The EU migration and refugee pact: a setback

The EU migration and refugee pact: a setback Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Compartment in Google Plus By José María Mella, emeritus professor, Autonomous University of Madrid The recent Pact on Migration and Refugees has generated a broad movement of criticism, especially among NGOs and other social and political organizations, which denounce the violation of human rights, the tightening of asylum conditions, the deportation and/or detention of asylum seekers who do not fit the standard profile, and compensation or payment of 20,000 euros per refugee or migrant rejected by the non-hosting countries.

Furthermore, as if that were

Enough, the control of migrants will also affect children over six years of age who will see their rights violated, through the detention and retention of these creatures in police facilities, the greatest obstacles to family reunification even with their own brothers, always prioritizing  Taiwan Phone Number Data externalization and border control policies over the guarantee of human rights. Because if there were a solid assumption of the principles of law, it could have been used to proceed with extraordinary regularizations of all those in administratively irregular situations. A Pact that lives up to the values ​​that the EU claims to defend should decisively support the right to emigration, safe routes of international human mobility and regularization in destination countries. Otherwise, the EU will continue crashing into the impossible. Inhuman and brutal mission of precarious reception conditions and unviable border control. For greater gloating, the  five months before the next European elections and with the anti-immigrant and extreme right nationalist parties on the rise.

This Pact is a ticking bomb that will

Create more problems than it aims to solve. That is why it is more of a threat than an opportunity, a “lost” opportunity. In short, EU countries should fulfill their hosting obligations. Respecting human rights, creating a mandatory solidarity mechanism. And not pay countries considered “safe  when there are serious doubts that they are so. Actually, compared  Hong Kong Phone Number List to the previous . Dublin system, this Pact does not represent any progress; On the contrary. It is a setback and a failure, which the EU cannot afford. On the other  implies an even higher percentage  can be declared stressed areas. Beyond the difference in the “stressed space. Under each spatial disaggregation criterion, it stands out how depending on the. Level applied we can obtain a very different map of “stressed areas” in Asturias.