On 2024-03-06, the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner criticized the UK's Rwanda migration policy as 'dangerous', highlighting it as an example of states undermining collective human rights safeguards. Concurrently, the EU's Von der Leyen group is proposing migration reforms inspired by Rwanda-style asylum schemes. The European People's Party (EPP), a major center-right grouping in the European Parliament, has suggested significant changes to the EU's asylum system on 2024-03-07, including deporting asylum seekers to 'safe third countries', a concept reminiscent of the 2016 EU-Turkey statement. This reflects a major policy shift in Germany and across the EU on immigration, with Germany's CDU party also endorsing the idea in its new party program.
The European People's Party (EPP), the European Parliament's main center-right grouping, has proposed major changes to the European Union (EU)'s asylum system, including the possibility of deporting asylum seekers to "safe third countries." https://t.co/rR6x4JDRmy
Big shift in Germany and across EU on immigration (and echoes of what the UK government has been pushing with Rwanda). Particularly interesting background story https://t.co/mdhgrCEeYt
EPP and Ruanda-model For 🇪🇺EP elections, @EPP has now adopted the idea of safe third country arrangements (as in 2016 EU-Turkey statement) to reduce irregular migration; as has previously @CDU in its new party program. In this shift, the debate in Germany (where this was… https://t.co/T72WPw02zQ https://t.co/qhLf2xsvso
Von der Leyen’s EU group plans Rwanda-style asylum schemes https://t.co/Rm5PV5R5fX
NEW: European conservatives want asylum-seekers transferred to third countries https://t.co/cEsT9gA2EV
EU's Von der Leyen group proposes controversial migration reforms inspired by Rwanda policy https://t.co/nYzxbQgAv9 https://t.co/Q6MlbqjeMd
The Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner savages the UK's "dangerous" Rwanda scheme which it singles out as an example of states "dismantling collective human rights safeguards [and] eroding legal and democratic checks that protect all our rights" https://t.co/gxsqOYxDmg