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EU LEADERS SET COURSE FOR TOUGHER POLICY TO SEND BACK IRREGULAR MIGRANTS

By Jan Strupczewski
October 18, 202412:13 AM GMT+2Updated 2 days ago
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Item 1 of 5 Migrants sit in the forest, after crossing the Belarusian-Polish
border, near Grudki, Poland, June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
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 * EU leaders want new, strong law to expel illegal migrants
 * EU backs Poland's efforts to keep out migrants sent by Russia, Belarus

BRUSSELS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to use
all their leverage, including trade, development aid and visa policy, to speed
up returns of migrants illegally entering the bloc and asked the European
Commission to urgently draft a law.
Immigration is a highly sensitive topic in most of the bloc's 27 member states,
even though irregular migrants arriving in Europe last year were a third of the
1 million seen during the crisis in 2015, and numbers fell further this year.
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Leaky external EU borders are destroying the EU's Schengen passport-free travel
area, fuelling the rise of far-right parties and affecting election results
across Europe, making migration a key political problem.
"The European Council calls for determined action at all levels to facilitate,
increase and speed up returns from the European Union using all relevant EU
policies instruments and tools, including diplomacy, development, trade and
visas," the leaders said in written conclusions of their meeting.
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Out of 484,000 non-EU citizens ordered to leave the EU last year, only 20%
returned home. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the
Commission was working to improve this number and would soon present a law to
deal with it.


EU LEADERS BACK POLAND AGAINST MIGRATION 'HYBRID ATTACK'

The leaders also supported Poland in its plan to temporarily suspend accepting
asylum applications from migrants pushed across the country's eastern border by
Belarus and Russia.

While many non-governmental organisations say the decision to refuse asylum
applications is a violation of the EU's charter of fundamental rights, von der
Leyen said it was legal as a temporary response to a hybrid attack by Minsk and
Moscow.
"Russia and Belarus...cannot be allowed to abuse our values, including the right
to asylum, and to undermine our democracies," EU leaders said in the
conclusions. "The European Council expresses solidarity with Poland. ...
Exceptional situations require appropriate measures."

In July Finland, which faced a similar challenge from migrants pushed through
its border with Russia, also suspended accepting asylum applications.


RETURN HUBS

EU leaders also discussed setting up "return hubs" in countries outside the EU,
where migrants whose EU asylum bids were refused could await deportation to
their home country, providing it was safe to return them there.
Von der Leyen said the discussion on how to organise such hubs was still in
progress to establish what third country could be considered safe, how long a
migrant could be kept in a hub and what to do if a return to the home country
was not possible.

The right-wing government of Italy has already set up such a "return hub" in
Albania, and the conservative Dutch government is considering sending rejected
African asylum seekers to Uganda.
Not all leaders were enthusiastic about the idea.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that for a country as big as Germany, asylum
processing hubs outside the bloc would only be able to handle a fraction of
requests and that a law on fast returns would be more helpful.
Scholz and other leaders also stressed the EU badly needed migrants as the EU
population ages and pay-as-you-go pensions systems come under increasing strain.
Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said migration was a positive
phenomenon and something that Spain and other European economies desperately
needed to prop up ailing birth rates and their welfare states.
"Do we want a prosperous and therefore open Europe, or do we want a poor and
therefore closed Europe?" Sanchez said. "We need to address the migration
phenomenon with future generations in mind, not the next elections."

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Additional reporting by Aislinn Laing in Madrid, Bart Meijer, Ingrid Melander,
Charlotte van Campenhout, Miranda Murray, Makini Brice, Angeliki Koutantou;
Writing by Jan Strupczewski; Editing by Sonali Paul, Sharon Singleton and Leslie
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Jan is the Deputy Bureau Chief for France and Benelux, running the Reuters
office in Brussels. He has been covering European Union policy, focusing on
economics, since 2005 after a five year assignment in Stockholm where he covered
tech and telecoms stocks, the central bank and general news. Jan joined Reuters
in 1993 in Warsaw from the main Polish TV news programme "Wiadomosci", where he
was a reporter and anchor for the morning news edition. Jan won the Reuters
Journalist of the Year award in 2007 in the Scoop of the Year category, a second
time in 2010 for his coverage of the euro zone sovereign debt crisis and for the
third time in 2011, this time as part of the Brussels team, for the Story of the
Year. A Polish national, Jan graduated from Warsaw University with a Master’s in
English literature. He is a keen sailor, photographer and bushcraft enthusiast.

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