he explained in advance. These asylum rules must be considerably tightened.

The most important points of the new EU return law:

• Return Should be faster and more efficient in the future. Deport of deportation issued by an EU country should also be In the other Member States automatically applicable. This should make the return faster and prevent the illegal migrants from “immersing” again. Special rules must be for Minor give.
• Criminal If you could be held, you should be a security threat. According to the proposal, Member States should check early in the future whether a person is a security risk. Once these people have been identified, strict rules such as the forced return apply, Forbidden longer access and individual reasons for detention. According to the Commission, the detention can be expanded by judicial regulation after the normal 24 months.

• Illegal migrants who have to be admitted should Directly from the EU country Can be returned to their country of origin, in which they were last arrested in another EU country, as was possible.

• A new concept should be the definition “Safe third countries” Standardize and simplifies, since this classification is currently responsible for the respective EU country. Brunner announced this concept until June 2025.
• An important important point: the controversial “Return Hubs”, ie return centers, Can be built in third countries in the future, for which a return message has already been issued. According to the draft, corresponding agreements can be concluded with a third country that the International human rights standards And basic principles. The centers would act under very strict conditions, said Vice -President Henna Virkkuns in the press conference on Tuesday. The proposal is therefore about the massive criticism of NGOs and human rights organizations.
• With a legal residence permit it should also be Guarantees for fundamental rights give. Brunner deals with the criticism of NGOs and human rights organizations that had criticized the law as too sharply.
• Returning must also be resolved in the future Work closer with the authorities must. If you don’t do this, there are difficult consequences. Lowering or removing services or the seizure of travel documents are mentioned here. At the same time, incentives for cooperation, including the support of the voluntary return, must be strengthened.

Return percentage currently only 20 percent
According to the EU committee, a current efficiency in the EU of only 20 percent and different systems in the individual EU countries would promote abuse. “Returns must be a priority,” said Virkkuns. The new law must make a strict distinction between those who legally live and work in Europe and those who are not entitled to it.

Another level is to be stricter for those who have become delinquent and represent a security risk. People who represented a threat should not easily travel in public, added Brunner in the press conference before his speech in parliament.

“Drain Dirty Business of the Tractor”
The approach is an “honest but ruthless migration policy,” Brunner continued. It is not acceptable “if people who do not have the right to keep exploiting it that way”. Brunner announced that the “dirty things of the tugboats dry”.

The EU return directive regulates the return of people from third countries who are illegal in the EU. The current directive was adopted in 2008. Their revision is one of the core projects of the Leyen Commission and the first important task for the former Finance Minister Brunner. The committee’s proposal must be accepted by the EU parliament and the Council of the Member States before it may apply.