MEPs approve list of "safe countries" excluded from asylum - DutchNews.nl
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The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU. The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. The Netherlands scrapped its own list of safe countries last September, following a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice that placed...

The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.

The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    111·
    19 days ago

    European xenophobia is just fucking pathetic. Pathetic. On the one hand we make a big stink about the rules based order and liberal values. And in the other we make a mockery of all of that to appease the worst among us. Pathetic.