Reforming European refugee regime to be long, “grievous” process, says official
Budapest (MTI) – Reforming the common European refugee and asylum regime will take a long time and will be a “grievous” process, the director of Hungary’s immigration authority BÁH told an international conference on migration in Budapest on Wednesday.
The common legal framework on the regime lacks provisions on protection and contains directives mostly on rights and guarantees, Zsuzsanna Végh said in her opening address to the two-day conference.
It contains only a few provisions on responsibilities and no provisions on sanctions at all without which the current migration situation cannot be resolved, she said at the conference focusing on possible solutions in tackling the migrant crisis.
Working out a solution that would be acceptable to each member state is a rather difficult task because they are driven by rather different national interests, Végh said.
She called for a reform of the EU’s Dublin Regulations which she said were “inapt” since the system had not been designed to contain provisions for a migration crisis situation.
Citing EU statistics by Eurostat, Vegh noted that close to 2 million migrants arrived illegally in Europe last year, of whom 1.4 million applied for asylum, twice as many as in 2014.
The number of migrants entering Hungary illegally was over 400,000 last year, going up from 42,000 in 2014, she said, adding that BÁH received 177,000 asylum applications in 2015.
The conference is organised in partnership of BÁH, the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Hungarian law enforcement science association.
Participants represent eight countries including Macedonia, Turkey, Sweden and officials of the European border agency Frontex.
Photo: MTI
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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