The agreement, reached today after years of negotiations, provides for greater control over the EU’s external borders.
After years of negotiations, the European Union has succeeded in approving the Migration and Asylum Pact, an agreement that greater border control of the EU, and will give governments a “solidarity on demand” allowing relocated migrants to avoid receiving shelter with alternatives such as payment of compensation for the refused transfer.
It took two days of intensive negotiations to remove the last obstacles in the complex legislative package proposed by the European Commission in 2020.
The agreement reached earlier today between the representatives of the Presidency of the EU Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission, still needs to be formalized and adopted in the first half of 2024, before the European elections that will take place from 6 to 9 June.
The idea to reform European migration policy began to take shape in 2016, when almost two million immigrants and asylum seekers arrived in the EU. fleeing the war in Syria.
Mandatory refugee quotas were abolished after the failure of the previous Commission and à la carte solidarity was chosen, which will enable the twenty-seven statesvoluntarily accept refugees or otherwise participate in the effort, for example by financing the construction of shelters.
The goal is to transfer at least 30,000 migrants annually, but countries may refuse to receive some of those who are welcome in exchange for compensation of 20,000 euros for each rejected transfer or resources or monies of equal value.
Source: EITB
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