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The announcement of the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was effective“We will abolish the Dublin regulation,” he said two days ago in his State of the Union address. We will replace it with a new European migration governance system. It will have common structures for asylum and return, along with a strong solidarity mechanism. Now for Italy it is a question of seeing how. And, apparently from the consultations between capitals, the mandatory relocations that Rome has been calling for for a long time would not have been planned. Details on the new EU pact on migration and asylum will be released on September 23, when it is presented.
The Dublin regulation, also signed by Italy by the then Berlusconi government, establishes the criteria for determining the State responsible for examining an asylum application and provides for the exclusive responsibility of the State of first entry. From what little emerges, however, It seems that the time has not yet come for full solidarity between the EU states. and the new reform is likely to only provide financial and administrative support to front-line states.
Permanence
Basically, there would be no mandatory relocation of the asylum seeker with the handling of the application by the country of destination (as happened with the refugees rescued at sea relocated after the Malta agreement last year): the asylum seeker would remain in the country of first entry but the cost of its management and any repatriation in case of non-acceptance of the application would be borne by another EU country that is not willing to accept it in its own territory. Efforts will also be made to improve asylum procedures, which are often cumbersome and lengthy.
Economic migrants
However, one of Italy’s problems is that most of the illegal landings on our shores and rescues at sea (von der Leyen said that saving lives at sea is not optional) represented by economic migrants who do not have the right to asylum. The reform of the EU Commission is very broad and affects all aspects of the migration issue. When a migrant disembarks they will be immediately identified to determine if they can potentially apply for asylum or if they are an economic migrant. The reform provides for a European return mechanism for economic immigrants who have entered illegally with binding agreements with third countries: in short, no agreement and financial aid without a repatriation agreement.
The humanitarian corridors
Part of the reform will also cover legal immigration, whose regulation should be improved through humanitarian corridors, flows, direct calls, student permits. President von der Leyen explained that a common European policy on migration is necessary because the Union will have to learn to live with the phenomenon of migration. For this necessary create a quick return system and a mandatory solidarity mechanism, with a set of solutions to be implemented according to the situations and intensity of migratory flows.
Negotiation
The reform framework will be presented on September 23, followed by 5 regulatory regulations (details will be critical). The proposal will then have to be negotiated by the Council and the negotiations will be long and complex because a meeting point on mandatory solidarity will be found. In June, seven countries (the Visegrd group plus Slovenia, Estonia and Latvia) had written to Brussels to reiterate their no to mandatory relocations. And Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus are tired of being alone. Germany supports mutual support (as does France) and would like to close a deal under your presidency. It would be a great political success for Chancellor Angela Merkel, which at the end of his mandate has already managed to get the EU countries to accept the common debt of the Recovery Fund. But the migrant game seems even more difficult than the economic one.
September 18, 2020 (change September 18, 2020 | 07:58)
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