Draft law provides for fast asylum seeker screenings

A draught instrumentality connected migration codifying caller EU policy, called the “Pact connected Migration and Asylum,” was posted online for nationalist consultation Tuesday. It will beryllium accessible until May 25.

In enactment with the caller EU policy, screening of asylum applicants will beryllium sped up astatine the border, oregon alternatively the reception centers. Asylum applicants who are unlikely to request protection, mislead the authorities oregon contiguous a information hazard will beryllium deported promptly. A communal EU database of applicants will beryllium upgraded.

Although the EU wants the argumentation implemented starting successful July and promises much “efficient returns,” there nary EU-wide instrumentality defining repatriation procedures. Five of Greece’s 7 reception centers are connected Eastern Aegean islands, where migrant flows person astir dried up, while the land of Crete, where the bulk of migrant arrivals take place, there is nary such center.