After two days of back-and-forth negotiations, the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council and the European Parliament reached agreement on the main political elements of five key regulations of the Migration and Asylum Pact, which will completely overhaul the EU’s legal framework. on asylum and migration. “December 20, 2023 will go down in history. The day the EU reached a historic agreement on a new set of rules to manage migration and asylum. Europe has defied the odds once again. I am very proud of the fact that, with the pact on migration and asylum, we produce and provide solutions”. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, wrote in X.
“Migration is a European challenge that requires European solutions. Every year, hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants undertake dangerous journeys to reach our borders. They are often victims of criminals, smugglers and traffickers who lure them with false promises of safe passage and extort money from them. Member States at our external borders have to manage illegal immigration, often compromising their border protection,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “At the beginning of my mandate, I committed to establishing a system common framework for managing migration in the EU. This pact on migration and asylum will guarantee an effective European response to this European challenge. This means that it will be Europeans who decide who comes to the EU and who can stay there, not traffickers. It means protecting those in need,” he continued.
There was no shortage of comments from Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi: “We brought the issue of migration back to the center of the European agenda and thanks to the ability to find the right balance between responsibility and solidarity we were able to move forward and conclude a negotiation that had been paralyzed for years. The approval of the Pact is a great success for Europe and for Italy, which can now count on new rules to manage migratory flows and combat human traffickers.” “The Pact is the result of long negotiations in which Italy has always played a leading role in establishing a balanced solution that no longer makes EU border countries, particularly exposed to migratory pressure, feel alone”, added the head of the Ministry of the Interior.
Source: IL Tempo
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