Visser sees “historic momentum” for the new EU asylum system
Weser examines asylum procedures outside the European Union
According to a press report, the federal government is studying whether asylum procedures can also take place in countries outside the European Union. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung reported, quoting Interior Minister Weisser (SPD), that “constitutional immigration agreements with third countries” are planned.
European Union countries want to reform the common asylum system. According to Home Secretary Nancy Visser, the federal government has agreed to a common position. The asylum procedure must already take place at the EU’s external borders. However, many questions remain unanswered.
DrAccording to Home Secretary Nancy Visser (SPD), the federal government wants to support asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders and thus enable reform of European refugee policy. There is a “historic momentum that we can manage with other European countries to get a common asylum system on the ground,” Visser said Sunday night on ARD’s “Report from Berlin.” She stressed the importance of starting the registration and identification of migrants “as soon as possible.”
Visser further explained that Traffic Light had agreed that “the asylum procedure at the border can already take place. This means that the registration, registration and identification of refugees will already take place there.” In the context of “reconciliation” within the European Union, “the solidarity of other countries” is required. Those who meet the “protection quotas” must then also be admitted.
According to Weisser, it has been in talks with other EU countries for months about the details of the new measure. Germany works with France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium and others. The processing time for asylum applications is a maximum of twelve weeks, but the time is still being debated.
European Union countries are working on a comprehensive reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). In the summer of last year, member states agreed on stricter rules at European external borders and database reform for fingerprinting. Agreements with the European Parliament on these issues are still pending. In addition, the 27 countries are far from resolved when it comes to the core of a possible reform – for example the question of the distribution of asylum seekers. Member states must now inform the EU Commission of their negotiating position.
According to Weisser, the federal government is also studying whether asylum procedures can be carried out in countries outside the European Union. She told the “rule of law immigration agreements with third countries.”Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper“We are studying whether it is also possible to establish a protection status in third countries.” The Federal Ministry of the Interior confirmed the project to ZDF.
Last year, one million asylum applications were filed in EU countries, more than in 2016. In addition, there were nearly four million people from Ukraine who do not have to apply for asylum in the EU, but who still need housing. and care.
