Irish Examiner view: Migration policy lacks fairness

EU Migration Pact

IE ARCHIVE STOCK GENERIC IMAGE EUROPEAN UNION 05/07/2020.

The European Commission’s proposal to overhaul the EU's migration policy by getting member states to agree to take in asylum seekers or take charge of sending back those refused asylum is a retreat from the core principle of solidarity that has underpinned the European Union since its foundation.

The so-called Migration Pact has some good elements: It emphasises the speedier return of economic migrants to their place of origin when asylum claims are rejected, the strengthening of the EU’s external borders, and the creation of new legal routes for the resettlement of refugees within the EU.