There is a risk of Europe going down a dangerous and inadvisable path on dealing with those seeking asylum
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen: proposed consideration of new immigration controls ahead of the EU leaders' summit. from Belarus. He insists that he he is acting in defence of his country’s security interests against “hybrid war” tactics from that country and Russia of pushing migrants across its border.
His decision, which flies in the face of the EU’s common migration policy, is set to upset a fragile consensus among EU leaders on migration at this week’s summit which is expected to be dominated by the issue. The Polish move follows German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision earlier this month to introduce checks at all German border controls, a move France has since said it wants to replicate.
And in her letter to leaders ahead of the summit, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the EUfor “return hubs” in third countries, along the lines of Italy’s contentious new initiative to ship migrants off to Albania, to speed up ejections of undocumented immigrants. Previously the commission opposed the similar British Rwanda deportation scheme.
Poland is proposing temporarily to bar refugees from claiming asylum in the country after crossing the border from neighbouring Belarus, claiming that Russia and its allies are using migrants to try to destabilise the EU by stoking anti-migration sentiment and tying up resources.
Lessons from an Airbnb host: ‘Two sisters insisted we call the Bord Gáis emergency services because the radiator was too hot’But this is a dangerous and inadvisable path for the EU to follow. Poland’s policy of returning migrants without assessing their potential claims may well be a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Europe’s leaders appear to be lurching to the right, unwilling to make a case for a humane and efficient system of dealing with asylum seekers.
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