Brussels makes deportation centers outside the EU possible

Tightening of asylum law

EU approves deportation centers – outside of their borders

The EU Commission submits plans for a stricter right of migration. This is how deportation should be simplified – even with highly controversial means.

The commissioner described it in advance on X: “We introduce a real European return system.” On Tuesday, the Austrian Magnus Brunner, responsible for the Interior and Migration, presented the suggestions for stricter slackers in the EU. Accordingly, “return centers outside the EU” should also be allowed in the future.

In a press conference in Strasbourg, Brunner spoke of a “new, innovative solution for the Member States”. The Austrian Christian Democrat, previously Minister of Finance in Vienna, has been an interior commissioner of the EU since the previous year. A choice with careful. Austria’s Christian Democratic ÖVP is one of the sharpest critics of European asylum policy. After years of Viennese criticism from the side edge, Brunner in Brussels now has to deliver solutions himself.

The plans of the EU Commission therefore provide, among other things:

Europe’s Christian Democrats welcomed the advance. “The proposal is the missing key element of the asylum and migration package and is also essential to restore a functioning Schengen area,” said CDU MEP Lena Düpont.

The SPD European Lamentator Birgit Sippel, on the other hand, warned of an “mistake if the EU would orientate itself on the now set program between the United Kingdom and Rwanda or the Agreement between Italy and Albania. These programs are legally questionable and waste amounts of tax money”.

Sippel called on the EU countries to implement the agreements sealed last year into a common European asylum system (GEAS). At that time, the EU countries had agreed on a new asylum law after years of proposals, which, among other things, provides for the establishment of asylum centers at the EU’s external borders.

The implementation would also defuse the debate about the rejection of refugees from the CDU party leader Friedrich Merz at Germany’s external borders, to which the SPD and Union had agreed in their exploratory paper. The announcement had also met with displeasure with the EU neighbor. Brunner’s Christian Democratic party friends in Austria were one of the sharpest critics of the rejections.