France wants greater "
European solidarity
" on the processing of asylum requests as well as on "
escorts to the borders
", declared the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on Wednesday September 23, the day when Brussels presents its thorny migration reform .
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"
The migration issue can only be resolved at European level
", underlined the Minister of the Interior on France Inter, before the repeatedly rejected presentation of the "
new Pact on migration and asylum
" by the European Commission.
Five years after the 2015 migration crisis, the committee is indeed planning a “
compulsory solidarity mechanism
” for all EU countries with the countries of first arrival of migrants such as Greece, Italy or Malta, when the latter are "
Under pressure
".
“
We always want European solidarity.
There is no reason why only Italy, France and Germany, roughly speaking, with Greece, share this solidarity,
”he insisted, explaining in particular that the relocation commitments in Europe were to be shared by "the
whole European Union
".
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The new European text, which will be the subject of discussions for "a
few months
", according to the minister, plans in particular to replace the Dublin regulation, keystone of the current system, which crystallized the tensions by weighing on the first country of arrival of a migrant responsibility for his asylum application.
We must "
stop Dublin
", a mechanism that "
does not work well
", he said.
“
80,000 asylum requests in France in 2015, 135,000 last year.
If we do not have a European response and each country does what it wants in its own corner, we have difficulty processing these asylum requests
”, whether“
quickly, because we have to. asylum seekers
”, or“
in the deportation to the borders
”for those who are rejected of their request, continued Mr. Darmanin, insisting on the fact that France was often a country of“
second request
”.
“This
explains why France has experienced a very strong increase
” in asylum requests in recent years, he added.
In 2019, the “
Dublinés
”, these migrants who had passed through a first European country before coming to file asylum elsewhere in Europe, represented 35,000 of the 138,000 asylum seekers in France.
The Minister of the Interior therefore wishes that aspirants for refugee status can submit their asylum application for France directly in Mediterranean countries, "
but remain in Spain or Italy in reception centers
" while awaiting a response. .