Italy pushing for Dublin Rules reform

Italy pushing for Dublin Rules reform

(ANSAmed) – BRUSSELS, APRIL 27 – Italy, Greece, Malta,

Cyprus, and Spain will be teaming up to apply greater pressure

in talks over reforms of the Dublin Rules.

They are asking for less weight of migration flows to be

placed on the shoulders of the first countries the migrants

arrive in.

Now that talks on the proposal by the Bulgarian presidency of

the Council of the EU are beginning in earnest, the five

countries sent their EU partner nations and the European

Commission a document with a joint position in which they asked

for the ”efforts of countries in the front line for the control

of the EU’s external borders, subject to migration pressure, and

search and rescue activities at sea be recognized in the

regulation” and so that ”procedural weight will be

alleviated”.

In the thirteen points of the three-page document, there is a

focus on the need to ”reduce the responsibility” of the member

state in which the migrant first entered to two years instead of

the ten currently required by the proposal made by the Bulgarian

presidency of the Council of the EU.

”Solidarity measures must have a positive, immediate

impact,” the first countries wrote, noting that ”some of the

measures called for – such as resettlement and the 30,000-euro

contribution in place of relocation of asylum seekers – would

not help to alleviate, in the immediate future, the weight on

the country of first entrance.”

Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, and Spain would also like to

extend the range of refugees that can be included in the

relocation program.

Perplexity was also expressed on the relocation mechanism of

the Bulgarian proposal.

While the five countries are pushing for an automatic,

obligatory system, the revised draft calls for the possibility

of the European Commission proposes to the Council to activate

the solidarity mechanism only when faced with a flow of over

160% compared with the previous year. However, the system would

become obligatory only with a one over 180%, so long as EU

partners do not vote against it (ANSAmed).

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