Proposed EU Rules Would Fine Member Nations for Refusing Migrants
BRUSSELS—The European Union’s executive body on Wednesday proposed controversial new asylum rules forcing member countries to take in refugees, and it gave a green light to visa-free travel for Turkey and Kosovo.
The new rules from the European Commission, which have ruffled feathers among central and Eastern European states, would require nations to pay €250,000 ($287,000) for each asylum seeker they refuse.
The rules, which need to be approved by the bloc’s member governments and the European Parliament, are aimed at overhauling the current system that places most of the migration burden on the EU’s front-line states, such as Greece and Italy.
“You don’t turn your back on the problem of your neighbor, you share a common solution. That is why we need to introduce a corrective mechanism, triggered automatically,” commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said.
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Under the new system, which wouldn’t apply to the U.K., Ireland and Denmark, countries faced with a 150% increase in asylum applications in relation to their population and gross domestic product would have all newcomers redistributed to other EU nations where there are fewer asylum seekers. But any country that already has had a doubling of asylum requests wouldn’t be obligated to take in more people.
Wow! It doesn't help that they are such poor guests...
That is terribly true; perhaps not for all, or many even, but enough to put a sour note in an already harsh reality.
Not to mention the fact that some of these countries have recently been undergoing some extremely severe economic woes of their own. Refugees in these quantities are overtaxing already bankrupt places like Greece, for heavens sake! What is a country supposed to do when they have given all they have to give? What an incredibly difficult situation.
Yes, an incredibly difficult situation...
Sorry - lock their azzes out and send them back to fix the problems in their own countries.
I cannot see this decision being a positive influence on those already considering whether they will stay in the EU or not.
I wonder if this type of ruling will simply result in the disbanding of the EU . Its not like they have a way of keeping things together by force , right ?
I wondered the same. I mean how exactly would they force these countries to give them the money, for disallowed refugees? I don't get it.
The history of the EU began with wanting to be like the US . But they have moved far from that initial concept . And never really achieved the same kind of "unity" .