Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256641 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comment No. 46/2020
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
On 23 September 2020, the European Commission presented its long-awaited draft of a new migration and asylum package to overcome the protracted blockade in this policy area. Central elements are the planned preliminary examinations of asylum applications at the external borders of the European Union (EU) and a new division of labour among the member states, which in the future will have the choice between accepting asylum seekers and returning those who have been rejected. The risk of human rights violations inherent in these suggestions is immense. However, since this also applies to the status quo - as the situation on the Greek islands shows - the pros and cons of the reform proposal must be carefully weighed up. Support for the reform package can only be justified if the combination of restrictive and protection-oriented elements, as intended by the Commission, is maintained in the intergovernmental negotiations.
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Research Report

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