The Swedish EU presidency is bargaining away rights and punching holes in EU law as means to convince front-line member states like Italy and Greece to take on more responsibilities when it comes to processing asylum claims.
or will she put them into indefinite taxpayer funded accommodation? never returned anywhere because they don t have the agreements with europe in place, neither returned nor given century, sanctuary never having the case resolved. just forever in asylum accommodation and hotels. she may not call it the asylum system but thousands more people are still going to be in it nevertheless. joining me now is catherine woollard, she is the secretary general of the european council on refugees and exiles. good to have you on the program. we will talk about where these people might be held to where they may be sent to in a second. 0n the surface, why would you come to the uk if you risk immediate return without any application to stay, why would you pay thousands of pounds to pay for that to cross the channel, what would you do it? for that to cross the channel, what would you do it? would you do it? for the same reasons that would you do it? for the same reasons that people would you do i
German ideas of possibly offshoring asylum to countries outside Europe are unworkable, say civil society. The comments follow reports that the German government is exploring options of getting north African states to process asylum claims of those rescued.
A big step up in requests for asylum last year has put one of the EU's touchiest issues, migration, back in the limelight. One idea is to leverage visa, aid and trade policy to get third countries to take back deportees.