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Shortly before the presentation of the new EU proposals on refugee policy, Italy apparently agreed to accept 300 refugees from the burning camp of Moria. This was announced by an aid organization.
After the fire in the Moria refugee camp, Italy apparently wants to take in 300 immigrants from the Greek island of Lesbos in cooperation with the Catholic Church. The Catholic Community of Sant’Egidio announced that the corresponding agreement would be signed with the Ministry of the Interior. This was “the first Italian response to the appeal of the European Union,” said a statement from the Catholic aid organization, which is committed to helping migrants, among other things.
After the great fire in the Moria camp about two weeks ago, more than 12,000 migrants were left homeless on Lesbos. As a result, there was much criticism for the unwillingness of the other EU states to participate in the reception of immigrants from refugee camps on the Greek islands. Germany had agreed to accept up to 1683 of them. However, the initiative of the federal states and municipalities to host more refugees directly failed in the Bundestag.
New EU attempt to reform refugee policy
The EU Commission wants to present its plans for a new European asylum and migration policy on Wednesday. It is a new attempt by the authority to resolve the dispute over the admission of long-term asylum seekers. The core of the proposals, which became even more urgent in the context of the fires in the Greek countryside of Moria, is likely to be a reform of the Dublin system.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has spoken out in favor of examinations at the external borders. He could push through the reform until the end of the year as president of the EU interior ministers council.
Seehofer maintains that after the border procedure, people without the right to asylum would be deported directly. This would reduce the number of people to be redistributed and therefore the burden sharing problem in general. Opponents of the procedure fear further suffering for those seeking protection and overload for southern European countries.
