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The European Parliament will vote today on comprehensive new immigration laws. Ylva Johansson, the home affairs commissioner who was also one of the biggest drivers of this legislation, said that with reforms aimed at managing migration, the Union was taking a step towards neutralizing the populist far-right.
But the package of laws remains controversial even among supportive politicians. Critics say the new laws do nothing to stop the ever-increasing death toll on migration routes to the EU.
"This is an adaptation of what the extreme right has been asking for years. Can we find something even more inhuman? It is taking some of the worst practices in the EU and institutionalizing it," said Swedish MEP Malin Björk.
On the eve of the vote, representatives of 161 civil society organizations called on MEPs to reject the legislation, saying it has been problematic from the start.
Stephanie Pope, Oxfam's EU migration expert, said the package had less to do with the human rights of people who are forced to migrate as a result of desperate conditions in their own countries, and more to do with prevention and deportation. Theirs.
"The legislation, which comes to a vote two months before the European elections in June, is highly political and based on zero evidence," she added.
The sweeping package of laws, first proposed in 2018, is designed to speed up asylum processes, setting a deadline of just 12 weeks.
The laws will also introduce a unified system of central checks at all points on the EU's external border, as well as a "solidarity" mechanism sought by Greece and Italy to allow overburdened countries to process asylum move to another member state.
If passed, the legislation would also create Eurodac, a central database that would allow member states to see if someone has applied for asylum in another country.
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