Unplug an entity that was, anyway, clinically dead.
This is essentially what the European Commission is proposing.
Its president, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday before the European Parliament:
“I can announce that we are going to abolish the Dublin regulation and replace it with a new European system of governance of migration (…).
There will be a new strong mechanism of solidarity ”
, she added, a week before the presentation by the Commission of yet another reform of migration policy in the EU.
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Dublin?
It is this mechanism which means that an asylum seeker depends administratively on the first European country where he registered.
It worked pretty much back in the days when migration was reasonable.
But given the migration crisis that the EU is going through, it is nothing more than a legal fiction.
Overwhelmed by the influx of migrants, Greece, Italy and Spain are unlikely to take charge, as a bonus, of outflows on behalf of other countries
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