Wide-ranging reforms for asylum laws proposed

WIDE-RANGING reforms to the asylum and refugee procedures have been proposed by the European Commission.

These are designed to prevent situations like last week’s when disputes left illegal migrants clinging to tuna nets in the Mediterranean for three days. They are also aimed at ensuring every EU member state takes its fair share of refugees and that higher common standards are applied to stop “asylum shopping”.

Greater cooperation should also reduce the numbers of illegal migrants that go missing each year in the EU after their request to stay has been rejected.