By Marcel Leubecher, Christoph B. Schiltz
(Die Welt)
Hope gives life.
But it is not eternal.
Europe was to provide an answer to the migration problem before the end of 2020. However, even under the German Presidency of the EU, the long-awaited adoption of a functional Common European Asylum System (CEAS) has not yet taken place. materialized.
In Berlin and Brussels, no one believes this will happen during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council, which ends on June 31, 2021.
This small state - where only around 1,500 people apply for asylum each year - does not even mention asylum reform in Europe on the priority list of its presidency.
Either way, negotiations will continue.
Ahead of the EU's Council of Interior Ministers, which will take place next March, the Portuguese want to put on the table new compromise proposals on the issue of the distribution of refugees in the future.
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However, no solution is yet in sight, as in
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