This Wednesday, the plenary session of the European Parliament gave the green light for this Migration and Asylum Pact This will reform the common policy with greater control of the European Union’s external borders and offer governments “solidarity à la carte”, allowing them to avoid reception by resettled migrants if they pay compensation for each rejected transfer.
The dozen dossiers that make up immigration and asylum reform were agreed between the Council and European Parliament negotiating teams last December Years of blockade Due to the profound differences between governments, this overcomes the penultimate process of translating the new common framework into law, the ratification of which will culminate once the 27 also give their consent before the end of this month.
“Thank you for the courage to get involved,” wrote the Interior Commissioner on social networks. Ylva Johanssonto celebrate the adoption in the European Parliament of a legislative package that he had defended in the parliamentary debate a few hours earlier as historic and as a way to ensure an “orderly” management of migration flows and better border control.
A Activist group They tried to interrupt the voting session from the visitors’ gallery, shouting: “The pact kills, don’t vote for it”, but after calling for calm from the president of the institution, Roberta Metsola, and waiting a few minutes, the time had come possible to carry out the votes without further incidents.
The new rules of the immigration and asylum pact
Keys to the new rules include a faster examination of asylum applicationsalso at the external borders of the EU, and measures to ensure this more effective deportations compared to the current low rates.
It will also improve the Identification upon arrival on shared grounds and will be mandatory Health, security and vulnerability controls for migrants arriving via irregular routes.