Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, this Thursday was “sure” Twenty-seven will reach an agreement that respects the “right balance” between the responsibility and solidarity of all community partners for reception immigrants when one of them encounters excessive pressure on his border; necessary agreement for start negotiations with european room and unlock common asylum policy reform.
“We are in the best position to find a deal,” Marlaska told the media in Luxembourg. said. interior ministers meeting EU where countries hope to close two negotiating powers for the control and treatment of asylum seekers arriving irregularly on Community territory.
“We’re just a little bit far from finding the exact balance between the two principles that underpin everything,” he continued. The “responsibility” that countries like Germany, France or Belgium demand from their first line of entry partners like Spain and Italyso they can consolidate control of the outer border and take on some of the burden of accepting refugees by processing all the files on the border and the “solidarity” the south demands of them.
The final draft of the proposal, which Europa Press has access to, makes a point. Resettlement of at least 30,000 migrants per year and a financial contribution of at least 600 million euros per year to the solidarity reserve of governments that refuse to grant asylum to their corresponding part, which in practice means: For each rejected transfer, they have to pay 20,000 Euros in compensation. Alternatively, the proposal envisages a contribution to useful materials for the management and control of flows above the estimated compensation value.
In this regard, Marlaska showed that he was “confident” that the 27 will reach a deal this Thursday, because the “momentum” came later. five years of negotiations and because, he warned, “if we don’t get it, we’re all going to come out as losers.” “We have worked hard in the last months, we have no other choice,” he said.
Spain From the very beginning of the negotiation, it defended the distribution system of compulsory admission quotas, like other countries bordering the EU. Mediterrenian, but considers the proposed mechanism acceptable as it constitutes a “mandatory but flexible liability”. He also denied that the new regulations are opening the door. creation of detention centers at the outer border so that entry countries can comply with the obligation to process asylum claims at the border.