EU to punish member-States that Reject Refugee Quotas

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The European Commission has opened an investigation for what is says are 40 violations of the right to asylum provision that affects 19 countries, including Spain. This was confirmed this morning by the EU executive. In addition to Spain, they are investigating Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and Hungary, among other European countries. Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are not affected, since they are not within the European system in relation to asylum. These investigations were made public hours before the special summit in Brussels that will bring together the heads of state and government of the EU to address the refugee crisis. The Commission considers that the members being investigated have not followed their national law on recognizing refugees, minimum standards governing the procedure to recognize the right of asylum and the reception conditions for asylum seekers. “There is no point in discussing new rules in immigration policy while existing law is not being followed,” said a European source as quoted by the German newspaper Die Welt. The first step will be sending a warning to the affected States, which will have two months to respond. If States do not adapt their legislation to Community law during that period their case may be brought to the European court of justice. Leaders want to change immigration policy to avoid negative members EU leaders are set to meet on Wednesday to try to further negotiations on the current immigration and asylum policies. A few hours after their interior ministers closed the deal to relocate the 120,000 migrants who are already waiting for a decision, the heads of state and government will meet in Brussels to discuss more widely how to deal with the refugee crisis, the most serious issue in the EU since World War II. The thorniest part of the negotiation is the quotas already determined for asylum seekers, which officials may address as part of Europe’s immigration policy. Along with that there are the issues of  border control and assistance to Syria’s neighbouring countries, hosting more than four million of people fleeing the war that began more than four years ago. In this event, the second monographic summit on migration so far this year, leaders have on the table an improvement in allocations for those countries bordering Syria, mainly Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, as a way to address the care for refugees. Since last week the European Commission approved an allocation of 1 billion euros from the Community budget to help Turkey. That country is now home to a large part of the Syrian refugees arriving in Europe. Ironically, Turkey is also the main supporter of terrorism in the region. The Erdogan regime was caught aiding ISIS terrorists with weapons and training. The EU meeting will also serve to verify to what extent the controversial decision to divide the number of refugees in quotas will be welcome or not and whether those quotas will be identical to the proposal of the proposal presented by the Commission. It is assumed that the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, shows rejection to the plan and presents what he considers a solution: better control of external borders around the EU. Differences between member-States are clear according to statements heard earlier this week by people like Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, who says his country will come to court to answer the distribution of asylum quotas adopted by the Ministers of Interior of the EU. “We will act in two directions: first, to introduce charges in court in Luxembourg and second, we will not apply the decision by ministers of Interior,” he said to reporters. Beyond this cyclical pattern of distribution, representatives will also discuss a permanent mechanism that the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, presented to member-States three weeks ago. Juncture’s proposal intends to make the relocation of migrants automatic when future crises are triggered. The countries of Eastern Europe and others such as Finland oppose sharing the burden of distributing refugees so that a country does not need to assume that responsibility alone.

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