Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Kosovo, Morocco and Tunisia. If the member states of the European Union (EU) and the European Parliament agree in the coming months, the nationals of these countries who wish will have very little chance of being considered refugees. This is in any case what the European Commission proposed on Wednesday April 16.
While in the first quarter, the irregular entries in the EU continued their withdrawal with a fall of 31 % of clandestine entries according to the Frontex agency, the community executive proposed to the twenty-seven legislation to hasten the establishment of the asylum and migration pact, which will be effective from June 2026, by authorizing the application without delay of the new accelerated procedure-three months to the place of six months- “Whose asylum requests are likely to be unfounded”.
Accelerated processing of requests
To help states identify these requests “Unpaid”the community executive has unveiled one of the novelties of the pact: a European list of “Country of safe origin”whose nationals will be able to see their requests processed in an accelerated manner. This list also includes countries already mentioned, all candidates for EU entry, such as the Balkan states, Moldova and Turkey.
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Source: Lemonde