EU Ministers Slam Dutch Plan To Opt Out of Migration Rules
Facing increasing pressure from immigration, the Netherlands wants greater flexibility. But the Brussels establishment remains unyielding.
Facing increasing pressure from immigration, the Netherlands wants greater flexibility. But the Brussels establishment remains unyielding.
The rules on asylum and migration remain binding, and there will be no opt-out from the European treaty, Commission says.
“The voters have clearly indicated that the influx must decrease,” asylum minister said.
CDU blames lack of external border controls for drastic measures—after being main champion of EU’s ineffective Migration Pact.
Commission documents indicate a common EU asylum database is two years away.
PM Tusk will have a hard time defending his earlier claim that the migrant relocation scheme will not apply to Poland after the French prime minister contradicted him in a TV debate.
How can the EU reconcile a common immigration policy with the fact that European public opinion is very worried about the arrival of immigrants?
20 of 27 member states endorsed plan despite Poland and Hungary’s objections.
A Czech-Danish initiative, backed by most member states, calls for Brussels to adopt Italy’s third country ‘Albania model’ as the EU’s standard procedure.
If passed without unanimous voting, the pact “will not work and its implementation will be paralysed,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said.
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