Italy’s warehouse in Albania as a model for the EU? What Austria’s commissioner is planning

It is a clear break with applicable EU law -and yet for many EU countries that only really practical solution For a basic problem in dealing with illegal migration. Where to go with asylum seekers? Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Is with your plan To set up camp for such cases in Albania, Pre -chicken and has been involved in a legal position war with Italy’s highest strips since then.

But now it rolls EU Commission and thus Austria’s migration commissioner Magnus Brunner similar plans, Like the TV station Euronews learned from the commission. You want EU member countries that plan such institutions outside the EU, support in the future and the offer legal framework for this.

The Grauen children’s murder in the Bavarian Aschaffenburg committed by a Asylum seekers from Afghanistan who shouldn’t have been in Germany for a long time, made it clear once again what the EU has failed for many years. Rejected or even Criminal asylum seekers remain as submarines in EU countries simple because it is impossible to deport them: because they are theirs Do not take back countries of origin Because the countries that they crossed on their trip to Europe also refuse or are not sure because the capacities are missing. Around 100,000 asylum seekers in the EU have in the past three months Get the request to leave the Union area. In fact, only a disappearing fraction of it came out.

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The deportation of rejected asylum seekers is in the EU through the so -called “Return Directive” regulated. But that comes From 2008 and is Inappropriate to get the situation under control – Especially since the wave of refugees in 2015. People from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Algeria have so far been Only brought back to their home countries in individual cases.

Die basic reform This return guideline is the first giant project for Magnus Brunner. Be Design of the new guideline is scheduled for at the end of February be presented. In addition to the – after four years of political tug of war – last year Asylum and migration pact Is it the second pillar for one of the Central EU project: a solution for the now chronic migration crisis, which helps one party to be elected from the right in Europe after the other.

Already at his introductory round in front of the EU Parliament in autumn, Brunner has the planned Italian camp in Albania rated positively. He spoke of “New ideas”that you have to discuss openly and without reservations. However, such solutions could only exist on the basis of the EU law. In the strategy papers that have now become known, the Commissioner clearly advocates “Stricter rules in the arrest” of rejected asylum seekers and “The possibility for the development of return centers”. So plans that clearly take Italy’s camp as a model. But that has to be EU law can be reformed. A lengthy and politically delicate process that could split the EU countries again. Because while Austria clearly for such plans pronounces, are about Spain or Ireland against it.