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What are the EU’s 'safe country' proposals for asylum seekers?
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27/05/2025
What are the EU’s 'safe country' proposals for asylum seekers?
The European Commission has put forward two plans to overhaul asylum processes amid a charged political atmosphere over irregular migration.
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The EU is looking to move asylum processing and responsibilities beyond its borders.
00:08
To this end, the Commission is working on two plans.
00:11
Firstly, in April, it adopted a plan to designate so-called safe countries of origin
00:16
to fast-track asylum applications from nationals of these countries
00:20
so they could be returned more quickly.
00:22
These include the EU candidate countries and seven others deemed safe.
00:27
Last week, it proposed changing another concept, the so-called safe third countries,
00:32
with an eye on relocating the processing of asylum claims.
00:36
This would allow EU countries to reject an application
00:39
and then forcibly send people to a country with which they have no connection.
00:43
The third countries have not been named but should protect asylum seekers from persecution and serious harm,
00:49
not deport asylum seekers and provide a functioning asylum system.
00:53
The idea is to manage asylum applications more effectively.
00:56
Well, the aim of both proposals is indeed to improve both the processing of asylum claims
01:05
when they can be seen as manifestly unfounded for various reasons
01:09
and at the same time make sure that those who do not have a right to stay within the European Union
01:14
but are already in the European Union are effectively returned.
01:17
So both share the aim of making the procedures both asylum and return more efficient, more effective,
01:24
but of course also more implementable for the member states so that we can kind of bring back order and humanity
01:30
to the common European asylum and migration policies.
01:33
The Commission has repeatedly stressed this will accelerate asylum processes and reduce pressure on asylum systems
01:39
while respecting fundamental rights.
01:41
However, critics of the proposals have argued that they risk having the opposite effect,
01:45
stating they raise ethical and legal questions.
01:48
From a human rights perspective, the risks are already very clear.
01:52
It's going to make it harder for people to access fair and full asylum procedures even if they have very real protection needs.
01:59
It increases the risk of refoulement or people being sent back to danger and their ability is restricted to challenge that decision from Europe
02:07
so they may be sent back to danger before their appeal has been heard.
02:10
And lastly, it increases the risk of arbitrary automatic detention in third countries.
02:15
You can already see with the EU's engagement with countries like Tunisia or Libya or Egypt
02:19
that it has very little willingness or ability to monitor and enforce human rights in those partner countries.
02:24
These new proposals are not yet set in stone.
02:27
They will now be voted on by the European Parliament and the Council for approval.
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