The need for solidarity in EU asylum policy
At a Glance
23-09-2020
In early September 2020, a fire in the over-crowded migrant camp of Moria in Greece pushed thousands of people onto the streets, exacerbating the already dire conditions faced by asylum-seekers and migrants. The incident also shows the need to find a solution to a crisis of solidarity in EU asylum policy that has remained unresolved since the unprecedented influx of migrants into the EU in 2015. The European Commission presented a new Pact on Asylum and Migration on 23 September 2020. In that, it puts forward a compromise on solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility for asylum-seekers among EU Member States.
At a Glance
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- Aegean Islands
- asylum seeker
- economic geography
- EU migration policy
- Europe
- GEOGRAPHY
- Greece
- international law
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- Italy
- LAW
- migrant
- migration
- migration control
- political geography
- refugee
- regions of EU Member States
- resettlement of persons
- right of asylum
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS